The Business Book Blog Tour has arrived!
Barry Moltz has put together an honest and revealing look at entrepreneurship. He has peeled back the onion and shows us some of the issues that entrepreneurs face that are not in text or how-to books. This is entrepreneurship in the raw!
Continue reading You need to be a little crazy?my thoughts on this book
Please stop by tomorrow. This site will host the Business Book Blog Tour. For a preview go to today’s stop at Ensight.
Whenever I talk to entrepreneurs, serve as their consultant, or teach them in my classes I always have one consistent message. They have to become financially literate to improve their chances of success in their ventures. In fact, I believe this so strongly that I wrote a book on the topic! Bradley Feld has written a summary of some of what he believes are the key aspects of sound financial management for entrepreneurs. Most of what he writes is right on target.
There is an excellent article by an entrepreneur named Alan J. Smith over at Kauffman Foundation?s EntreWorld web site on what lessons he learned from exiting his own business. One cannot over emphasize the importance of planning ahead for an exit, being fully educated about the options and their consequences, and being fully engaged in the actual exit process.
Continue reading Exiting your entrepreneurial venture: seller beware
Dr. Smolira has an insightful critique of the cash flow board game at his web log. Check it out!
Come and visit the first stop of the Business Book Blog Tour. Barry Moltz is visiting A Penny For… today.
Professor Bainbridge makes an interesting post in light of our discussion at this site on the differences between publicly held and privately owned businesses. While I have argued that entrepreneurs can, and should, integrate their values into their businesses, Professor Bainbridge argues that a public corporation is not a moral actor and cannot be held responsible as an entity.
Come one and come all! Join in the business book blog tour next week. This segment of the tour will be featuring Barry Moltz’s book “You Need to be a Little Crazy”. The tour will visit the Entrepreneurial Mind on Thursday, February 5th. Barry will be making stops at my site throughout the day to join in the discussion on his book and his premise that you need to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. It should be great fun! For all of the stops on this book tour next week, visit this site.
As the trial of Martha Stewart gets underway, it might be wise to look beyond the surface a bit. Yes, this is can be viewed as a story of greed, elitism, class warfare gone mad, jealousy, or simply corporate corruption. All of these spins have already been put on Martha?s case.
No matter if you are a software start-up, trying to build a consulting business, or creating a service business of any kind, you should take a look at this posting at startupskills.com. For any business that is selling services or software, this article correctly argues that you need to remember that you are not selling your software or service, but rather a solution to a potential customer?s problem. Their problem is something tangible and real to them. Your software or services usually are not. Therefore, sell to what they understand and to what will move them to act: a solution to their problem.