Culture is a Key Means to Reaching Your Goals

As someone who has written quite a bit about small business ethics, there is a trend that I find to be quite encouraging.  Entrepreneurs are paying a lot more attention to the cultures they create in their businesses.

The culture of a business defines and shapes how a company’s owners and employees act, think, and feel as they go about their work.  Culture sets the behavioral expectations and ethical standards in a company.  It guides how employees are expected to interact with each other, with customers, with suppliers, and so forth.

Businesses with well-developed cultures tend to have a stronger sense of ethical awareness among their employees.  All things being equal, these companies are also are more successful than those that do not intentionally build a strong culture.

So how should an entrepreneur go about building a strong culture in a business? Continue reading Culture is a Key Means to Reaching Your Goals

Entrepreneurial Career Requires Perseverance and Patience

Many of the young entrepreneurs I work with have the goal of becoming serial entrepreneurs.  They want a career that includes starting many new ventures.

However, what many of them fail to recognize is that becoming a successful serial entrepreneur means that they must be able to be a successful entrepreneur many times over.  Continue reading Entrepreneurial Career Requires Perseverance and Patience

How to Quit Your Day Job

Tony Bakker and his business partner Ryan Beuschel faced a challenge that confronts many first time entrepreneurs.  Although both of them had good jobs in the music industry, they wanted to pursue an exciting business concept they developed called SixStringCountry.com.

The risk of trading a steady paycheck versus the financial uncertainty of an early startup has deterred many would-be entrepreneurs from pursuing their business ideas. Continue reading How to Quit Your Day Job