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The other day I received an unexpected surprise in my email inbox – “Twitter Newsletter 2010 - Edition #1.” For Twitter, this was a smart move, especially considering all the data floating around out there [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, March 10, 2010
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"The Myth of Multitasking" is an often-discussed topic these days, for large corporations and small business alike. With the rapid changes in the way we view business, especially for the self-employed, it seems impractical—if not impossible, to focus on one task at a time. To be honest, the idea of single-task focusing sounded like a [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, March 4, 2010
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Ah, yes, you are self-employed. What a bold move! You’re an army of one, and most days, you feel like it! Even with help from a few trusted partners, you still feel that the weight of the world—cleverly disguised as your business—on your shoulders.
But wait…wasn’t the freedom of setting your own schedule and the chance [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, February 5, 2010
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“Entrepreneurs take on risks and commit extensive energies to make dreams come true.” John Crites, President/CEO Triangle Technology Executives Council
The context surrounding that quote can be read here, and it addresses the upsides, pitfalls, and definition of what it means to be an entrepreneur.
Since we can all look up the word to get a formalized definition, [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, January 24, 2010
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I heard on NPR once (okay, maybe it was one of those radio pop psychiatrists, but let’s say it was NPR), that when faced with an empty public restroom with multiple stalls, people will almost always bypass the first stall. Their reasoning? They assume that everyone chooses the first stall and therefore it will be [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 31, 2009
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As small business owners, many of us feel like we never get a day off. Sure we may take a day here and there or even try to take a real get-away vacation from our businesses, but work is never far from our minds. Last week I drove with my friend Lisa to Connecticut, where [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, November 30, 2009
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) just released their 2008 annual report on the state of entrepreneurship in the United States, with interesting results. Perhaps due to the economic crisis, the instance of entrepreneurship activity (high early-stage entrepreneurship prevalence rates, high venture capital investment and significantly higher levels of high-expectation entrepreneurship), is up across the board, [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 24, 2009
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