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10 Steps To Turn Your Passion Into Your Business

Matthew Larson is the chief of product design for one of the surf industry's most exciting new brands, Matuse, which designs incredible, high-end wetsuits. Through following these 10 ideas that helped Matuse build its brand, you'll learn how to turn your passion--whether it's for surfing or something else--into a successful business.READ»

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).READ»

Angel Investors Outshine VCs For Entrepreneurs

VCs do not support an entrepreneur in a garage with a vision or an entrepreneur who just got his first product out the door. VCs focus on rapidly growing businesses that can be scaled in the very near future--so they can simply cash out.READ»

The Refrigerator of Success

What do you or your team do when you hit an obstacle on the road to success?READ»

Turning a Part-time Passion Into a Full-Time Enterprise

A part-time business gives you the opportunity to develop your business model and learn from your mistakes. As your business grows you reach a pivotal moment: Do you maintain the status quo or push the envelope and go full time?READ»

Celebrate Your Freedom to Create a New Business

July 4th is the perfect time to realize you are Free to create a business.READ»

The Entrepreneur Way Of Life

This is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur. Why? Because everyone across the board is in the same boat.READ»

Nonsense At Work

Keep the customer passionate:Customer satisfaction is only the start of the customer relationship.  Customer loyalty is where the serious money is made.Let me explain using two examples.  I had a problem with my phone ...READ»

No Pain, No Gain

If you want to succeed, don't look back.READ»

The Real Challenge In Our Financial System Today: Who is the End and Who is the Means?

When I was involved in the venture capital world helping to fund a number of technology startups, one thing that struck me as significant but never voiced by anyone was the disconnect of objectives between the two parties in the ...READ»

Ketchup? My Deliverables Don’t Need Any Ketchup!

I ordered a New York Strip steak at a restaurant called Recipes Remembered. After the server brought it to the table, she asked if I needed anything. And that’s when I made the mistake of asking for ketchup. At first, I wasn’t ...READ»

How Thriller Novelist J.C. Hutchins Turned a Passionate Fan Base Into Successful Book Sales

Does an author need a publisher anymore? Are the rules of book publishing crumbling? Successful thriller writer J.C. Hutchins shares his thoughts.READ»

Brand Yourself and 4 Other Tips for Success From The Sartorialist

Scott Schuman is The Sartorialist, a fashion blogger with a lot more up his tailored coat sleeves than street shots of pretty people. This August, he released a compilation book of his photos aptly titled, "The Sartorialist." In honor of Fashion Week, we share with you his nuggets of wisdom and a few peeks at his book.READ»

Career Advice from Carisa Bianchi, President of TBWA\Chiat\Day

Carisa Bianchi became President of the Los Angeles branch of TBWA\Chiat\Day in 2005, after more than twenty years in the advertising industry.READ»

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Must Have Resolutions for 2009

There are currently a bazillion blogs and articles on what any business or entrepreneur can be doing right now to weather the economic crisis and job lay-offs.  Rean them all you want, but if you don’t get back to your bascis ...READ»

Be Sure to Tip the Sound Guy

Last weekend I moderated an author event at the Texas Book Festival. The author I presented, Travis Nichols, is also a musician and said something that caught my attention. A simple phrase that went un-noticed until I brought it up at ...READ»

Take a Hike Ike and Get to Work

Interviewers and entrepreneurs often ask me the same question. What’s the most common trait between successful rock stars and successful entrepreneurs? I know they all wish I had a silver bullet, a magic fix and ...READ»

Everyone Shampoos

         There was a time when a ‘beauty salon’ was a noisy, bustling, relatively small space packed with women in curlers, adorned by large metallic hair dryers and lots of chatter. Not anymore. Today, salons are ...READ»

How To Be an A-List Blogger - Curiosity (Part 3)

In this continuing series, I am covering how you can become not only the best blogger you can be, but also how to become recognized in your field and thus adequately compensated. The first two installments covered tactics - ...READ»

What is your message to the world?

Imagine this. You step on to the elevator. The doors are closing. All of a sudden, the leading pioneer in your field or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company steps on the elevator and pushes the button to the top floor. The ...READ»