Building a Bootstrapping Mentality
Bootstrapping a business startup is an art. It can be a lot of fun if approached the right way. No matter how well-funded your...
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The Most Valuable Inheritance - "A Work Ethic"
9:00 AM comes especially early for kids or young teenagers. It is even more debilitating when your father is the alarm clock that has a...
Balancing Life as an Entrepreneur
The need to strike a balance in life between work and family is not lost on the entrepreneur. The effort required to get a startup over...
Family Blessings
In a family of 12 children, my father, the oldest of six boys, was told at the age of 14 he was old enough to be on his own. He found a...
Know Your Customers to Know Your Business
Aspiring entrepreneurs often ask me for my opinion on their creative ideas, and there have been a few instances where I have been very...
From U.S. Secret Service to Entrepreneur
I started my career in the U.S. Secret Service in 1989 and worked for 25 years before becoming an entrepreneur. I was initially assigned...
Building a Big Brand on a Small Budget
Image is everything when it comes to marketing your business to consumers or to other businesses, yet it is shocking how little many entrepr
A Tale of Two Brothers
The market crash of 1929 kicked off a period in American history known as the Great Depression. My grandfather's home construction busin
Borrowing Startup Capital from Relatives
For most entrepreneurs, their startup venture is not a likely candidate for a bank loan. Many entrepreneurs turn to family members to...
The Deadliest Sin in Business
When I opened my construction company in 2003 I was awestruck by the lifestyles of other contractors. Every year, Ford came out with a new p
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