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Risk Kills Behavior Change : 5 Ways to Prepare and Leap

September 19, 2011 by Paul Hebert with 44 views

5 steps to understand and overcome perceived risk while making a change for your business. [read more]

Bootstrapping Lessons for College Graduates

November 11, 2009 by Jeff Cornwall with 151 views

Carl Lavin, managing editor at Forbes.com, has posed a question to those of us in the blog network:Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a jump in the unemployment rate to 10.2%. Some economists think we could be looking at 10.5% by early next year.  Given these grim forecasts, how do you counsel recent college... [read more]

Is a Recession the Perfect Time to Start a Business?

May 1, 2009 by Jeff Nolan with 145 views

Received an email today pitching services for a “renowned business expert” who would like to be interviewed. The pitch was that a recession is the perfect time to start a business because: * First, everything costs less! “Start up costs are much lower than 3 years ago,” explains business startup expert, Danielle Babb. “Things like... [read more]

Tech's Future in the Recovery

April 6, 2009 by Jeff Cornwall with 113 views

Tim Jackson, Canadian entrepreneur and venture capitalist, offer his thoughts on our economic future in an interview by Gordon Pitts at ReportonBusiness.com.  Here is a sample of what he had to say: So if you are laid off from your job and have a business idea, what do you do? You beg, borrow, steal and you get it going - and you... [read more]

4 Questions To Ask Before Starting A Business

April 3, 2009 by Tim Berry with 178 views

(This post is taken from my most recent column in the Eugene Register-Guard’s Blue Chip magazine) Suppose you’ve been wanting to start a business; or maybe you’ve lost a job and you’re thinking that starting a new business might be easier than finding a new job (it’s not that unrealistic, by the way; it does happen sometimes). Is... [read more]

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