Hello world! I’ve been looking at several different entrepreneurial business models. And, I’ve been looking at the business practices of a “compressing” industry (real estate). When you really analyze your business and industry you have to ask yourself one question, “What is the most important factor in your business success?” I have personal experiences in [...]

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. The following is his presentation at the TEDConference. I find it intriguing because I’ve often wondered why more people aren’t [...]

Everything comes with an expiration date. Your college diploma, your knowledge and experience become dated, even your life won’t last forever. Yesterday is gone, and with it all the old rules, processes and techniques. Business is evolving at a staggering rate, and if you are not on the steamroller you will be under it. There [...]

Given the choice between starting a business built around a new whiz-bang widget and starting a shoe store, I would go with the shoe store every time. I’ve said for many years that the main reason businesses fail is not for lack of capital — it’s for lack of knowledge. Knowledge in your business — [...]

I received the following story from a business colleague I’ve known for about 15 years. While he and I have some different political views. We have some fundamental beliefs that will always keep us communicating and perhaps even doing business later. I’d love to hear your opinion of this story… -*-*-*-*-*- The man slowly looked [...]