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What’s An Entrepreneur’s MBA Degree Really Worth?
I’m an entrepreneur. The last time I was an employee was in 1983. So what did I get from my MBA studies?
It wasn’t about earning power. I quit the fancy high-paying MBA job I’d recruited into just a few weeks after graduation. I went back to the consulting firm I’d worked with while I…
Making Your Voice Heard as a Small Business Owner
Politics has been on everyone’s mind lately due to the recent midterm elections. In California, where I live, there was much debate (as always) about whether certain propositions on the ballot would actually help citizens—or were simply smokescreens for big businesses to profit. And two of the…
12 Seconds That Changed Everything
The concept of time, when you really start to think about it, is strange. Take seconds, for instance. How long can you stay underwater without having to come up for air? Twenty seconds? Thirty? Forty? A minute? I’ll bet that those seconds seem really long.
Do you think that 12 seconds is a…
3 Deadly Threats Against Small Businesses Today
Despite the economy apparently growing for government and corporations, most small business owners I work with are increasingly terrorized by the unholy alliance of big business and government. Across political parties, this alliance is creating an increasingly toxic environment for small…
Why Small Business is Fed Up with Government
“what really grinds the gears of small business owners is the near-complete inattention by lawmakers on who creates jobs.”
So said Kimble Fletcher Ainslie in a Cato Institute article from December 20, 2001 titled “Bush Ignores Small Business.”
Eight years later under a…
Will 2010 be the year of Start-Up America?
On January 24th 2010, New York Times Columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote an op-ed piece titled, “More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,” which gave advice to President Obama as he puts the finishing touches on this week’s State of the Union speech.
He wrote “We need to make…
Small Business Owners, Only YOU Can Save the Economy
Who appointed small business owners as the savior of the U.S. economy?
Harken back to that old commercial with Smokey the Bear “only you can prevent forest fires.” Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion picked up on a similar theme about a year ago when he satirically wrote that…
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