
Over at the Elance blog I wrote a how-to piece on incubating a startup business while you are still employed. One of the tips involves setting aside dedicated time and sticking to a schedule with your side startup:
5. Set Aside A Dedicated Schedule for Your Startup
In my experience, the biggest…

Many a wonderfully creative, self-promoting, innovative, passionate and seemingly successful entrepreneur has stumbled mightily when it comes to the making money part of the deal.
I don’t know about your upbringing, but I do know that entire generations of adults were taught by…

After you’ve been in business a few years you look back. Suddenly everything is so obvious. Too bad all those things that seem so clear now, were not so clear then, when you were living through the early years of your startup.
The longer I stay in business, the more I realize what I…

How would you answer this question:
Did you ever reach a defining moment in your business when you just knew it was going to be a success?
You may be thinking: “I can’t answer that because my business is not where I want it to be — yet.”
But — this question is really…

Probably the most important success skills I’ve learned in business involve overcoming my own negative emotions and personality traits and habits. Call it learning “life skills for entrepreneurs.”
I’d like to share 5 lessons I’ve learned, that I wish I’d…

Here’s a question for you: what has given you the confidence to start your business or decide to expand it?
Barry Moltz, author of “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success,” says that failing can give you confidence. Barry was this…

Do a small number of entrepreneurs create very valuable companies while most create companies that are largely worthless, or do a large number of people create companies of modest value? The answer, at least according to one set of data, appears to be the former.
To address this question, I…

As a professor of entrepreneurship at a university, I benefit from efforts by foundations and governments to support entrepreneurship programs. While I’d like to see this support continue, I wish that the support would be provided for the right reasons.
To me, the right reason to support…

Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of HDnet and the Dallas Mavericks, is calling for abolishment of all taxes on small businesses with 25 or fewer employees in the U.S. He says that small businesses of that size should be exempt from taxes of all kinds:
“If we really want to stimulate job creation…