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Are any of you familiar with the term, “Six Degrees of Separation?”  What it means is that any one person is less than six people away from you.  For example, if I want to meet Michael Jordan, the famous basketball player, I am within six contacts of actually meeting him.
Think about it.  That is a [...]

One of my favorite quotes of all time is written by JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings.  You might be wondering, “What does this mean for business or startups?”  Well, read on…
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we [...]

I hate meetings.  I always have.  Here’s a trick to shorten them.
“Remove all chairs from the conference room, lower the temperature to approximately 62 degrees, and don’t allow the air to get stale.  You will see that standup meetings take about half the time as sit down meetings.”
And they are more productive…
Taken from The Entrepreneur’s [...]

Every once in a while, you hit a roadblock.  Something is thrown in your face that you just weren’t prepared for.  Be it a financial burden, something going wrong at the office, or maybe even a client that just isn’t acting the way they should.  What do you do?  Ignore it?  Deal with it in [...]

One issue which everyone has when starting a company is getting the word out. That much is true for traditional bricks and mortar stores and websites. It doesn’t matter how spectacular your service or product is… If no one knows you exist then you won’t be making any money.
This podcast deals with [...]

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