StartupStella - is she fiction or is she entrepreneurial fact?! Welcome to the wry world of Stella, a home-based hoot who graces the pages of StartupNation with her rants, observations and twisted advice, reflecting the realities of what life is really like as a home-based entrepreneur.
Here are some fun snapshots of my life.
If you've been a maverick entrepreneur for awhile, there's a chance you may have lost touch with the reasons you sloughed the corporate shackles and struck off on your own. It's road trip time. Time to...
Kids pick up things--not, like, their clothes or anything useful. But they do pick up attitudes and conversations. And then they use them against you. Take my kids, for example. Since my foray into the...
Let me just say straight off that I resent the term "stay-at-home mom" and "stay-at-home dad." For a couple of reasons. First, do we really stay-at-home? Are we some kind of business shut-ins, who cower under...
I was reading that Olivia Newton-John just got married again. Oh, hold your little blog ponies, people, I have a point. I just noticed in the article that her new hubby, John Easterling, was termed an "entrepreneur" and I...
Ahhh. Just remembering the cold steel routine of the five-day work week. Every week began with a Monday. Three days were spent wishing it was Friday. And, right on cue, every week ended with a Friday....
Do you know what's the worst thing about starting up a home business, besides the two weeks my husband is on vacation and decides he wants to help me? I'll tell you: it's the "helpful" advice...
While most of you are thinking about your goals for the upcoming year, I am going through emails and semi-anonymous notes from friends and family members that offer suggestions of what I should do in...
In just a few days, they (and by they, I, of course, mean the global powers-that-be who control the media’s light holiday feature-type articles) will release their treasured summation of what the 12 Days of Christmas...
Is it just me, or are all the cute little lessons you learned in kindergarten just not applicable when you become a home entrepreneur? Remember to share... When you're an entrepreneur you need three forms...
Well. Well. Well. A few days ago I was looking over the Startup Nation Home-Based 100 and tried to locate any mention of Startup Stella. Nope. No mention. Not a word. You'd think I had...
There are only a few situations less horrifying to the home business entrepreneur than running into… the former co-worker. Uggghh. I just had that situation this weekend. These run-ins always begin the same way for...
It’s that time of year again, time for the Nobel Prizes—a series of awards given to the best and brightest scientific minds. But... excuse me all the way to Oslo and back... did you notice...
The great thing about being a home business entrepreneur, at least for me, is that that the corporate Kool-Aid stand has been officially closed down. You all know what corporate Kool-Aid is, right? It’s where...
My husband is always commenting that my career as a home business entrepreneur has certainly made my language more... ummm... colorful. He said I can now put together strings of syllables and consonants that I could...
We, the undersigned members of the fastest growing occupational group in the world, if not the universe, "in order to form a more perfect union"or at least keep our friends, family members and business associates...
Lately, I’ve been trying to learn new ways to inspire creativity by reading books by leading innovation experts and it hit me like a sack full of Rubik's Cubes: No wonder the greatest product ideas and...
So many of you are stuck in boring, nine-to-five jobs. All I can say is I feel your pain. I know you really want to start a home business, but are a little afraid. It’s difficult...
Who is your home business guru? You’re too kind… No, really, besides me? Almost everyone who woke up, went to work, smelled the coffee (that you had to make yourself because your co-workers never make...
As home business entrepreneurs, it’s a question we always ask ourselves: How will I know when my business is really a success? How do you know you’re through the Dip, as Seth Godin calls it?...
What is the secret power of the home business entrepreneur? What is the secret of her efficiency? Of his productivity? It is “the Routine.” This ability to multi-task our multi-tasking is our superpower. Our friends...