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How Entrepreneurs Find Harmony and Life Balance Working from Home

When your work life is intrinsically intertwined with your home life, the lines can become blurry. This is true for remote employees of all kinds but especially home-based entrepreneurs. You put your all into getting...

byCharlie Fletcher

February 18, 2024

‘Lessons My Brothers Taught Me’: Building a Great Team

This excerpt from “Lessons My Brothers Taught Me” by Charles McCarrick highlights the importance of building a great team in business and emphasizes the responsibility of managers to create a supportive workplace environment. Building a...

byCharles McCarrick

June 13, 2023

Top 10 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Decades of research have shown that the super-rich have a lot in common. They share the same mentality, for example, as well as a number of the habits they follow in their personal lives. To...

byMarlo Richardson

August 5, 2022

It’s Time To Start A Movement

We all should live a life that stirs movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gandhi. Germaine Greer. Erin Brockovich. Oprah. I’m not a big fan of comparing myself to others, and nor should you be. But when...

byCatherine Plano

December 29, 2016

Finding success as an older entrepreneur

3 mistakes that can derail an older entrepreneur Launching a business—whether it's a side hustle or second career—is on the minds of many people these days, especially baby boomers. As they get ready to retire,...

bySharon Epperson

December 2, 2014

Why can’t I get anything done?

I have so much to do today, but the gods of entrepreneurism are not on my side. My car unexpectedly developed a crunchy noise, so I spent most of the morning waiting in a dealership...

byChris Hansico

April 12, 2007

Love Is the Killer App

Step aside, email. Internet? You ain't got game. iPhone sounds sweet, but doesn't even come close to the real killer app – that business application that holds the true power to change the world. Starting...

byJoel Welsh

January 23, 2007

The Power of “You”

Did any of you catch the "Time Magazine" "Person of the Year" feature? The Person of the Year according to "Time" in 2006 was....."YOU". Now sometimes I think "Time" tries to keep things interesting with...

byRich Sloan

January 22, 2007

It Still Smells at StartupNation HQ

Entrepreneurs need those unique and unexpected diversions in order to shake them out of their daily intensity and provide a proper perspective and the proverbial “looking at things from a different angle”. The good news...

byJoel Welsh

January 19, 2007

Former Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble has got it goin’ on

Uber blogger Robert Scoble announced last month that he was leaving the "comfy?" corporate world of Microsoft to join a startup - mentioned us in his blog Scobleizer. Now here's a great example of an...

byJoel Welsh

July 21, 2006

Does your business plan include an exit strategy?

I was reading an article on WashingtonPost.com about how social search startups have sprung up to fill in the gaps that the larger search engines like Google and Yahoo! have left open. It's an interesting...

byJoel Welsh

July 10, 2006

Entrepreneurs need to turn it off to turn it on

Entrepreneurs often don't but they especially should. And when they do, they don't really, at least not completely. (I'm reminding myself of Yogi Berra's famous quotes – my favorite: "If the fans don't come out...

byJoel Welsh

May 30, 2006

Small business owners are contestants in the real American Idol

I never watched American Idol. But I'm sure many of you have. I want to know if the show has anything to teach us about running our businesses and our lives. Without ever watching, here...

byJoan Isabella

May 30, 2006

A “normal” day for an entrepreneur

• Caffeine-up • Follow up with customers • Analyze website traffic • Move forward on strategy for growing customer base • Tweak strategy for growing customer base • Manage accounting activity • Re-caffeinate • Gain...

byJoel Welsh

May 17, 2006

Lunchtime: I’m in the sales pipeline for small business

A glimpse into the lunch hour of a typical customer: Here's what happened in my world over the past 60 minutes. I was touched by several small businesses, reminded why I do business with some...

byJoel Welsh

May 3, 2006

Life Plan in action: a “do what you love” podcast business

I am a subscriber to 5 podcasts: • StartupNation Radio • Entrepreneurial Tips with the Sloan Brothers • Adam Curry's Daily Source Code • The President's Weekly Radio Address • Roots Rock Radio You're surely...

byJoel Welsh

April 12, 2006

A Reminder: Don’t Ignore Your Life Plan

I generally dislike forwarded messages, especially the ones that tell me to forward them immediately to ten people or else I'll probably go to Hell. If I dislike them, my husband despises them. So I...

byJoan Isabella

February 24, 2006

How to ask for help and get results

As you might expect, we get a great many emails from entrepreneurs who march to the beat of the StartupNation drum. Carin is one of those people. Unfortunately, Carin has recently run into tough times...

byRich Sloan

January 15, 2006

Finding the ”where” of success

In Rich Karlgaard's book, Life 2.0, he focuses on how people have transformed their lives by moving to a new city, town, tract of land. In reading the book, it reinforced our belief that it's...

byRich Sloan

December 2, 2005