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This Entrepreneur Financed Her Business With a Side Hustle

Charlie Heck is the founder of Checkmark Creative, a marketing boutique that works with small businesses to tell their stories through social media, website design and infographics. “We take really complex material and make pretty...

byNav

October 21, 2019

How This Entrepreneur Made Monday the Happiest Day for Employees

Shaun Savage is the founder and CEO of GoShare, a company that considers itself “your friend with a truck.” GoShare connects truck and van owners with businesses and people who need help with moving or...

byNav

March 4, 2019

How This Entrepreneur Started a Business to Help New Parents

Nicole Johnson is the president and owner of The Baby Sleep Site, a resource for new parents who are trying to help their babies, toddlers and preschoolers sleep better. The company provides assistance with issues...

byNav

October 23, 2018

5 Questions to Ask Before Turning Your Side Hustle Into Your Career

Many people dream of turning a side hustle, hobby or passion project into a legitimate, full time job. In fact, according to a study done by Invoice2go, nearly half (47 percent) of those in the...

byGreg Waldorf

November 1, 2017

Why Starting a Business is Not the Same as Running One

You spend months collecting knowledge and years honing your skills. You garner resources and advisors, you find a location and a name, and before you know it, you're off and starting a business. Already, you feel...

byCher Zevala

April 30, 2017

Status Quo Bias: The Dangers of Letting It Run Your Business

Whatever your current state of affairs are, they serve as a reference point — a gauge to measure the past and future. How else would we make sense of time? Our brains draw comparisons and...

byJustin E. Crawford

January 16, 2017

Business Model Canvas: Escape the DIY Trap

With a piece of paper, a pen, sticky notes and 15 minutes, you can transform your business — and your life. This is all you need to make a Business Model Canvas, which reduces a traditional...

byJustin E. Crawford

July 13, 2016

Your Business Needs a (Nontraditional) Plan

The traditional business plan has created the wrong expectations of a CEO at a small business, and there’s a revolution afoot in the way elite MBA programs and Silicon Valley think about small business strategy...

byJustin E. Crawford

June 13, 2016

The Art of Business: Meet Your New Canvas

Here's all you need to fundamentally change the way you think about your business, and yourself in relation to it: a piece of paper, a pen, sticky notes and 15 minutes. You might be saying,...

byJustin E. Crawford

May 13, 2016

4 Things You’re Doing Wrong in Social Media

I find that I sometimes learn more from other people's mistakes than from their good advice. Believe me: in entrepreneurship, there are a lot of mistakes made. However, being aware of some of the more...

bySusan Guillory

May 9, 2016

The Big Idea Asks for Help

The producers at The Big Idea called asking if I'd make myself available to help out one of their viewers in need. His name was Tony, and here was his situation: He's a dad of...

byRich Sloan

September 29, 2008

Varied Ramblings about Extramarital Affairs, Assistant-Loss and Media Attention.

This has been an interesting week - not so much business-wise, but due to a friend's personal problem that is affecting us. My husband’s boss (and good friend) just found out that his wife of...

byChris Hansico

April 28, 2007

Tennis and Small Business

I'm a tennis player. Well, let me rephrase … I play tennis. I played last night as a matter of fact. Two hours of singles against guys younger than me. Not bad for a dude...

byJoel Welsh

February 9, 2007

Small business owners are like an orchestra conductor

My new bride and I went to the symphony this past Saturday night. Music from Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and a special appearance by Lang Lang, a 23-year old pianist. It totally rocked. There is something...

byJoel Welsh

September 12, 2006

Don’t forget the small stuff

Whoa, remember me? Its been a long time since I blogged. No excuse for the unexplained absence... other than graduation from college (after nine years of in and out!), consulting on a friend's new business,...

byJonathan Hudson

July 20, 2006