Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

The winter Olympics are quickly approaching, and people around the world are preparing to tune in and watch their nations’ athletes compete on the international level. The athletes are an amazing testimony to what the human body is capable of, and they often leave the rest of us breathless as we watch them complete complex […]

There are skills you can learn from textbooks, skills you can learn in business school, and skills and lessons passed down from mentors and peers. Then there are the skills that can only be learned in the school of hard knocks and the real world. An entrepreneur who wants to be a true leader must […]

You know the game. You start with a deck of playing cards and slowly begin to stack them together, carefully leaning one card against another at just the right angle, until you’ve created a solid wall of cards. You build the house higher and higher, one card and one row at a time, all the […]

Many books and articles are written by and about successful entrepreneurs, with great information about what it takes to succeed. If it were possible to distill all of that information into a few words, it might be this: Being a successful entrepreneur really just boils down to solving problems and being resilient enough to find […]

Here’s something to chew on as you think about your business plans for the coming year: A young entrepreneur moved from Philadelphia to Chicago in 1891 with $32 in his pocket and the idea of selling his family’s scouring soap to customers. As an incentive, the 29-year-old offered free baking powder with each soap purchase. […]

As an entrepreneur and small businessperson, I enjoy stories of other entrepreneurs who overcame obstacles to realize their dreams. One such story involves Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in the early 1950s, struggling to support herself and a son. Frustrated with having to retype entire documents because of simple typing errors, Graham invented a white […]