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Creative Resilience: Working with the Clay of Opportunity

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation. In the previous post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation we talked about “amping ideas.” Idea amping is a way of life for an entrepreneur — and especially so for a small business one. Being an entrepreneur is a contrarian state. Chapter 10. ” I reviewed two tools for doing so.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. One of the worst things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. The lack of rules and structure causes many entrepreneurs to work incessantly. infoChachkie. Uncle Saul.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Most firms that do decide to take equity do so because their risk is far reduced when compared to that of the entrepreneur, or that of the traditional cash investor.

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How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business

Up and Running

This is also a good time to think about what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Make those tweaks before fully entering the market – and understand that, for most entrepreneurs, this is a process, not a single final product. Perhaps businesses that will stock your products? Can you sell ‘yourself’ or the things you create?