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You Get What You Pay For?
Keep up with Elise and her story of becoming a successful entrepreneur:
What do you Know?
Education
Just Notes
Golden Numbers
How Much?
Neither Borrower nor Lender Be
Walking Many Paths
Horse Trading
Three Card Monty
It is All Shelly’s Idea
The Party Line
The Big Meeting
“Wait a minute, two and a half percent?”
“Yes ma’am.”
Elise had never in her life been [...]
Oh, What’s in a Name?
In a previous column I wrote about my current business’s success in raising monetary and material donations for the school, just by asking for aid and clearly explaining what was needed.
A few weeks ago, we set out to raise more money. This time it had to be cash, cement blocks [...]
The Sun’ll come out…
Here’s a question for you established entrepreneurs: if starting capital were not an issue, would you be doing the same thing right now?
This is a fantasy scenario. If someone had, the day before you committed yourself to your current venture, offered you a blank check and said, “Do anything you [...]
Carpet Baggers
We savvy internet pioneer types tend to pride ourselves on our wild-west wits. We try to wheel and deal solo-like, making our money where we can and covering our own backs. For several years we have enjoyed the wide open spaces and untamed wildernesses of internet business.
There comes a [...]
The Wheel of Fortune Forbids…
For reasons beyond my control, I am far from my computer (wherein resides today’s Monday’s Mistakes article) and see no prospects for returning to it in a timely fashion. Rather than the scheduled article, I can only offer you the following: a few words of wisdom and the vague promise of a [...]
The Big Meeting
Keep up with Elise and her story of becoming a successful entrepreneur:
What do you Know?
Education
Just Notes
Golden Numbers
How Much?
Neither Borrower nor Lender Be
Walking Many Paths
Horse Trading
Three Card Monty
It is All Shelly’s Idea
The Party Line
“Thursdays are the best. This Denny’s gets the new ranch dressing in on Thursday afternoons, so the ranch is [...]
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