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Rules Are Made to be Broken
Sometimes sanity is about breaking the rules.
During the bulk of the operating days of my first business, a storefront in Albuquerque, I spent every Sunday afternoon at the Starbucks down the street. I went there to sip overpriced coffee and sit in front of the fireplace (this Starbucks had a [...]
I Will See It When I Belive It
In my aimless youth, coming out of high-school with no idea where I was going and no money to pay for college, I went to those ever-present teenager-targeting sirens: the military recruiters.
They all promised my choice of MOS (Military Occupational Specialty, that is to say, jobs within the service). All [...]
The Wisdom of Our Elders
With the exception of the few, narrow-focus resources I have listed in previous Tuesday Tools columns, I generally disapprove of “small business start-up guides”. Most are too broad, too generalized, too soft to be of any use at all.
While I am not revising my position, I am willing to direct [...]
A Jack-of-All-Trades is Master of None
Entrepreneurship makes renaissance men of us all.
Whether you are starting a virtual currency trade marketplace or a street-corner hotdog stand, chances are you will find yourself doing things that are way outside your field. A decade of food preparation experience probably didn’t prepare you for patching up the drywall behind [...]
Witching Hour
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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
“I am not sure I believe you.”
Sean laughs brightly, charmingly. “Believe what you want, I still want to see your business plan.”
The party [...]
Technology is a Beautiful Thing
The free music school, which is the main component of my current venture (a musical education non-profit on the island of Roatan, Honduras), just finished its first day of recording for a Christmas CD. The CD, once completed, will be sold to raise funds for the school. The first recording day [...]
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