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My job as a Internet Media Sales executive entitles me the responsibility to scour the internet for online publishers who may need the services that my company Operative offers, which by the way is ad serving technology and outsourced ad trafficking While I am doing this, I am always thinking of my Mindpetals community members [...]

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You and Your Partner Need to Set Expectations

One of the biggest problems that partners face when starting a company are the “expectations” that each person has for the company. Your partner may expect the company to be making $500,000 in revenue the first year. And you may expect the company to do $25,000 the first year. Expectations come in many forms when [...]

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Protect Yourself, Your Business, and Your Everything – Get A Lawyer

Last week we offered you some pointers on how to determine which lawyer is best for you, but what about actually finding a lawyer. If there’s one thing that entrepreneurs aren’t short of, it’s lawyers. Legal advice is absolutely essential to the entrepreneur’s long-term success. We’d be kidding ourselves if we thought we could get [...]

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Some Tips on Getting the Right Lawyer

While it’s a good idea to be knowledgeable about rules and regulations for your business practices, finding the right legal help at the right time can be a little overwhelming. You’ll find plenty of lawyers ready to jump on board with your entrepreneurial venture, but overspending on legal assistance is an easy mistake. Finding a [...]

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So Now that You Started Your Business Here Are 5 “Continues” to Keep You Growing

A few years ago I was really into bodybuilding. Back then, to me, it was all about building muscle and getting bigger and bigger and bigger…. At one point, I was approaching 220 pounds. I was huge and I knew that the only way to get bigger was to continue to overload my muscles with [...]

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You Should Build A Business Around Your Passion — Well, Maybe Not

For years I’ve been telling people to build a business around their passion and that will be the key to success. Well, that’s not exactly correct. Someone can be super passionate about, say, yoga — they practice yoga all day long, read yoga books, talk about yoga to their friends and family, eat, sleep, and [...]

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5 Top Notch Services for your Startup

Vonage If you aren’t down with VoIP yet, where have you been hiding out? With Vonage expect to pay $30 per month (actually mine comes out to $32.50) and relax with unlimited calls in the US. Get rid of that outdated land-line and upgrade to an Internet phone connection. It’s faster, clearer, and cheaper. Blinksale [...]

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3 Things We Can Learn from the HOT or NOT Founders

HOT or NOT, as I’m sure that you can guess, is that site that allows you to rate people by their hotness. It’s simple: if someone is hot, you rate them high and if they are butt ugly, you give ‘em a low rating. The founders of this company have scaled it to a level [...]

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Your startup needs CREATIVE minds AND… BUSINESS minds

Some people are just so damn creative. They can come up with brilliant concepts, figure out such elegant and simple solutions to the weirdest problems, and brainstorming with them is analogous to sitting down with Jobs, Branson, and Gates…well, at least it feels that way. Now on the other side of the coin, some people [...]

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