Daily Petals
May 2008
- Mind Petals Plastic Bags Kill Campaign Continues
- Insight from Watching a Crow being Mobbed
- Plastic Bags Kill (part 3)
- Plastic Bags Kill (part 2)
- Plastic Bags Kill (part 1)
- GIAS Video - Green Inspirational Acts of Spirituality
April 2008
- Let the Universe be your University
- The Drug and Spirit Connection
- Man vs. Nature
- Don't Remain A Slave to Fear
- Mind Petals Speaks to "Chocolate Girl"
- Mind Petals Introduces G.I.A.S - Green Inspirational Acts of Spirituality
- Corporate Cocaine Culture
- Mind Petals NYC Gathering Recap and the Transformation of Mind Petals
- You are the Saviors
- Tapping Into Yourself
March 2008
- Mutational Paradigm Shift
- Nature As A Mega Frequency
- The World Needs Your Help, Please Don't Just Watch
- It's scary as hell. It's amazing as heaven.
- Eating Meat Destroys You and Everything Else
- Know the Games You Play
- Freedom to Express Your True Self is not Necessary, it's a MUST
- My Picture Story of Morton National Wildlife Reserve
- Step Out of the System (part 3)
- Step Out of the System (part 2)
- Step Out of the System (part 1)
- Eating Foods that Remain Connected to Nature
- Nature Inciting a Mutational Paradigm Shift
- Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge: Journal Entry 1
February 2008
- Mind Petals NYC Garden Gathers in Rainy Lower East Side
- Randy Pausch Shows Us Beauty In Life, Even While Staring Death in the Face
- What is the Highest Point of Human Evolution?
- Folding into Yourself
- Taking Cosmic Steps, Not Quantum Leaps
- Where Do You Go To See Your Reflection?
- Mind Petals Boston Chapter, The First Gathering
- Advice for an Entrepreneur in Need of Guidance
- Avi Flombaum discusses "Naked Functionality" - What Separates Your Application from the Rest
- I Wave, You Wave -- We're ALL Waving
- David Askaripour Speaks about "The Trance of Samadhi"
January 2008
- Mind Petals Magazine – January 2008
- Mind Petals NYC Garden -- We Killed it Again with our 6th Gathering
- Are You Plugged In or Battery Powered?
- Another Mind Petals Garden Sprouts: Mind Petals Boston Chapter
- FEAR: The Struggles, Questions, and Observations that I’ve Made to Overcome
- Clicking and Skipping Through Life
- Describing that which Cannot be Described
- Seriousness Kills Any Situation
- Organism defines the Environment, Environment defines the Organism
- The Force of Life is In the Seed
- What I Learned About Business From the Dancing Subway Guy
- Our Closet Full of Masks
- Mind Petals Magazine - Back Issues Available
- Seeing Beyond "Seeing" is Essential for Growth
- Understanding Authentic Leadership
- Orian Marx: “How to Build and Maintain a Strong Founding Team” (part 2)
- Orian Marx: "How to Build and Maintain a Strong Founding Team" (part 1)
December 2007
- Avi Flombaum: "The Crystallization of Ideas"
- Become the Unsoiled Swan
- Speeding Down "Real World Way" -- Are You Passenger or Driver?
- Authentic Leadership: What It Is, What It’s Not
- Your Passion Needs No End
- David Askaripour: Never Settle on "The Authority" (part 2)
- David Askaripour: Never Settle for What "The Authority" Says (part 1)
- Making Money = Easy. Servicing Others = Hard.
- Three Creative Relationships: Monarchical, Concentric, Organism-based
- Mind Petals Pakistan: SZABIST Chapter Launch [updated]
- Chasing and Being
- Questioning Your Deepest Convictions: The Kantian Revolution
- Is Multitasking Really A GOOD Thing?
- You Have it ALL. No, Really, You Do.
November 2007
- Mind Petals NYC Chapter -- Gathering 5
- Making A Decision: Every Second -- Literally -- Counts
- Darius Askaripour : "Transitioning from Employee to Employer"
- David Askaripour : "The Ever-Changing Nature of Ideas"
- A Perfect World of Ease and Beauty
- What Do You Do? (re: how do you make money!!? how much!!! tell me!!)
- The World Really Has No Clue About What's In Your Head
- Are You On the Journey of Expanding Your Mind or the Journey of Ignoring Your Potential?
- The Secret: Uncovered and Exposed
- Mind Petals NYC Chapter #4
- Look at Me: I am so Fake that You Can't Even Tell Anymore
- So You Thought Quitting Your Job Was the Answer to Freeing Yourself? Think Again.
October 2007
- Listen to "Professor You" -- Your Number One Teacher
- Mind Petals Makes Top 100 Business Blogs
- Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myself
- That Which You Resist, Persists
- What Will Define You: Your Business? Your Contributions? Your Character?
- The Simple Words that Inspire Us, Ignite Us, and Unite Us
- 7 Essentials of the Marketing Plan
- Tips on Training Your Sales Team for Success
- How to Review the Competition
- 6 Benefits of Email Newsletters
- 5 Traits of Powerful Ad Copy
- Don't Be Scared to Draw Outside the Lines -- No Boundaries!
- Those Who Dare To Be Different, Beware: You'll be Feared, Hated, and Respected
- "Happiness Expectations" Will Suck The Life Out of YOU
- Chasing Money Makes Me Absolutely Sick (sometimes...)
- 25 Ways to Be Your Own Boss (If You’re Not One Already)
- Marketing With Emotion: How to Create a Stir
- Key Benefits of Radio Advertising
- Shoeboxed Interview with Mind Petals
- Hiring Tips to Build Your Successful Team
- A lot of Innovation Comes Down to A lot of Destroying
- 8 Essential Elements of the Business Blog
- 6 Easy Ways to Build Rapport
- We’ve Become Slaves of "Business" Terms and Labels -- It’s Sickening!
September 2007
- Mind Petals NYC Chapter #3
- Advertising Locally Without the YellowPages: MerchantCircle.com Promises to Deliver
- 5 Tips for Avoiding Premature Burnout as an Entrepreneur
- 5 Startups That Aren’t Worth The Trouble
- 5 Key Benefits of Being a Solopreneur
- Microtasking for Improved Productivity
- Feared, Loved, or Respected: How Do YOU Lead your Company?
- Successful Quitting: Tips from Seth Godin’s 'The Dip'
- Does Being Caffeine-Free Lead to Better Productivity?
- Making Your Workspace Clutter-Free: 5 Tips for High Performance
- 6 Attributes of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs
- The Law of Attraction for Snagging New Clients
- The Entrepreneur’s Most Important Investment: The People!
- 5 Must Read Entrepreneurship Books Before the End of the Year
- The 5 Components of Your Marketing Plan
- 6 Essentials of Your Winning Presentation
- Putting Yourself on the SquidWho Map
- How Important is Education for Entrepreneurial Success?
- The Peaceful Warriors of Entrepreneurship
- 7 Easy Ways to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Presentation
- 4 Signs You’re Procrastinating on Making Your Business Plan
- Paper or Plastic? Growing Wealth By Carrying Cash In Your Wallet
- Is Your Startup A Killer?
- Your Million Dollar Idea: Ready to Run With It?
- Schmoozing Like a Pro: Are You Doing It Right?
- Business Week Nominations for America’s Best Entrepreneurs Concludes September 10
- The Most Important Element of A Startup – The Team
- 5 Easy Ways to Make Multitasking Work for YOU
August 2007
- Backpacker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Are You the Next Virtual Business Success Story?
- Business Brain Food to Kick Your Intelligence Into High Gear
- What’s Your Company Culture: Fun, Smart, Boring, Innovative?
- Backseat Business Tips: Smart Sacrifices, Never Hiding Your Value, and Keeping Secrets
- Experience.com Launches Entrepreneurship Guide
- Are You THOUGHTING or THINKING About Your Business?
- Kwik-E-Mart and 7-Eleven: Buzz Marketing at its Best -- You Can Do it Too!
- Form a Company Around Your Community, Not a Community Around Your Company
- Dis-count the Competition?
- Seedco Helping NYC Entrepreneurs! Funding, Free Legal Advice, and More...
- Learn from My Mistakes
- Entrepreneur.com Releases Entrepreneur Assist
- What’s Your Pitch! Vator.tv
- 10 Things that you can “Do” as an Entrepreneur and “Want” to do as an Employee
- 5 Tips on How to Convince People
- The "Stop" and "Go" Effect of Your Ideas
- Top 10 Signs You're Made to be an Entrepreneur
- Think About Your "Desires" -- What'll Bring You True Happiness?
- MP Review: The Radical Leap
- You and Your Partner Need to Set Expectations
- If Murdoch Could Convince the Bancroft Family to Sell the Wall Street Journal in 4 Months, Anything is Possible
- 10 Ways to Weather the Storm Entrepreneurship
- Place A Money Tree in Your Office and Rake in the Millions
July 2007
- Protect Yourself, Your Business, and Your Everything – Get A Lawyer
- Why Do People Throw Their Weight Around? It’s Not Cool!
- Which Entrepreneur Would You Spend Your 15 Minutes With?
- Anyone that Runs A Company: "Incorporate Giving in What You Do"
- Stop Being A Poser and Live Your Life By Example, Not by Talking
- A Tale of a Young Entrepreneur Being Fired, Quitting his Jobs, and Taking a Leap into Entrepreneurship for Life
- How To Organize Your Books
- Some Tips on Getting the Right Lawyer
- So Now that You Started Your Business Here Are 5 “Continues” to Keep You Growing
- You Should Build A Business Around Your Passion -- Well… Maybe Not
- Don’t Even Sit Down for Less than $100
- 5 Top Notch Services for your Startup
- facebook and MySpace Can Unveil the Entrepreneur’s Dirty Little Secrets
- Make Your Own Whiteboard
- Why Your Business Needs a Press Release
- Does Your Profession Define You?
- 10 Posters for the Entrepreneur's Wall
- 5 Reasons Why You Should “NOT” get a 9 to 5 After Graduating
- 7 Amazing Entrepreneurs Who Have Inspired, Motivated, and Taught Us All
- Learning to Take What You Need
- Your Image can Haunt You or Help You
- A Few Things I Overheard from An Entrepreneur's Venture Capital Presentation
- The Determination Factor
- Speak to A Homeless Person About Your Startup
- Are You Living Within Your Means?
- What Does "Brilliance" Mean to You?
- You Don’t Want to be “Normal,” But it Sure Would be Nice to Fit In
- Advertise on Mind Petals: Summer Sale -- $50 (logo) / $20 (text link)
- 10 Step Guide to Thinking like a WINNER
- Are These Guys Entrepreneurs or Just Dudes who Caught a Lucky Break?
- Cockiness vs. Confidence
- Young Entrepreneurs Must Hate Brick and Mortar Businesses, Eh?
- Embrace the Awesome Days as an Entrepreneur
- Turn Off Your Mind
- 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Network
- What to Look for in a Good Copy Writer
- Five Reasons All Entrepreneurs Should Join Toastmasters
- I Don’t Want to Be An Ant Anymore -- Let’s Have Real Human Interactions
- Mind Petals Magazine -- July Issue is Ready to Rock
- Charge What You're Worth
June 2007
- Know Your Market (Customers) Better than Anything Else
- Entrepreneurship Is A Weird Thing: Less Safety. Less Security. More Stress. But a Chance to Attain Massive Success and Change the World. Can You Handle It? Can You Rise Above?
- Challenge: Walk a Mile in Another Guy’s Shoes
- Ad:Bree -- Social Networking for Internet Business People
- Standing Up for Yourself
- Mind Petals NYC Chapter Meeting #2
- What Happens When the Young Entrepreneur Grows Up?
- MP Review: What the Bleep Do We (k)now!?
- How Much is Too Much E- Communication?
- Advertise Your Company (for FREE) in Mind Petals Magazine -- Resource Page
- Making a Comeback
- Take it from Billy Walsh -- Follow Your Gut
- Beware of Trendy Health Food – it May Not be Your Best Bet (Part 2)
- Plan Heaven: Matching Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Resources
- Dr. Entrepreneur, Let’s Run A Differential Diagnosis
- Beware of Trendy Health Food – it May Not be Your Best Bet (Part 1)
- Get Out of Way or Get Crushed by the Stampede of True Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs Should Hone Their Skills, Writing Included
- It’s a War out There: Entrepreneurs vs. Robots
- Punch Holes in Your Schedule
- A Few Ways to Up Your Public Speaking (Part 2)
- Are You Micromanaging Yourself?
- A Few Ways to Up Your Public Speaking Skills (part 1)
- What Has Your Dad Taught You?
- Who Deserves Your Hard-Earned Money?
- When is it Time to Put Your Idea in A Box, Nail it up, and Bury it for Good?
- Always Blow Expectations Out of the Water
- Can You Transform Your 15 Minutes of Fame into Continuous Success?
- Some People Deserve to Be Cut From Your Life -- For Good!
- Avoid Idea Constipation
- Are Entrepreneurs Born or Created?
- So You Think Your Idea is Hot? Let's Rip it Apart!
- The Five Laws of Gold
- Healthy Body -- Healthy Business
- Online Advertising: What the Young Entrepreneur Can Do to Maximi$e It
- ANGER Can Fuel the Entrepreneur Within
- Overheard Conversation of a Skeptical Parent
- Young Entrepreneurs Are Fueling this Intangible Economy
- Need to Get Re-motivated?
- "But She Looked So Good On Paper": Conducting Interviews
- Rachael Ray is a Rockstar Entrepreneur Keeping it Real
- Will Work For MONEY
- Happy Birthday Mind Petals
- MP Brain Twister: What's Special About this Number: 8,459,176,320 ?
- We All Tend to Focus on the External, What About the Internal?
- Mind Petals Magazine – June 2007 Issue
May 2007
- Planning Is Great. But it’s Not Everything
- How Much $$$ Would It Take You to Stop Being an Entrepreneur?
- Mind Petals NYC Chapter Meeting #1 – The Official Gathering of Young Entrepreneurial Minds
- 5 Tips to Improve Your Memory
- Solve Your Problems Algorithmically
- 6 PROactive Steps To Maximize Your Time
- 3 Things We Can Learn from the HOT or NOT Founders
- Don’t Stand On the Edge -- Jump In!
- The Pull of the Entrepreneur
- We Are The Wolves Disrupting the Herd of Sheep
- All Great Entrepreneurs Should
ActAsk Like A 5 Year Old - What’s In the Rearview Mirror of Your Company?
- MP Radio #3 - Ben Casnocha Keeping Things Real
- The I-Doser Business Model: “Our Music Will Get You High”
- MP is Seeking A Rockstar Programmer
- Don't Stop Selling Your Dream
- MP Review: The Tipping Point
- Summer Time: Relax, but Keep Your Business Moving!
- Don’t (Just) Sell Your Product, Sell Your Concept
- MP Radio Show #2 - Darren Herman of IGA Worldwide
- MP Review: “Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life”
- You Can Always Get What You Want
- Your startup needs CREATIVE minds AND... BUSINESS minds
- Put Your Business Ahead of Yourself
- MP Radio Show #1 - Amie Street Speaks Out
- Entrepreneurship Is A Musical. Corporate America Is Just One Note.
- MP Review: "The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart"
- Mind Petals Motivates and Inspires Marta Valle 8th Graders
- Stop Holding it Off – 7 Reasons to Incorporate Your Business
- Still Not Sure What You Want to Do? Take a Roadtrip and Explore
- The Top 5 Ways to Effectively Market Your Small Business For Free
- EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About It… Mind Petals Magazine, May Issue… Get Your Copy Now...
April 2007
- Network With People that Want to Network, Forget the Rest
- Justin.tv Rocks – This Young Entrepreneur Is Recording His Life, 24/7
- Do Young Entrepreneurs Want to Take Their Company Public? (ahem... facebook)
- Are Older Entrepreneurs Threatened By the Younger?
- If You’re Unsatisfied with Life, You’re an Entrepreneur
- Are You the Next Russell Simmons?
- Institute For Entrepreneurship College
- Working Fast Has its Benefits
- "Visualize" What You Want Out of Life -- Don't Just "Think"
- Swimming In the Deep End
- Getting the Team Together
- When You Volunteer, You’re Investing In Your Business
- Your Company Needs Fanboys -- Lots of 'em
- Do the (equity)Math For Your Startup
- Did You Get Back Your Taxes? If So, Reinvest those Bucks!
- Sometimes You’ll Need To Prune Your Customers – Keep Your Business Positive
- Marry Your Passion and Divorce The Rest
- Have No FEAR – Fear Will Waste The Entrepreneur’s Time
- I’m Not Unemployed, I’m (SELF)-employed
- What the BLEEP Do Entrepreneurs Know?
- It’s OK To Be A Blissfully Ignorant Entrepreneur
- How An Entrepreneur Built A Brand Around the Deadliest Killing Weapon in the World
- Mind Petals Presentation at New York University
- Contribute / Distribute Mind Petals Magazine – May 2007
- Don’t be Afraid to Distort Reality – Think BIG
- You Must Be The Keeper of the Vision
- True HUNGER and PASSION, These Kids Got it
- Nowadays Everyone Wants Something In Return – That’s Not Entrepreneurship
- Mans Most Precious Commodity... It May not be What You Think !!!
- 8 Sneaky, Clever, and Downright Dirty Ways To Quit Your Job
- 5 Entrepreneurial Lessons From the Movie “Rounders”
March 2007
- Nothing Beats A Good Ol’ Party
- Every Entrepreneur Needs Advisors. Period.
- Marketing is Just As Simple As Remembering a Birthday
- Become A Contributing Editor for Mind Petals Magazine – April Edition
- 5 Chess Lessons for the Entrepreneur
- 10 Tips n’ Tricks to Raise Funds and Bootstrap Your Biz
- Embrace Your Addictions and Rise Above
- If You Read One Book This Year, Read “The Alchemist”
- Never Let Go of the Treasure Within You
- The Young Entrepreneur Gets A MacBook
- Send A "Real" Letter Once In A While
- Take Baby Steps and Improve Your Self Control
- Why Would I Want to Work for Your Startup?
- Are Colleges Starting to Appreciate The Young Entrepreneur?
- Big-Talking Entrepreneurs
- You’re working on what? “Me too.”
- The “Others’ Mistakes” Fallacy
- How’s the Chicken Noodle Soup? Sure, it’s a Great Choice!
- Questioning the Professor-Entrepreneur
- Are You Watching TV Right Now?
- Stay Calm, Breathe, and Relax
- What’s Your Entrepreneurial Legend?
- Lessons from the Field (A Top-10 List)
- Water The Entrepreneurship Seed Within You
- What kind of car do you drive?
- Move your workspace, Increase productivity
- Keep Your Work Environment Fresh
- Website Magazine – Where Have You Been All My Life?
- The (dis)Connected Entrepreneur
- Are Young Entrepreneurs Cold Calling?
- Don’t Read This Article
- Entrepreneurs Need to Shutup and Listen
- Knowing the Jungle – A Lesson in Every Entrepreneurs’ Work
- College Isn’t Cutting it -- Let’s Go to Mind Petals University!
- Young and Hungry: The New Entrepreneur
- MP Job Board Launched
- An Elevator Ride -- Continuing Education can Take you to the Top
- Does it Matter Where The Young Entrepreneur Lives?
- 5 Shopping Tips for the Bootstrapping Entrepreneur
- Share Your Startup With MP Nation
February 2007
- Asking All Young Entrepreneurs: Are You Absolutely Sick of College Yet?
- Remain Opportunistic – Always
- Why My Favorite Sport is Entrepreneurship
- Mind Petals “Cheetah” Version Launched!
- A Case for the Go-it-Alone Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurs Live Longer!
- Sometimes I’m Scared to Make Money: The Pressure is ON.
- If Your Company Makes A Mistake, Do What Jet Blue Does: Apologize!
- Getting Much Needed Help
- Coming Up With A Company Name Isn’t A Walk In The Park
- The Relationship of VCs, SATs, Funding, and College Acceptance – Doesn’t Add Up
- Darius Askaripour’s Informal Introduction: A Young Mortgage Entrepreneur
- Qualities of an Entrepreneur
- To Outsource Or Not to Outsource?
- Persistence Vs. Begging
- Do Your Friends Get That You're An Entrepreneur?
- MP Members News: Michael Simmons & Matt Lauzon
- Sacrifice and Success Go Hand in Hand
- Protect Yourself
- When Does An Entrepreneur Duplicate Himself?
- It Isn’t Where You Start That Matters
- Start A Knowledge Base (KB) For Your Business
- Mind Petals featured in Campus CEO
- "KISS THEORY GOODBYE" Contest (week 1)
- Success Through Viral Marketing: PayPal
- What Sparked Your Journey To Becoming An Entrepreneur?
- Is Money the Best Motivator for Success?
January 2007
- Listen To the Little Voice Within
- Guru-tize Your Business and the World Will Love You
- Money vs. Networking
- Startup Business School
- The Benefits of Mentors
- Is Incorporating Online The Best Route?
- Don’t Get It in Writing Just for the Heck of It
- Is Your Startup Corporatey?
- You’re the Boss Now: "Avoid Becoming Your Own Worst Enemy"
- Become a General of Entrepreneurship
- Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make
- What a Client Wants to Hear
- 5 Pitfalls of Leadership
- 25 Words of Wisdom for the Entrepreneur
- Square One, Square Two, Square Three
- Maintaining Steady Emotions
- Snap Out of the Employee Mentality
- Should I Invest In My Company or The Stock Market?
- The Power of Negotiating
- EducateDeviate Interviews David Askaripour
- Skills of An Entrepreneur
- Are Your Diluting Your Brand?
- Are You A Coffee or Tea Entrepreneur?
- Never Give Up Spirit
- Do the Best and Save the Rest
- Two Ears and One Mouth
- Living the Dream: The ins and outs of a design company, Part II
- Skateboard Your Way To Success
- Become A Walking and Talking Marketing Machine
- Facing challenges
- Living the Dream: The ins and outs of a design company, Part I
- Patience and Consistency: What a Deadly Combo!
- Establish an Intelligence System for Your Business
- Change the Environment
- Lose the "Tude"
- Do The Opposite of What Pisses You Off
- Change Yourself Constantly
- A Healthy Entrepreneur Is A Wealthy Entrepreneur
- Sporting the Right Threads
- Set High Standards, Don’t Settle For Less
- Vinod Khosla: Bit by the Entrepreneurship Bug
- What’s Your Company’s Position?
- Adapting To Others
- Should Entrepreneurs Deceive?
- The Youngest Grocer In America
- Entrepreneurs Need To Protect Their Assets
- Have You Forgotten Where You Have Come From?
- Let's Prepare
- Happy New Year!
December 2006
- Bootstrapping: Still a Great Way to Raise Money
- Mind Petals Young Entrepreneur Report 2006
- Bring Out the Hustler from Within
- What Comes First to You: Value or Profit?
- Interview with Jay Phillips, open source entrepreneur
- Is the Web Really That Social? Get Out and Network!
- Does Size Really Matter?
- What Numebrs Do VC's Look At?
- It’s So Easy to Give Up
- Remaining Calm Is Important
- Quality Customer Service Rocks!
- Focusing After Breaks
- Merry Christmas Mind Petalers!
- Tips For a Good Pitch
- Early Bird Gets The Deal
- Starting a business during undergraduate study
- Who’s Your Muse?
- It's Happening: The Rise of the Young Entrepreneur
- Numbers Are Your Friend
- Fear Based Decisions are the Wrong Decisions
- Examples of Great Companies: Role Models
- There Goes Another Year – What Did You Do?
- Setting Yourself Up For Failure
- To Resolve or Not to Resolve
- Listening to Employees
- Hola Young Entrepreneurs!
- Brokers Vs. Finders
- "Dad... I'm an Entrepreneur" Break the "Good" News this Holiday
- Creating A Customer Experience
- Make ‘em Want to Sleep with Your Business
- “Dad I Told You I Needed That Deal Closed Today!”
- Email Is One of the Entrepreneurs Most Powerful Tools
- When Does Work Start/Stop For You?
- How are You Catering to the Need for Convenience? part 2
- One of Those Days
- Want to Become Rich? Then Make it A Goal
- Drowning In a Great Investment
- How Are You Catering to the Need for Convenience? Part 1
- If You Need Something Done, Do It Yourself
- Chicken-Less Soup for the Entrepreneurial Flu
- Walamu Prepares For Battle
- Tis the Season
- Sometimes Deals Will Find You, So Be Ready
- D2D Will Store Your Dorm Items
- Scholarships Around The US
- Noteplates.com For Sale -- Selling and Purchasing Notes Made Simple
- Trust Me – You Can’t Afford It!
- Mind Transformation
- ACOLLEGE TRADE for Students… And Parents Too?
- Take Care of Your Employees
- The Secret: Unlock The Power of Your Mind
- Some People Have Been Skipping Constructive Criticism 101
- Why is College work So Mindless, Sometimes.
- YouTube Your Business Baby!
- Benefits of Young Entrepreneurship
- Which One Are You?
- Jonathan Soares -- BBQ Sauce Young Entrepreneur
- Dear Santa,
- Don’t Be Realistic, Create Your Own Reality!
- Don’t Wiggle
- Don't be Scared, It May Kill Ya
- icraveWordPress for your Blog
- Holiday Spirits
- Do You Believe in Failure?
- Do I Bombard The Professors or The Students with My Service?
- Blah Blah Blah
- Facing Foreclosure at a College Real Estate Class
- When the Dog Eats Your Homework
- Students Need Extra Cash – Who’s Going to Step Up with A Service?
- Interest and Foreclosure Rates Rise and Entrepreneurs Capitalize
- Stop Living Life Like You’re in a Boardroom 24/7/365
- Manhattan Is An Island: Wakeup Silly!
- Smile Until You're Happy
- So You Loss-But Did You Really Lose?
November 2006
- Cheese Intervention
- Sometimes You'll Need To Sell Out
- Prepare For the Worst While Expecting the Best
- Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech
- Law of Attraction - Michael Losier (Making the Secret Work)
- Mind Petals Starts Young Entrepreneur Group on facebook
- Your Own Boss -- Your Own Worst Enemy
- Personality Goes a Long Way
- When Mom and Dad Want More than Just Your Happiness
- The Secret -- DOPE Deleted Sequence
- Chegg is Throwing Eggs: The College Classified Battle Ensues…
- Entrepreneurship While Working
- The Secret Riches Visualization Tool
- Holiday Debrief
- Law of Attraction: What You Think is What You Get
- You Must Stay In the Game
- Quotations from "The Secret"
- 20 Hot Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
- Building a Company: Building a Legacy
- Questions Questions More Questions!
- Another College Classified Gets Added to the Mix: CollegeMedium
- But I Wanted to Make Pumpkin Rissoto
- What do your colors say about you?
- Moo Business Cards are Super Hot!
- A Word from Corporate America
- You Get What You Pay For?
- Don't Settle
- Using Me Inc. Literally
- Surround Yourself with Greatness
- Oh, What's in a Name?
- Keep Your Mouth Shut
- So Opportunity Knocked...and I Waited a Week to Answer the Door
- Are You the Only Entrepreneur in the Family?
- Yes, Unique is the New Same
- You Can Learn a lot From a Dummy!
- The Sun'll come out...
- Sometimes You Have to Lose Money to Learn
- Weird is Normal and Normal is Weird: How to Have a Normal Social Life
- Taking Care of Business
- Carpet Baggers
- Making a Solid Cold Call (Part III: Wrapping Up the Call, Sending Literature and Appointment Setting)
- The Individual
- Listen Up and Shut Up --It Could Save Your Career
- Seeing Failure as Opportunity
- Young Entrepreneurs making Cash from Site Networks
- Making a Solid Cold Call (Part II: The Body of the Call)
- The Wheel of Fortune Forbids...
- Let it Be
- JetBlue: Life as a CEO
- Friends, Family, and Professors Can Help Your Venture for Free
- Dump the Strategy
- Making a Solid Cold Call (Part I: The Introduction to the Call)
- The Big Meeting
- Being A Greedy Entrepreneur Rocks!
- Follow Up or Follow Out
- The Latte Factor
- Find a Pattern That Works
- Rules Are Made to be Broken
- Stop Guessing: Things Should Be Clear from the Start
- Teach Your Parents Well
- NAVIGATING THE VORTEX
- Phone, Email and Fax-Total Deal Making Machines!
- I Will See It When I Belive It
- Spot That Perfect Employee From A Million Miles Away
- 5 Steps to Closing a Sale (part 5)
- Point of Contact
- Right Left Up Down Back Forward
- Avoid Deal Attachment Syndrome
- The Wisdom of Our Elders
- Plant Those Seeds and Watch Your Ideas Grow
- What I Wish I'd Learned in College
- Write a fan Letter
- 5 Steps to Closing a Sale (part 4)
- Relationship vs Expertise
- Cut Out the Middle-Crook
- A Jack-of-All-Trades is Master of None
- So What Will You Do After You Graduate?
- Witching Hour
- Watch Your Back
- Break the Let Down Cycle
- Get Excited!
- Is Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend an Entrepreneur Too?
- 5 Steps to Closing a Sale (part 3)
- Talk to Me People
- The Power of Repetition
- Work/Life Balance
- The Virtue of Patience
- Technology is a Beautiful Thing
- Live A Lot!!
- Stop Waiting for Your Buddies, Go At it Alone!
- Just for Research
- 5 Steps to Closing a Sale (part 2)
- Would You Work Your Business for Free?
- Homework assignment:
October 2006
- Designing Successful Products
- 5 Steps to Closing a Sale
- Pole Vaulting the Competition
- The Square Pumpkin
- Your Venture Should be Like Water
- Warning: Flash Flooding!
- A Piece of that Pie
- All Night Diet
- Sex Sells!
- Difficult Negotiations
- Does Working At Home Make You Insane?
- Effective Article Marketing for Free Targeted Web Traffic
- Don’t Become Vision and Mission Impossible
- Blood from a Stone
- Defining Company Culture
- It’s Halloween Weekend: Have Fun & Market Your Business
- It Is All Shelly's Idea
- Will Work for Food (?)
- Professional Looking Websites for Under $100
- You Are What You Eat
- Fear Is the Enemy!
- The Fun Factor
- Work/Life Balance
- Top 10 Free Website Promotion Sources
- You Can Account On It
- Is There A Grayscale to Entrepreneurship?
- Daily Conditioning Mantra for the Over-Accomodating Entrepreneur
- Investing and Partnering Offers Growth Opportunity
- An Unseen Goldmine for U.S. Based Bootstrappers
- Are You A Wantapreneur?
- Girl Preneurs Dish Out Delicious Sustainability
- Using Networking for Good not Evil
- Entrepreneurship is a Means to an End
- Working Through Stress
- Change the World for the Better (part 4)
- Cold Calling Techniques: Bypass the Gatekeeper
- Individual vs. Company
- “Goo Goo Ga Ga” Mommy Talk for the Entrepreneur (Part 2)
- Content is King: Use Craigslist to Find Some Writers (part 3)
- Pitch Like a Girl
- Hunger and Thirst for Knowledge
- Fate And Fortune (part 2)
- Content is King: Use Craigslist to Find Some Writers (part 2)
- Some Mommy Talk for the Entrepreneur (part 1)
- Top 5 Bootstrapping Mistakes
- Follow Your Passions
- Meet the Mind Petals Columnist
- Strive to Create a Business-Instead of a Job
- What do you do when your consumers grow up?
- Fate and Fortune (part 1)
- Importance of Experience
- Content is King: Use Craigslist and Find Some Writers (part 1)
- It's a Celebration of Mediocrity -- and We're All Invited!
- 5 Ways to Make Your Mark
- Stay True To Yourself and Your Ideas
- Three Card Monty
- Don’t Listen To Your Parents!
- It's not what you know...
- Mixing Business with Pleasure
- Procrastination Kills Brain Cells (or at least wastes them)
- Profiles of Entrepreneurs
- Go Somewhere: Clear Your Mind Cache
- Do What You Love (part 3)
- Why Do People Buy?
- How to Let Good Advice Into Your Life
- To Party or Handle Business?-That's the Question!
- Know a Bit About Everything
- For Sale: Classhelpers.com
- Warning: Idea Thieves Come from the Best Places!!
- Jeff Hawkins: What is an entrepreneur?
- Back in the Habit
- If You are Going to Stalk Anything - Make it Trends
- Counting Pennies!
- Form contracts -- Use them at your own risk !
- Local vs. International Philanthropy
- Balance in the Books
- Why Don’t We Use Contracts?
- Add a Bit of Glamor to Your Side-Job-Life
- At Least Keep the Important Balls Up in The Air!
- Don’t Forget To Reach Back For Others
- Ways to Make Surveys For Your Business
- The Facebook Book: Inside Facebook
- 4 Tips on Marketing Your Company to College Students
- The Responsibility of the "Have's" Towards the "Have Not's"
- A New Market is Exploding - Are You Taking Advantage?
- The Need For History and Authenticity
- Horse Trading
- Demand Respect!!!
- Is Sugar Sweet? – How to Make Your Service Communications More Palatable
- Maybe Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket is Good
- When Opportunity Knocks -- Answer Your Door
- Beware of the "Wanna Be"!
- Whether It’s Broke or Not-Fix It!
- Sustainability for Non-Profit Organizations
- If You Cannot Sell It, Give It Away
- Confidence is Showing Your Humanity
- The Current Need For the True Spirit of Entrepreneurship
- Don't You Just Hate the Bureaucratic Bullshit?
- Turning Technical Difficulties into Triumphs
- Discussing Client Matters in Public? Think Again.
- A Mean, Green, Selling Machine!
- Be Smart (part 2)
- The College Textbook Market and Daniel Scudder of DormItem
- Examples of Social Entrepreneurs
- Don’t be Scared to be CRAZY
- Marketing Motivation
- Know When to Throw In the Towel!
- Make Lists. Ask Questions.
- No One Like NOLO
- Three Examples of Why You Must Do What You Love
- College Student Entrepreneurs Better be Hungry – and not just for FOOD!
- Memorialize that Deal in Writing!
- Temporary Hell at "The Man's" Office
- What to do when your internet goes out (besides spending 2 hours on the phone reaming out your service provider).
- Creating Winning Headlines
- Using A Lease To Operate A Venture!
- Beware the Monopolist
- Challenging the Traditional Model of Philanthropy
- Vote on Some Hotties with Miss Facebook
- Business Student vs. The “Do-what-I-want” Entrepreneur
- Avoiding the Marketing Treadmill
- Women Drive Change in Their Circumstances and Communities
- Multi-Venturing
- Walking Many Paths
- Your College Startup Better Be Simple, Sweet, & Sexy
- Distributing Capital: Using an Exisiting, Well Informed Network
- Adaptability Equals Survival.
- Use the Exotic to Your Advantage
- Uncle Sam Could Equal Big Dough!
- Know When to Dump Them
- Money Talks, so Cut the Partnership Bullshit
- Early Investors in Global Fund for Women
- Death by Lack of Information
- Dreaming, Are You Up for the Challenge?
- Running Your Own business is Hard (part 1)
- Warning: Don't be a Victim of Intellectual Rape
- The Story of Global Fund for Women
- Broaden Your Scope, Become a Guest Speaker
- Set Goals and Stick to Them
- Exactly What it Says
- Never Stop Connecting People to People
- Focus Pocus: Positive Energy for Positive Results
- Definition of Entrepreneurship
- Become a Columnist Today
- Make Your Venture Mobile, Professional and Connected
- Corporate Cocaine
September 2006
- Neither Borrower Nor Lender Be
- How do you become an expert?
- Experience Is Overrated
- Entrepreneurship: Born or Bred?
- Teach to Learn
- Coping With Feast and Famine
- Please, Stop Focusing Your Business around Books
- Should You Mix Business with Family?
- How Do You Find Soul Mates?
- Best Laid Plans
- Collaborative Note Taking with NoteMesh
- Lessons Learned
- How Do You Find Evangelists?
- Turning Small Talk into Business
- Duality
- Firsts
- Funding Choices
- 3 Reasons Why You Can't Afford a Slow Connection
- Start-Up by Numbers
- Dave Cool Talks Indie Continued
- Want to Start a Business, but Where’s your Follow-Through?
- The Mondays
- Dave Cool talks Indie
- Don't Underestimate the Value of Competent Legal Counsel
- Be a Mensch
- That One May Smile, and Smile, and be a Villain
- One Web Day Continued
- How Much?
- Say When
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
- One Web Day
- Seed the Clouds and Watch the Sales Grow
- Music as a Tool for Entrepreneurs
- Barter Power
- Lower the Barriers to Adoption
- More on Brand Naming
- Oscar the Grouch
- Freebies
- Afforded Luxury and Budgeted Necessity
- Hat Trick
- Who to Hire
- Help an Entrepreneur in Need with Kiva
- Take the Challenge with Journey Page
- Structured Success
- Make a Great Pitch
- The Crazy World of Music
- Reciprocity
- Give to Caesar what is Caesar's...
- Chris Gardner Smashing Through all Obstacles
- For Starters
- What is Marketing?
- Know Thyself, and Niche Thyself
- Weave a MAT and Outline Your Priorities
- Brand Suicide
- America's Best Young Entrepreneurs
- Golden Numbers
- What’s does “Entrepreneur” Mean?
- The New Business Model
- How do I Choose a Brand Name?
- Lessons From Fashion Week
- Talk It Up
- 9rules Business Community
- Get Up and Get Going!
- Meeting Entrepreneurs with Meetup
- In a Word...
- Taking a Walk Down Trizoko Lane
- Don't Just Sit There - Do Something!
- Don't Write a Mission Statement, Write a Mantra
- Sponsorship
- That Book by that Guy
- Copy is good… Effective Copy is KING
- How are Entrepreneurs Staying Organized?
- Make Meaning in Your Company
- Welcome to the Jungle
- Entrepreneurs and Wine
- 5 Things A Day, Keeps the Creditors at Bay
- Education: Importance of Peers
- What's the best way to fire someone?
- Just Notes
- Wash n Fold has the Idea
- Entrepreneurs Thinking about Self Publishing?
- Choosing 'Good Enough' over 'Great'
- Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow
- Location, Location, Location
- OnStartups Community
- Ideas: What Makes Them Successful?
- Partner Up
- Go BIG Network Lookin' a bit SMALL
- Math and the Merchent
- More on Endorsements
- To Get an MBA or Not?
- Abracadabra
- Kudos to Kauffman eVenturing
- Packaging Your Success
- Selling the Dream
- Bootstrapping at BootStrapMe
- Rich Dad Community
- Collateral Damage
- Listen to Customers
- Lessons from the US Open
- Business 2.0 Magazine Rocks!
- Education
- 10 Ways Silicon Valley 4.0 Will Not Happen
August 2006
- Stagnation = Damnation
- Oddly Enough...
- Follow the Startup Process: Bare Naked App
- Gotta have a Gimmick
- Silicon Valley 4.0
- Success is not a Solo Project
- RoundOne Entrepreneur Community
- Passion vs. Money
- Pocket Philosophy
- Endorsements = Credibility = Success
- SME Toolkit
- Entrepreneurs: Then and Now
- Facebook Helping Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurship Forums Everywhere you Go
- Creating a Branded Brand
- Not All Help is Good Help
- The Importance of a Good Presentation
- Garage Technology Ventures Introduction
- Young Go Getter
- The Last on Loyalty
- What Do You Know...?
- Remaining Loyal to Loyalty
- Ask, and Ye Shall Receive
- Dressing to Impress for Less
- A Loyal Follower
- Mind Petals gets Juxtaviewed!
- Pocket Plant Launches
- The cost of doing business
- University Venture Fund
- The Power of the Blog
- Some Brilliant Assistance
- Making Alliances
- Student Entrepreneur Programs
- Catch 22
- bizMAVERICKS are Rockin’ on Myspace
- Price Wars
- Find