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Category: Entrepreneurship

Traits that Separate the Best from the Rest – Part II

You’ve already learned, by reading Part I, the enormous difference in taking advantage of a home business opportunity, running a home-based business and having a career as a successful home-based business entrepreneur. Some of the factors that have been mentioned previously that determine which category you will land in include integrity, loving what you do, grabbing positive attention and planning.

Traits that Separate the Best from the Rest – Part I

That feeling that comes from being able to fire your boss and set out as an entrepreneur as the business mind behind your own home-based business is enough motivation to fuel the ship, so to speak.

It does take more than that, though, to be successful. Anyone, technically, can take advantage of a home business opportunity. There is a huge difference in taking advantage of a home business opportunity, running a home-based business and having a career as a successful home-based business entrepreneur. Aside from integrity, which was covered in a recent piece you should certainly review, there are plenty of other factors that determine where you will fall within these categories.

Success stories: JayZ and Warren Buffet…

In investments, what you need is emotional stability. You have to be able to think independently, and when you come to a conclusion you have to really not care what other people say. Just follow the facts and your reasoning.

…There’s a whole bunch of things I don’t know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence. Tom Watson [IBM founder] said it best. He said, “I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.”

Justin Bieber and Entreprenuership

When I first came across the TechCrunch article titled “What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber” I really did not pay that much attention to it. I knew there was a Justin Bieber movie out in theaters and I just thought this was link bait. It took someone else talking about the article that [...]

This is the right time to buy a business

I am in the market for a good business. Of course I am not talking of a million dollar business, although this is a very good time to buy for those with the capital. I saved a few bucks to buy myself a good internet based business. I initially saved the money to start a [...]

Bring on the entreprenuers

Bring on the entrepreneurs! This is the tag line and focus of  the July/August 2010 edition of Inc. Magazine. The magazine presented a  ” highly practical, eminently doable, totally reasonable plan to revitalize the American dream.” The several ideas in their main articles resonated with me mostly because I do fit into several of the [...]

Failure is good, especially if it takes long?

I have been trying (more of positioning myself) to get into business as soon as an opportunity arises. I firmly believe that entrepreneurship runs in my DNA (My parents for a long time had a poultry business and it served as the major source of income for our family.) Now that I am out of [...]