Pamela Slim, author of the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog and coach of wannabe entrepreneurs, provides practical, how-to information to help frustrated corporate employees break out and start their own business. She covers the awkward area between deciding that you cannot stand being in a cube another day and figuring out everything necessary to make your new business happen.
Every entrepreneur knows the hustle of getting tax information together to prepare for end of year tax returns. While in the middle of gathering docum...
I have long been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell's book Tipping Point, in particular, the "Connectors, Mavens and Salesmen" chapter where he talks about dif...
Whenever we set out to make things better in our lives -- improve our career, grow our business, get in shape, make a bigger impact in the world -- fe...
When I first started writing about small business marketing many years ago, one of the first people I heard about was John Jantsch of Duct Tape Market...
Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. Such things rarely happ...
I have always been a huge fan of underdogs. Josh Shipp started his life without a safety net. Abandoned at birth by his mother, he spent most of his y...
When you think about it, navigating your life is a series of negotiations. In the course of a day, you may try to influence: Your new puppy to use the...
There are some people I meet who I instantly feel not just a connection with, but true kinship. Todd Henry is one of these people. I first met him whe...
Many years ago, when I was in the early years of blogging at Escape from Cubicle Nation, I heard about a young man named Dan Schawbel who was writing ...
Imagine that you are driving down the road and you get a call from your office that a VC is interested in talking to you about investing in your busin...