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The Great Corporate Kiss-off! Essay (My Escape from a Paycheck) by Sharon Holbrook
This essay is part of a series we developed where entrepreneurs share their stories about life after corporate America. Enjoy! My Escape from a Paycheck I’m a prisoner….there seems to be no escape. I can’t leave, I make too much money. I can’t stay I’m going out of my mind – what to do? The [...]
Entrepreneur Interview: Sue Ismiel & Daughters
Business Name: Sue Ismiel & Daughters Website URL: www.nads.com Year Founded: 1992 Number of Employees: 50 worldwide What does your company do? Sue Ismiel is the creator of world famous hair removal brand Nad’s. Sue first created Nad’s for her daughter, Natalie when she was unable to find a naturtal hair removal product that doesn’t [...]
The Great Corporate Kiss-off! Essay by Mark Germanos
This essay is part of a series we developed where entrepreneurs share their stories about life after corporate America. Enjoy! What I Would Do Differently If I Were Starting my Business Today I’ve been self-employed more than 10 years. My initiation was very rough. I had some misconceptions that everybody was either a competitor or a [...]
What are Hashtags #Definition #Examples by Joseph Puglisi
There it was. The big news of the day. More Facebook changes? Steve Jobs resigning? Hurricane Irene hitting land? Gaddafi finally cornered? Nope. It was the fourth anniversary of the invention of the #hashtag! What the heck is a hashtag you ask? Well, that is what we will explore in this column. Accomplished social media gurus, [...]
Dead Horse Leadership by Gene Lambert
Are you a boss, or a leader? I’m a huge fan of history. I’m also a student of leadership. I love history because it can teach us so much about business and how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. I learn all I can about leadership versus management. Why? Leadership is teaching and [...]
The Great Corporate Kiss-off! Interview by Katrina Sawa
This interview is part of a series we developed where entrepreneurs share their stories about life after corporate America. Enjoy! What job did you have before you became an entrepreneur? I was a Sales & Marketing Director at a Retirement & Assisted Living Community. Why did you decide to leave your job? Because it was [...]
Translations Gone Bad by Dori Kaplan
Years ago, there were numerous mistakes in Spanish ads and product names and slogans. This was partially due to someone just using a dictionary or using something from memory or asking someone for the translation of a word, not a concept and context. Most of these mistakes could have been avoided by consulting a professional translator. There were [...]
5 Traits of a Successful Entrepreneur by Andrew Rogerson
If you brought ten entrepreneurs together to ask them to make a list of the five most important traits of a successful entrepreneur they would probably finish up with eleven lists. Entrepreneurs don’t like predictability and arriving at simplistic answers. However, if you read each of those eleven lists, I think you would find the [...]
The Great Corporate Kiss-off Interview! by Howard S. Friedman
This interview is part of a series we developed where entrepreneurs share their stories about life after corporate America. Enjoy! What job did you have before you became an entrepreneur? I was a director in the corporate world, running data modeling teams including statisticians, computer programmers and business analysts. Why did you decide to leave [...]
Love the One You’re With by Gene Lambert
Constantly changing technology has created a business world rife with ADD. Computers, smart phones and 15 second TV commercials have turned us all into chronically unfocused serial multi-taskers. Like bees flying from flower to flower in rapid succession, we move from task to task and interaction to interaction at blinding speed. Unlike bees, we rarely [...]
