Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneurship’
Here’s How Bezos, Zuckerberg & Others Find Life-Work Balance
Remote working has always been challenging. Now, with a pandemic turning the world on its head and throwing distractions, school closures, and enforced working from home into the mix, trying to be productive has never been so difficult. Before lockdown commenced, WD Storage were working on some content to help employees find a manageable work…
Read MoreHere’s All It Takes to Be A Successful Entrepreneur
I’m by no means a high flying entrepreneur. I’m simply a small business owner who has seen and experienced a tiny amount of entrepreneurship, running a digital marketing agency. I seek to learn from my mistakes, and wish to impart what I’ve learnt to advice aspiring minds who are eager to start their own businesses.…
Read More10 Essential Personality Traits, Qualities, and Skills of an Entrepreneur
If you have considered starting your own business, you may be wondering if you have what it takes to become successful. Are entrepreneurs born predestined for success, or did they work hard to become the best version of themselves to achieve their goals? The answer is both. In this post, we’re going to look at…
Read More6 Things That Really Irritate Entrepreneurs
Becoming an entrepreneur isn’t always as glamorous as it may seem. Some ambitious professionals are blinded by the desire to utter the words, “I’m a business owner”, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Although being a successful entrepreneur comes with plenty of clout and financial freedom, it takes hard work to get…
Read MoreHow To Change Your Perspective And Create Innovation
In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. What established businesses know through experience keeps them from looking for the new and innovative ways to do what they do better, cheaper, and faster. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building…
Read More10 Timeless First Principles Of A Prosperous Business
In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. As an angel investor and a mentor…
Read MoreHow the Right Employees Have an Innovation Advantage
Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation. We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In fact,…
Read MoreTop Entrepreneurial Industries
Entrepreneurs are typically the vanguard of change. They develop innovative products and services, create new ways of getting things done, and lead the post-industrial economy into previously unexplored territory. As entrepreneurs engage in evolving industries, they inevitably bring with them ideas, capital and other resources that generate momentum. The financial risks may be huge. But…
Read MoreHow Entrepreneurship Can Promote Economic Development
The hallmark of an economically developed country is its high rates of employment, a lower disparity in incomes, high standard of living for every member of the society, better opportunities for learning, and development, to name a few. Every country strives to gain economic development. One of the best ways for a country to achieve…
Read MoreWhy You Should Avoid Entrepreneurship
It is a ride many people dream about and most wish they had never gotten on. This article was written for visionaries and masochists alike. During a particularly tough business cycle, I asked my friend and mentor Rick Voirin about whether it was the right time for me to change the direction of one of…
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