Building a Business
Entreprenurial Heroes
A great resource that I stumbled on today is a podcast series produced by the National Center for Women in Technology, or NCWIT. The podcast, Entreprenurial Heroes, is a series of twenty short interviews with women entrepreneurs in high tech. The one I listened to this evening is with Heidi Roizen, Managing Director of Mobius…
Read MoreA Bigger Voice
In November 2007, I blogged about my experience at the Dreaming Room, talking about the process of dreaming and manifesting the dream, but not what the dream is for me. It’s taken me longer than I thought to flesh out my dream and now I’m ready to go public. The business, A Bigger Voice, will…
Read MoreLife Imitating Art Imitating Life
On a recent visit to Starbuck’s, I put on my biz owner hat to see what I could learn from one of the icons in entrepreneurship. I noticed the non-coffee, non-edible items that Starbuck’s sells—beautiful coffee mugs, CDs, books on organic farming, and board games. I got the sense that I was on a movie…
Read MoreDreaming Room
I recently attended a Dreaming Room, conducted by Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited, and a long-time expert on small biz. I previously reported on a one-day seminar with Gerber. While the one-day is the appetizer, the two and a half-day workshop is the full meal. Being exposed to Michael Gerber’s ideas on life…
Read MoreNiches
Great post by Seth Godin on picking a niche. Makes me think of something my husband has been saying, half-joking, to me for several years, ever since I left the engineering profession: "Honey, I don’t know what you do, but whatever it is, you’re the best in the world at it." BTW–Godin’s most recent book,…
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