Building a Business

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were interviewed at the D:All Things Digital conference last week.  The press made a big deal about the two rivals appearing on stage together. The Wall Street Journal, which sponsored the conference, provided an abridged transcript of the interview, highlighting the two reminiscing about the early days of the computer…

I received a post card in the mail from a prominent realtor in my area. The realtor was sponsoring a talk, given by a colleague who is a consultant, author and speaker, on finding your purpose.  The venue was a local loft development where sales of units are ongoing. My reaction? Confusion. How does this…

An update on the posting looking for entreprenurial families. I had contacted several people I know who are either entrepreneurs or work closely with entrepreneurs.  One of them, Kevin Menzie, CEO of Slice of Lime, responded that he did come from a family of entrepreneurs–his father and grandfather had both started engineering firms and numerous…

I had a reporter for Business Week call me this morning. She works in the Small Biz area and is doing a photo essay on entrepreneurial families. See below: The photo essay again is profiling a handful of families in which entrepreneurship seems to run in the DNA — we’re looking for families where several…