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8 Fascinating Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs, Marketing and Business
With some extra drive time, I caught up on some book reading (or listening in this case). Here are the best so far. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine See the movie and read the book or vice versa. Either way, you’re in for a terrific ride. In a riveting fashion, Michael Lewis describes and…
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Freelancing – while keeping your full-time job
Good post on freelancing by Ryan Robinson on Skillcrush. Want to dip your toes in the entrepreneurial waters by freelancing while keeping your full-time job? You’re not alone — countless other people do, too. But how? Here’s a guest post from Ryan Robinson, an entrepreneur and marketer who teaches people how to create meaningful self-employed careers. (His online courses “The…
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The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Categorizing the problems and small business growth patterns in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent…
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Richard Branson and the mission statement
I am currently reading (and loving) Richard Branson‘s The Virgin Way: Everything I know about leadership. Although I’m six chapters in, this is a book I’m recommending to peers and Branson’s take on the mission statement –of which I found an excerpt on Entrepreneur— really hit home. RICHARD BRANSON Author and Founder of Virgin Group. At some…

