Here’s to us the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.The troublemakers. ( video)

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing [...]

#YearInReview What I shipped/achieved/completed in 2010 a la Seth Godin

Sometimes you gotta write it out to really see it. Seth Godin’s blog this morning encourages his readers to list what they have shipped in 2010, which means what it is you have achieved, completed in 2010. It prompted me to do just that, as sometimes as entrepreneurs we tend to be hard on ourselves [...]

Desperate Social Media Tactics. Ugh!

I’m tired of seeing it, so I just have to say it. I don’t care which brand you’re putting out there, but you have no business conducting Facebook giveaways when you’re on there for less than 30 days, you have just 150 fans and most importantly as is evident- no plan. Is that the only [...]

Oprah’s take on the “call” that must underlie your entrepreneurship and when I found mine

Oprah Winfrey, the leadership and media empire brand was made into an entrepreneurial case study at Harvard Business School. During the process, she decided to visit and sit in a class, talk to students and answer questions. In one of those sessions she shared this: “If you only desire to make money, you can do [...]

The new economics of Entrepreneurship

….this pesky recession we’re in. It’s the worst time ever to start a company, right? Only if you’re not an entrepreneur. If you are an entrepreneur, the economics have never been better: * Talent is free or cheap. Sorry, I’m not a warm and fuzzy guy, but the truth is that there are lots of [...]

46 social media sites for Caribbean entrepreneurs

We found this list on venturebeat.com and added our Caribbean information to it for our global Caribbean audience.They had 25 social media sites. We added 21 Caribbean Social Media sites to make it more useful for us. If you’re a entrepreneur who has been seduced by social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, [...]

A Word to the Wise Entrepreneur: Your Expectations

If you are going to be an entrepreneur don’t expect all of your businesses/ideas to do well. What’s probably going to happen is that your first few businesses are going to fail because you’ll make a lot of mistakes, and your next few will do well. The longer you stick with being an entrepreneur, the [...]

The Thank You Economy: How Business Must Adapt to Social Media