If you are a consultant or aspire to be one, one of the greatest assets you can bring to bear for your clients is the ability to deliver fresh, good ideas that are relevant to their business. Your ideas may not be entirely new to you, but they often will be to your customer. Original …Read More
Busy or Productive
December 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
We all have those days where we busy to the point of exhaustion (today was one for me hence this blog entry). But how often do you stop and ask yourself if you are being productive or just busy? In 4 Hour Work Week Tim Ferris intelligently suggest that asking this single question several times …Read More
Write It Down
December 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It never fails to amaze me how many entrepreneurs fail to put things in writing and I’m not just talking about contracts. The act of writing down your ideas, documenting processes, writing a business plan, template sales letters and everything else forces us to view things differently than if we just “think” about them. The …Read More
Using Market Forces to Your Advantage
December 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
In conjunction with a long time friend, business partner and physician, Dr. Brad Bichey, M.D., we recently released a whitepaper entitled “Using Market Forces to Drive a Competitive Edge.” While the paper is targeted at medical and life sciences companies, the principals can be applied to almost any business. When markets turn down belt tightening …Read More
Start Up Business Tips: The Law
December 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I recently had an opportunity to attend a breakfast meeting sponsored by NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology). The breakfast was an opportunity for start-ups and entrepreneurs to learn about the legal considerations when forming a new company, including the preferred types of corporations, handling intellectual property and being prepared for your exit …Read More
Killing the Killer: Complacency
November 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I read a great story this morning that is somewhat true while inaccurate in it’s factual details. But for the purposes of this discussion the accuracy of the details isn’t what’s important (visit Snopes if you want to know more). Even as a fictional story it does an excellent job of illustrating how complacency can …Read More
Focus on the Future
November 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
One of the central issues that plagues many of us when starting or running a business is focus. It’s easy to be distracted by new ideas, other things we “need” to do, our rationalized distractions or other obligations. When I decided to redo my site and focus on small business and helping others with theirs, …Read More
