Do Your Business Your Own Way
Today, a national day-after-national-holiday day, a shopping day, frenetic parking lots near stores and empty offices, it’s a good reminder. You’re an entrepreneur, involved in a startup or small business, presumably, or you wouldn’t be reading this blog. Did you manage to take the day off yesterday? Were you able to spend time with your family without obsessing about your business? Don’t swallow the passion-persistence-perseverance myth whole, unless you’re sure that’s what you really want. Bootstrapping isn’t a bad option. Take it slowly, digest it, use whatever part of it works for you. Don’t become a slave to your business. Let t

5 Ways to Get Mobile Into Your Business Plan
We all know there’s a huge boom on in mobile computing and mobile marketing, but does that mean you either develop phone applications or look on from the sidelines longingly? Not hardly. I read How to get in on the Mobile boom on VentureBeat yesterday. What I like about that post

Buy This Product That Doesn’t Work (Yet)
I was searching for an iPhone keyboard because I’d like one. The idea of taking just the iPhone on business travel is attractive to me, but without a keyboard, forget it. So I searched and came up with this. In case you can’t read it (I shrunk the page to fit here), it’s saying that this keyboard connect to the iPhone via bluetooth, but not on any currently available iPhone. It says you can add your name to the list of people waiting to buy it.

Looking Far, Far Ahead
Steve Jurvetson, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, one of the oldest and best known venture capital firms, talks here about the Ray Kurzweil interpretation of Moore’s Law. From the intro: … which retroactively looks at the evolution of technology and the economy in terms of the numbers of possible calculations possible for a thousand dollars for the past hundred years. Of interest to the entrepreneur, Jurvetson points out that of global, social, and economic factors over time, there seems to be no coupling with the evolution of technology. Despite a poor economy, recessionary concerns, wars and political unrest, cites Jurvetson, technology continues to evolve at

Build Your Business Webinar Thursday Nov. 19
Please join me tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 19, on a webinar about using proper business planning techniques to actually build your business, not just your business plan. That’s happening online for an hour beginning at 11 a.m. PST, which is 2 pm EST and 1 pm CST. You can click here to register. The actual URL is www.bplans.com/webinar/