Tags: Entrepreneurship entrepreneu 1.     Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public. You’ll learn the trial and error that went into finding that golden idea. 2.     Timothy Sykes - Author of An American Hedge Fund Why

8221;)  I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done.  Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right.  Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it.  This is part of my Startup Advice series. I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI.  (In

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). These would-be entrepreneurs are best classified as Wantrepreneurs, as discussed in Entrepreneurial Enterviewing . This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post. “You You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized

Tags: entrepreneur stealt If you’re reading Mixergy, I know you routinely work hours that most people don’t know exist. Imagine if you spent all that time building your business–plus risked your money–and customers hated what you built. Want to learn how to protect yourself from that devastation?

Henk didn't invent Tetris, but he's the entrepreneur who went into the Soviet Union to win the rights to the game, and he's the man who made it a world-wide phenomenon that's still going strong, even though the game was invented back in 1984. This is my entrepreneur coming through. Listen to how Henk kept pushing just a little further When I asked Henk Rogers how he made Tetris a hit, he said "crazy persistence." If you listen to this program, you'll hear how his persistence kept helping him overcome obstacles that would have made others quit.

Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses. When I interviewed Ben Huh , he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Neil Patel told me that Andy isn't just his business advisor, but a life mentor too. In this interview, you'll see why they rave about Andy. ...Tags:

Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work. What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to ensure that their new business proved itself and earned money right from inception.

Within 2 months, the entrepreneurs were profitable. From the company's About page: "We started out as GotVMail Communications in 2003, after identifying the need for an easy-to-use virtual phone system for entrepreneurs that wouldn’t break the bank. ... As And that’s exactly what our service does for entrepreneurs like you: gives you the tools to propel your small business forward." If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew

And one of the requests that I keep getting from people who watch interviews with me talking to venture backed entrepreneurs or to venture capitalists, is, they want to hear from people who built a business from nothing. Guys who are really in there, who were scrappy entrepreneurs. So if an author wants to think of himself as an entrepreneur and get a following Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

Mike Michalowicz is a serial entrepreneur and the author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur . Many wannabe entrepreneurs give up at that point. Housing is often an entrepreneurs’ the single biggest personal expense. Entrepreneurs don’t have those luxuries. You can complain that you don’t have enough money, connections, etc, or you can be scrappy and find a clever way to use the limited resources you’ve got. I