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Reader Submissions: Tell Your Entrepreneurship Story

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We know the accolades due Steve Jobs for the iPod, Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook, Jeff Bezos for Amazon, and the rest of the dozens of world famous business magnates who made a difference in the culture and the way we live over the past 10 years. But we can learn just as much from the less famous people who solved a problem by starting a business and created huge opportunities for themselves and others in the process. So now's your chance to tell your entrepreneurship story.

All it Takes is a Phone and an Internet Connection

I knew that when I started the company, I had to go into the industry with a clear goal that was aimed to redefine the entire vertical. I used to look at other staffing firm's websites in complete aw…More

Online Business Can Provide an Exit from the Rat Race

I read Robert Kiyosaki's #1 Bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! And I wanted to share some pearls of wisdom I learned from…More

An 81-Year Old Gal On How to Succeed in a Man's World

Utilizing my comic personality,making buyers & customers always put them and myself at ease. I learned all about the products I sold at the retail level, always in my own way found out something of t…More

You Gotta Believe!

The key to a part of my success was the inner being to continuously grow each and every day. The constant demand of yourself to keep at it and to plant seeds and to have the belief that it will come …More

Investors are Not Your Friends

I had no money of my own to invest, I had never written a business plan and I had no experience running a business, but I had produced a number of television programs and series and I understood budg…More

The K.I.S.S. Method

Over the many years of working both in house and externally for consulting firms, I created a process that is simple, easy and takes minimum to no time to develop, implement and be actionable on imme…More

When the Going Gets Tough....

I left my service with this belief that my project will be financed by my other two partners with the same company but the day I left service they turned their back, I was left with no way out but I …More

If You Have an Idea, Just Go for It!

Firstly, I made a picture of it in my mind, I worked on my computer for 1 week, putting together a series of topics based on what the company needed in order to keep their staff's English level on to…More

Specialize - And Charge for It!

I began by doing work for free to help friends, family, and nonprofit organizations. These business owners told other people about my work. When a large law firm contacted me to help them get their w…More

Not Taking a Layoff Lying Down

As is the case for most entrepreneurs, this is my second time around at running my own business. Prior to accepting full-time employment, I ran my business, same as I am now doing, but I then offered…More

Second Time Around

This is my second go around as an entrepreneur. The first was during my last few months of graduate school. A classmate and myself started a patented technology brokerage firm. We ran that business f…More

Don't Let People Tell You "You Can't"

I started to make cold sales calls to my future customers. I went out day after day. I kept on persisting going back even knowing that I wasn't getting work from them. I eventually started to get wor…More

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