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The 5 Worst Pieces of Advice I Got While Building a $100 Million Company
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » Want to know the number-one way to attract unsolicited advice? Tell people [...]
DIY Low-Tech Hoop Houses: They’re Not Just for Cold Weather!
Hoop houses — this is my third year of using them. The first year, I put hoops over only one raised bed as an experiment. I used a plastic drop cloth for the covering, with various clamps and bricks to hold it in place. I wasn’t completely thrilled with it. During sunny days, even if the temperature was cool, the house would get [...]
Living off the Land in the Alaskan Wilderness
In 1976, my youthful dream started to unfold as I began building my remote fishing lodge, The Talaheim Lodge, in the wilderness of Alaska. Most of the state can’t be reached by road, so many Alaskan fishing lodges, like mine, have to be reached by either helicopter or plane. Everything from a toothpick to a gallon of gasoline has to be [...]
Shamus Jones of Brooklyn Brine: Don't Get Precious with Your Passions
Listen to Ready For Anything podcast Episode 7, with Linda Lacina and Shamus Jones with the audio player below. Picklemakers know their own. They’ve got Popeye-like forearms thanks to lifting massive glassware cases and cucumber bushels day in and day out. There’s usually a faint scent of vinegar surrounding them. [...]
Will Gen Z Fill the Gap in Creative Talent?
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » If you’ve been finding it difficult to fill your open creative positions this [...]
DIY Ring Holder Jewelry Dish
We all have a little clutter around us. Teacup saucers, mugs, plastics figurines, and paint from the backyard DIY you did four years ago. For many of us, living means accumulating, and sometimes there’s just a lot of stuff that’s useful, but not exactly useful to you. Well, what if you could make these things useful again? Welcome to [...]
What You Can Learn from the Startup that Pulled Piano Lessons into the Internet Age
A lot of parents reading this have suffered through childhood piano lessons. They may have been required to take them when they were younger, and/or they may have made their children go through the ritual. I don’t want to give private piano lessons a bad rap here. I’ve played piano virtually all my life and performed Chopin’s [...]
Maximize Your Start-Up Profits by Reducing Your Taxes
The Key is Good Recordkeeping You’ve probably heard the expression, “It’s not what you make; it’s what you keep that matters.” One of the ways you can keep more of your business income is by reducing the taxes you pay. While taxes may not be foremost in your mind this time of year, business people who pay the least tax are those who are [...]
Tips for Self-Published Authors
Self-published authors need to acquire an entrepreneurial mindset. By mid-2014, self-published authors began taking home the bulk of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com, while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers – Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster – combined [...]
The Work Behind Fast-Growing Franchises
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