E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

Over next few weeks I intend to go through the stimulus and budget in detail, but my first impression is that the budget is way better thought out than the stimulus. I may not agree with Obama’s priorities, but his approaches make sense. They will result in higher oil prices and students having harder time [...]

[Read more →]

This weekend I got to enjoy a great gypsy jazz party at Lewis’s and met a lot of great people.  After the party died down, Rex has shared something with me that really resonated. As a tennis pro he shares this advice with many of his clients, but it’s such good advice that I wanted to share it with [...]

[Read more →]

The best way to get you feet wet in the business is to start a part time business that fits you. What is the right business for you? It is a business that fits the answers to these questions:
1. What are you good at? What do people ask you to help with? (Sometimes developing those [...]

[Read more →]

The current economic contraction is apparently drawing to a close, with the money markets freeing up, inflation shooting up and unemployment going through the roof (all signs of the beginning of the recovery). That does not mean that our country will not be in for fair amount of pain for the next few years. This [...]

[Read more →]

Business is fundamentally about relationships. If there is no relationship, however shallow, there is no transaction and transactions are at the root of the business. Paranoia makes relationships costly and thus hinders business. But on the other hand, trust that is undeserved is just as bad. In the end of the day the two extremes [...]

[Read more →]