Mindblown: a blog about SHY Entrepreneurs.
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How to get a Better Memory for Business and Networking
How many times have you met someone and forgot their name right after they introduced themselves? How often do you forget to do one of the many tasks you wanted to complete in a day? If you are like me these type of things happen on occasion and although they aren’t the end of the…
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Chaos Vs. Bureaucracy
You may not realize this but as an entrepreneur one of your main functions is finding the balance between chaos and bureaucracy. If you take a look at successful organizations you will see they have somehow found a happy medium between these two extremes. It is this balance that allows organizations to flourish and will…
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How to Finance a Small Business
When starting and running a small business the question of how to finance will come up multiple times. There is often an initial startup cost for assets, materials, and initial operations. As the business grows the demands on your company will change and you will again need to look at acquiring more resources. Depending on…
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Steps to Saving a Company, Triage in Business
If your business is seeing trouble times and needs some crisis management here are the steps that will turn things around. In a crisis situation every decision can mean the difference between saving or killing the company. Your job as a business owner is to manage the situation in a way that provides the best…
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Why Additive Manufacturing is Shaping Your Future and What Small Business Can Learn From 3D Printing.
If you haven’t heard by now there is an increasing amount of buzz behind the world of 3D printing. 3D printing, also referred to as; Fused Deposition, Stereo Lithography, Desktop Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, and Selective Laser Sintering is an additive manufacturing process in which material is added layer by layer to produce a desired geometry.…
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The Advantages of a Small Business
It may not be evident at first glance, but small businesses have a huge advantage over large companies in many regards. Small firms don’t have the deep pockets to weather storms, but they do have the flexibility and focus that is not commonly found in larger corporations. This means that the ability to meet the…
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Case Study of a Successful Little Business
I recently had the privilege to review the 10 year performance of a successful little business and want to touch on some of the general business principles that allowed this success. Confidentiality prohibits me from including specific details but you probably don’t care about those anyway; you want to know what you can take away…
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Characteristics of a Good Entrepreneur
Many of my posts stem from ideas or issues that arise in my life, this one is no different. Yesterday a series of events played out that made me want to discuss the characteristics of a good entrepreneur. To be frank these characteristics are also ones found in all productive people. The event yesterday had…
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Lessons Learned from Rental Property.
The last 6 months my life has been consumed by a remodeling project which has taught me a few valuable lessons. I hope to get into the specifics of the project in a later series of posts but for now all you need to know is that we tore a rental house down to the…
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The Goal by Eli Goldratt
Every practitioner of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is familiar with “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – 30th Anniversary Edition” by Eli Goldratt. The book is an oldie but a goodie with the first edition published in 1984. I don’t know that it was Eli’s first book but it is most certainly his…
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