The beauty of failure

The beauty of failure

The fear of failure could be paralyzing, yet without experimenting and risking failure, innovation doesn’t thrive. Playing “it” safe would have never yielded the Model T Ford, the pacemaker or the personal computer. Remember the goal, whether launching the company,...
What I learned at summer camp

What I learned at summer camp

Swimming in a bucolic lake, rustic log cabins, fresh mountain air, trapeze acrobatics, bubble soccer and silent disco. Throw in world renowned speakers and uber-successful entrepreneurs and, yup, this is summer camp for entrepreneurs! There is nothing like freeing...

Embracing the Gig Economy

The Gig Economy – nope, it is not science fiction but rather a growing segment of laborers who have inadvertently become entrepreneurs and are spurring the economy. According to new statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 30,174 “nonemployer” firms...

The dating rules of banking

Over and over I’m asked about loans, regaled with complaints of relationships gone awry — prompting this particular column. Banking doesn’t need to be so complicated and laborious. First, banking is just like dating. You may prefer brunettes, slender, dark skin, short...