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I Failed My Way to Success – Take 2

December 6th, 2011 No comments

It seems yesterday’s post had a few technical problems (well human technical problems) and the core part of the article didnt actually make it to posting. So I thought i would repost the article again.

Recently we closed down some of our businesses. These closures were pure because the business model and products that we were working on were just not working. That is life. Things work and things don’t. However, what was interesting for me was that one of the blogs picked up that we had closed some of our businesses and many of the comments were negative and critical of us failing. It was then that I remember the Thomas Edison quote of “I failed my way to success”.

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I Failed My Way to Success

December 5th, 2011 1 comment

Recently we closed down some of our businesses.  These closures were pure because the business model and products that we were working on were just not working.  That is life.  Things work and things don’t.  However, what was interesting for me was that one of the blogs picked up that we had closed some of our businesses and many of the comments were negative and critical of us failing.  It was then that I remember the Thomas Edison quote of “I failed my way to success”.

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How to Become an Entrepreneur

May 18th, 2009 3 comments

I recently received the following email from a reader about becoming an entrepreneur.

I want to become an entrepreneur but I have no prior business experience. I have been researching possible business products and ideas. What is the best advice could you give to people like me with burning desire to become an entrepreneur but have no prior business experience? What are the things I can do to accelerate my learning curve?

Having been an entrepreneur for a while, here are my ideas about what it takes to become one.

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