Experience is the best teacher. In this Entrepreneurship Interview Series, we’re going to share stories from your peers about their lessons learned as successful entrepreneurs. Enjoy this inspiring story about courage, challenge, and staying true to yourself in our interview with Shaun Trudell. Shaun is the President of Automation Arts, an AV technologies firm in […]
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Will you be able to walk away? When is the right time to take a step back and leave your business? Is it at a certain age? When you reach a certain level of wealth? Or will you never be fully out? When business owners decide to leave their business, they will fall into one […]
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Experience is the best teacher. In this Entrepreneurship Interview Series, we’re going to share stories from your peers about their lessons learned as successful entrepreneurs. Here we speak with Jon Aleckson, Ph.D., the CEO of Web Courseworks, an educational technologies company. In this interview, you’ll learn about Jon’s crossroads moment and the importance of making […]
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It’s incredible to think that business owners choose to work painstakingly in their businesses for 30 years to accumulate value — oftentimes, at the expense of their health, their personal desires, and even their own sanity. And then in the span of 18 months, they lose most, if not all, of the business’s terminal value, […]
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My family recently took a spring break vacation together. It was a great time to get away, unplug, and relax. While enjoying time on the beach, I noticed several people meeting with salespeople from the resort we were staying at. They were selling those infamous vacation timeshares. This was an eye-opening experience for me, but […]
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Tax season is right around the corner. Whether you normally do your taxes on your own or have someone do them for you, there is a lot of work that goes into getting everything together. As a business owner, there are expense slips to find, invoices to gather, and inventory to be taken. This can […]
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Ever wondered at what age you should retire? You and many other people have the same simple question. However, the answer is not so simple. There are various formulas and beliefs about the magical age at which a person should retire and how much they should have saved by that point. The reality is that […]
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Have you ever heard of Shark Tank? Nothing to do with diving deep into the ocean to watch sharks lurk about from behind bars. We’re talking about the hit ABC television show with business men and women looking to gain investments in their homegrown products and services. In the show, aspiring entrepreneurs have the chance […]
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It can be hard to get an early jump on things. Back in school, our teachers would tell us to start researching early so we would have all the information we needed to write a good essay on time. Most high schoolers don’t listen to that advice. Many could write a decent essay with some […]
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Sure, some lucky people do get rich quickly. People do win lotteries, hit the jackpot on the slot machine, and even pick the “right” stock at the “right” time, turning their investment into a potential fortune overnight. But these fairy tales rarely come true. More often, we achieve our financial and personal goals when following […]
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