Entrepreneurial Lifestyle
A chocolatier’s sweet success
Back in the early 1980s, Frank Crail had a dream that many of us harbor in some small corner of our souls. A successful – if harried – tech entrepreneur in sunbaked Southern California, Crail yearned for a small town in the cool mountains where he and his wife could raise a big family and [...]
Inventor Has 350 Ideas On Market
Every inventor has a thousand ideas. But it’s the rare one who has 350 of his ideas actually on the market. Meet Zlatko Zadro, president of Zadro Products in Huntington Beach. After careers selling large computers and refurbishing real estate, Zadro decided in 1983 to try marketing one of his inventions. The result is an [...]
Can Friends Be Strong Business Partners?
Question: I have been considering taking two friends as partners in my planned company. I need their expertise as well as their ideas, contacts and other contributing efforts. Should I take them on as employees? Or is it better to partner? Answer: Here are a few things to ask yourself: First, do you really need [...]
Five Reasons For Small Business Owners To Blog
Why do small business owners write on blogs? A faster and better way to create newsletter articles. A strategy for getting published. A low-cost way for a small business owner to market online. A method to communicate and connect — especially important for business owners. Satisfaction of some inner need to share. Why do you [...]
Have Fun With Your Business
Business is supposed to be fun. Losing sight of that only tends to negatively impact your business and cause you to forget why you started your business in the first place. As an entrepreneur there is probably no end to your overtime, so be sure you have fun for yourself, both at work and outside [...]
An entrepreneur’s nonprofit helps sick kids
Allison Stuart felt scared during the day she spent at the hospital in New Orleans awaiting surgery for recurring ear infections. Most 7-year-olds would. She had some things to comfort her, though – not reassuring words from her doctor or the prospect of a new treatment, but far simpler gifts: a colorful quilt and a [...]
How to avoid Internet stock scams
Things Scam Companies Don’t Want You To Think About My editor, Owen Thomas, recently passed along to me an email that had found its way to his inbox about a stock called Xethanol (XNL), suggesting that I might be interested in looking into it. The email claimed that Xethanol was attempting to defraud investors. I [...]
