Every now and then I am pulled aside and asked for advice about starting a business. If they find out that I operate my own business and that I help others start their own, I rarely find a person out there that doesn’t have some interest in starting their own business. The reasons [...]

Okay, first - no I haven’t abandoned this website. One of the great pleasures of owning your own business is the spontaneous trip. In this case, my family and I went to Florida to visit some friends and family - FYI … August in Florida - if you didn’t know it’s not the [...]

Earlier this month, one of my partners and I started a new business venture. We started planning for it about ten months ago. We spent countless hours planning, developing strategy, performing market analysis. You name it we did it.

One of the best analogies I’ve once heard about a business was that your business SHOULD be like a child. When you start out, it is a helpless creature. It can’t live without you. It NEEDS you to grow. You need to nurture and care for your business when it’s young. However, as time goes [...]

Well here you are, after several years of hard work and saving, you’ve finally been able to afford that house you’ve dreamed about for years. You saved $35,000 for the down payment and now, the big day has come. The papers are signed and the real estate agent has put the “SOLD” sign [...]

“I’ve got a GREAT business idea, but I just need some money. If I only had $[fill in number here], I’d be on my way”

I have had the good fortune to work with some very smart people. Harvard MBA’s, MIT Phd’s, owners of successful companies, you name it. Not too long ago I met with an individual that I would categorize as a member of that group. He is an entrepreneur that has been on his [...]

One trait that ANY person can possess is the ability to relate to and interact with others in a positive and beneficial manner. Mastery of this trait will greatly help in any endeavor that you choose. The counter to that is if you have difficulty relating to others or are more self-focused, your success [...]

This past weekend, my family and I went to downtown Boulder on beautiful Pearl Street. It was the holiday weekend, people from all over the world were here because there was the Bolder Boulder, a road race that over 50,000 runners participate in.

Think about walking 100 feet across a sidewalk. No big deal right? You do it every day without thinking about it. Now think about taking that same 100 foot walk but that sidewalk is 10,000 feet in the air. No ground surrounding the sidewalk, nothing holding you up but this 100 [...]