http://bennycarreon.com Do you want to learn how to start your own business? Do have what it takes? Do you want to learn how to start? I'll share my success and failures with you. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:13:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought about starting this blog entry with some witty banter, but since I ain't that witty, that would only prove a waste of braincycles on my part. It's been almost 4 months since my last blog post - questions arose such as "Did your business start getting too consuming", "Was ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/who-loves-you-baby I haven't posted on my blog for a while now, and I've gotten some people asking what's going on with the site. Well, plain and simple - I've gotten swamped.  What I've thought long and hard about and what I'm going to be doing is what a number of you have ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/next-step Sam was a decent enough guy, born into a middle class family. Very intelligent, he was shy and introverted and tended to avoid much social interaction. A classic "geek" if there ever was a prototype. Growing up through the middle grades and high school, he was typically the butt ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/are-you-successful 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 ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/cant-find-the-perfect-business-to-start-try-this 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 ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/disaster-planning-live-your-life-in-15-second-soundbites 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. After doing so much work and dragging our feet ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/ready-fire-aim If you have read any self-development books, undoubtedly you know the importance of goal-setting. You need to set short-term, intermediate and long-term goals in order to measure and attain success. Without goals you will fail and never achieve what you really want in life. Hogwash. Okay, I know I'm slaughtering ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/goals-pfffft 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 ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/your-business-a-child-or-a-pet 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 ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/value-learn-it-or-lose "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" Does that sound familiar to you? I think one of the biggest obstacles to starting a business is lack of funding. Many small ... http://bennycarreon.com/archives/the-well-funded-startup-in-other-words-a-curse