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Authenticity: Do You Dare To Show Me The Real You?

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During the first few weeks of 2012, I’ve been doing a lot of phone calls with entrepreneurs and the same recurring themes come up over and over. These people are at the early stages of starting their own small business or self-employment. And they are fearful and uncertain.  That uncertainty is usually around what to offer the world and how best to do that.   “Will people want me and what I have to offer?” And so I ask them about themselves and discover what their life’s work has been about to date and attempt to excavate their natural gifts and talents which [...]

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Entrepreneurs: We’d Love To Hear Your Story

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Hello to you if you are an Entrepreneur, a Solopreneur, Self-Employed, a start-up or you run your own Small Business. Would you like to share your story? I am starting a new SuperBlog soon, called Entrepreneur Soul, which will share the good news about self-employment and I want to tell the stories of all of us on it.   People love stories and they are waiting to read yours. They want to know why you started, how’s it going and what do you have planned for the future. They want you to inspire them to start their own small business and they want [...]

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Entrepreneur: How Do I Know I Am One?

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A comment from a virtual visitor earlier in the week got me thinking. Here’s his comment “Isn’t Entrepreneur a word that is used to describe other people?  As in you couldn’t really say “I am an Entrepreneur”, even if other people labelled you as such?”  Thanks to Michael for that. Actually I can, so I disagree with Michael. I don’t hold the word Entrepreneur in quite such reverence. Guru perhaps. Genius definitely. But Entrepreneur no. How do I know I am one?   Because I started and ran my own firm of accountants and sold it after 20 years and the guy [...]

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Entrepreneurs Must Embrace Lady Luck: Luke Johnson

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Luke Johnson keeps providing thoughtful material which I share here in case you didn’t read him in the Financial Times: One of the reasons business is so fascinating is that success is unpredictable. So many apparent negatives can be turned into positives. There are winners who have overcome dyslexia, a stammer, a lack of academic qualifications, or being fired. A common complaint from would-be entrepreneurs is the lack of finance to start a business. But an inability to raise funding can eventually become a bonus. Founders who keep their shares do not suffer early equity dilution. If the business works, they [...]

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Hands Off My Favourite Word: Entrepreneur

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One of my very favourite words in the world, perhaps my No 1 all-time favourite, is ENTREPRENEUR. I love it so much I adopted it at AdoptAWord.com which helps children with communication difficulties. Their website allows you to buy merchandise with your word on it so I can see on my keyring every day that I am an ENTREPRENEUR, lest I forget, which is very, very unlikely but just in case. But, here’s the bad news. Increasingly people are bastardising my favourite word. The first culprit was Mumpreneur (yuk!), which has now been officially recognised and added to the dictionary. God. Help. [...]

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“Most Entrepreneurs Are Driven By Self-Doubt”: Sir Tom Hunter

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Dragon Peter Jones made an excellent attempt last night, where many have gone before, to discover whether the personality traits of one entrepreneur have anything in common with another. Mr Jones was comparing and contrasting Michelle Mone of MJM International, the makers of Ultimo bras, with Richard Reed one of the three founders of Innocent Drinks.   I like Peter Jones, he’s easy on the eye and I much prefer the programmes where we get to see him being chauffeur driven and flying in private jets to the tedious Dragons’ Den itself which, to my mind, does not showcase entrepreneurs very [...]

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Alternatives: Creating a Business to Love

The wonderful, brilliant, fabulous Alternatives have asked me to run a business workshop for them on 6th November called Creating a Business to Love after my e-book of the same name.   Here’s what the blurb says about the day in their Autumn 2010 Programme: “As the nine-to-five treadmill becomes increasingly unappealing for many, the task is to create a business that you love and that serves the life you want. Do you want to be successfully self-employed, exchanging time for money and paying your bills every month with ease and grace?   Would you like to rest easy in pricing yourself appropriately and asking for [...]

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