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Archive for March 2007

March 28th, 2007

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs Lands in Australia!

In its 16th edition, the Carnival of Entrepreneurs makes its way to Australia to visit with Leah Maclean.
Go check out Carnival of Entrepreneurs - 16th edition.
It’s always great to see what people do with the Carnival, and Leah’s done a beautiful formatting and style job. She pulls quotes from each of the articles to really […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 1 comment

March 26th, 2007

Get Into the Startup Ring With Steve Poland

Steve Poland (contributing writer to TechCrunch) has just launched a new site called Ringside Startup.

The idea is to launch a web startup with your help. First, he’s raising $20,000 from contributions. If you contribute you’ll be given the opportunity to vote on how to move forward with the company. The very first decision people will […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 0 comments

March 23rd, 2007

What We Can Learn From Entrepreneurs in Africa

I’m far from an expert on Africa and the difficulties faced within the continent. But it seems to me, if there’s any place on earth that needs powerful, motivated and passionate entrepreneurs, it’s Africa.
Benin Mwangi is opening the door on African entrepreneurship and his recent post 7 Lessons from Africa’s Successful Entrepreneurs is worth delving […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 5 comments

March 22nd, 2007

Learn How To Get Guy Kawasaki’s Attention

Wendy Piersall has a great post titled 8 Ways to Get Venture Capital Attention from Guy Kawasaki.
These are things she learned after attending Elite Retreat in San Francisco, California, where a bunch of top-notch bloggers and business folk get into a room with 20 or so people and spend 2 days breaking their knee […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 5 comments

March 22nd, 2007

Survival Isn’t Good Enough For Entrepreneurs

Surviving isn’t a reason to exist.
It’s not good enough to want to survive, your goal should be to excel. This is something I’ve dealt with personally - a company that survived but could never get beyond that.
Most of the time, surviving is better than dying, and if your business survived through the dot com […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 1 comment

March 21st, 2007

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs #15 Unleashed

Welcome to the 15th edition of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs. This is a mammoth edition with 35 submissions listed below.
As always there’s a little something for everyone - the home-business entrepreneur, people just starting, and people interested in online marketing.
Please help promote the Carnival of Entrepreneurs by linking back to this post. And, it’s important […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 11 comments

March 19th, 2007

How Important is Luck in Entrepreneurship?

It’d be hard to argue against the existence of luck. Luck is simply too prevalent in our understanding of how things work. We accept the existence of it and some degree of influence that luck has over everything in our lives.
But luck irks me.
It’s too often used as an excuse when things go wrong or […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 12 comments

March 16th, 2007

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs Visits The Mogul To Be

Earlier this week, fellow entrepreneur Robert McIntosh over at A Mogul To Be took care of hosting the Carnival of Entrepreneurs for its 14th edition.
The 14th Carnival of Entrepreneurs is chock full of great material.
Here are some highlights that jumped out at me:

Should You Quit School Because You’re Brilliant? from Digerati Life.
Increase Your Business Sales […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 3 comments

March 15th, 2007

The 5 Most Common Mistakes Made By Startups

Entrepreneurs are no strangers to mistakes. Mistakes will happen - with considerable frequency - and the value in making those mistakes is learning from them and avoiding them in the future. You can also study the mistakes of others that came before. Plenty of successful entrepreneurs are quite open about mistakes they’ve made, why they […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 37 comments

March 15th, 2007

Winner of the Entrepreneurial Pay It Forward Contest Announced

We had one final entry before the deadline on Monday from Service Untitled titled Seth Godin on Customer Service. That brings the total to 6. The other 5 can be found here.
With such a few number of entries each person had great odds for winning.
I used a random number generator to pick the winner…drumroll please…
Jeff […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 1 comment

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