Our friend Liz Strauss was kind enough to introduce us to Carol Roth. She has a straightforward style that I think you’ll appreciate. By Carol Roth If you want to become an NFL football player, first you need to be an outstanding college player, usually from a major school.  If you want to become a…

At the Oklahoma Entrepreneurship Conference, a new feature was the Entrepreneur 360 panel. A group of startup experts offered insight and feedback to two actual start up founders. I won’t get into the details of their businesses, but I will share a few thoughts that apply to any startup. Being an entrepreneur is like climbing…

This is a picture of some of the wine racks in the stock room of our liquor store. You can actually buy specially designed metal shelving and wine racks for liquor store stock rooms. Instead, my mother scrounged up some book cases. Then she used cardboard wine boxes and their dividers to make perfectly functional…

Keys to Your Business Managing You Desperately say “yes” to every opportunity. Assume everybody is doing what you told them to do. Assume everybody understood what you said. Procrastinate. Set yourself up as the only person that knows how to do it. Constantly allow exceptions to the rules. That list comes from David Gaither of…