Does your small biz assign job titles to people? Do you get any benefit from it? Rand at SEOmoz asked that question: I made the executive decision today that having titles like CEO, CTO, Project Manager, etc. really doesn’t serve us well. It inaccurately describe the jobs that we do and creates executive level distinctions…
“Success is largely a matter of stumbling forward. We fail forward to success. It’s a case of falling forward and getting up whenever you fall down and beginning again. Failure is an inevitable and necessary and a useful part of being successful. Actually we learn more from failing than from succeeding, because failure impresses us…
“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of failure…
BusinessWeek Online is talking about borrowing from family for your business. Despite their cautionary title (“Think Twice”), they offer a smart suggestion to handle the borrowing in a structured way. For some additional suggestions, click through our previous post on Raising Money From Family and Friends. small biz rural entrepreneurship borrowing family business financing
Many of us, when we screw up, fail, or are rejected, do two things without thinking: first we cover it up; second, we go right from the “failure” to “I’m worthless!” We take it personally and the learning we take away is to never, ever to get caught in that kind of situation again. The…
Raganwald blog shares lessons learned in What I’ve Learned from Failure. Some of the areas he covers are Why does failure matter? and The four most important causes of failure. He also has a section on Finishing. His lessons from software development have plenty of relevance for all small biz people. small biz rural entrepreneurship…
This is an exceprt of a post by Marco Terry, Invoice Factoring Blog. He writes mostly about invoice factoring, but these points apply to any kind of business loans or financing. Here are the three big “Don’t Do’s” of business financing. 1. Don’t be clueless about your own businessThe biggest deal killer I see in…
You probably noticed our new little map, below our lovely photos in the sidebar. It automatically records visitors, and you can see that if you are from outside of Oklahoma, you are not alone in reading Small Biz Survival. When I started, I really thought I was writing just for friends I already knew; small…
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