Monthly Archives: July 2013

Exercises to keep you motivated

Entrepreneurs will have to be leaders during their whole career. There is not a better way to make people around you (partners, employees, investors, clients, among others) do whatever you need them to do that being a good leader. However, being a leader or a great leader, is not only …

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Winning Space in Social Media

When we talk about the Internet as a company, we have to learn there are 3 different types of spaces: own, paid for and won. Every one of these spaces is very important and as a company, we have to learn how to take as much advantage as possible. Before …

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Value Proposition: the success foundations

There are many kinds of entrepreneurship projects. Some are born when we create something new and unique, others are just incremental improvements of something that exists in the market and there are even others that will offer an existing product or service. Regardless of the entrepreneurship you are developing you …

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Analyzing and redefining the Life Plan

As with most engineers, I’m a very structured person. I like to have control of my life, having clear goals and working for them. Also, many years ago I created my Life Plan, where I set my main goals for the future. I love my life plan and I recommend …

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Should the CEO of a business be one of its founding partners?

Entrepreneurships are newly born businesses that require steering of the best people, or in other word from people that have the better-suited traits in order to lead it to success. Normally when an entrepreneur decides to start a new business he does it thinking that he is this person that …

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Industry Association: joining forces for the same interests

When you create a new company a new person is born, a juridical person, which is going to develop in a certain market. In the same way as any human being this new company is going to have different needs and interests. However lets remember that as in the real …

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Successful Entrepreneur Business Models: Threadless

The second successful case I am going to write about in this blog is a business that is very innovative – at least when they launched their business- which is called Threadless. This company was created in the year 2000, when two developers decided to replicate their experience in a …

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Entrepreneur: Do not despair in a crisis

Sooner or latter everyone will make mistakes and have failures. This is just a natural part of life and everyone will fail, including entrepreneurs. Since this is a part of life, out job is to understand and accept this, making the best of it and learning valuable life lessons. This …

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Successful Entrepreneur Business Models: Open English

Even though in this blog we have written about many entrepreneur subjects, which include among others, methodologies, tools and advices, we have not written about successful entrepreneurial stories. These successful cases are interesting but not because they must be our models, because each entrepreneurial project is different, but because they …

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What does an entrepreneur has to face? (part 3)

In this series of articles, I am writing about the difficulties a businessman faces in the entrepreneurship path. Before you continue reading this post I invite you to read the firs two posts where I mention the difficulty to acquire financial resources and the new roles an entrepreneur must assume. …

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