Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is …

  • Customer Intelligence is often, the most overlooked, undervalued gold mine of any business and not just marketing and product. I’ve seen it over and over. Customers, EXISTING ones, are the starting point, the anchor …. and the first domino for everything you do. For 20 years, I have obsessed over understanding my customers (customer community).…

  • Be so good … they can’t criticize you.Be so good … they can’t judge you.Be so good … they can’t blame or shame you. Be so good …. they won’t leave you.Do so much … they won’t leave you. Work so hard … to keep proving it.Work so hard … no one could accuse you…

  • A couple of weeks ago I was asked to share my entrepreneurial journey to a startup accelerator in Oklahoma City. These are always good times for me because it pushes me to really reflect, refine my thoughts and feelings and an outlet to share it. So I wanted to offer only some of what I…

  • I’m a real sucker for inspirational speeches from movies. And I was talking with an entrepreneur this week who is experiencing the downs of business. And I shared this clip. Here’s some things that stuck out to me with the inevitable lows in business and this clip. We ALL go through it if we’ve done…

  • I remember years ago talking with a group of entrepreneurs and hearing them use the phrase “lifestyle business” as a negative. I guess at some point there was a time when I felt a tiny notion of that sentiment. But lately, especially as I get 15 years into the journey of entrepreneurship, my notion is…