“I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew). Their names are What and Where and When and How and Why and Who.”

Rudyard Kipling, in Just-So stories: The Elephant’s Child (1902)

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The above quote is as good as any start who wants to make a change, with awarness, whatever change may be. Collect the answers, and get yourself a one page summary, and head on to get your first customer. Then you can make yourself a Bigger Plan.

Setting out a route to become an “entrepreneur”, is less static “to be” and a huge amount more of “to do”. Planning is not doing, it is planning. Doing is not planning. Doing is doing. (more…)

I like to visit Change This to see what new business ideas and ebooks they are producing that I should read up on. Below are some recommended reading for every entrepreneur and small business owner. The thoughts of these change agents has certainly made an impact on how I have operated my own business. (more…)

Paul Graham of the successful venture firm, Y Combinator, wrote a great essay that highlights 16 excuses people have to not start a startup. Many of them are the common excuses that you will hear from typical naysayers such as being too young, lack of family support, and (more…)

It’s being talked about all over the net , commented heavily on Scoble’s blog, upset marketing guru, Seth Godin, and has also received national press on BBC news. Kathy Sierra, author of the popular blog, Passionate Users, has been getting death threats and has decided to stop blogging all together. It’s gotten to the point where she had to cancel a trip to the Etech conference and she has literally locked herself in her own home and has sought out psychiatric treatment because of the amount of verbal abuse that she has gotten. If you read her blog entry, you’ll find just how violent and twisted the comments are of Kathy. There are also some very disturbing pictures as well. Police are also investigating (more…)