Ask The Entrepreneurs

Disregarding the decidedly skeptical tone in which this question was posed, I thought it would be a great thing to ask a few entrepreneurs and independent workers that I know.
Here’s a sampling of what they told me.

A few things stood out to me:

Everyone works, a LOT.
But everyone’s also highly engaged in what they’re doing.
Work flexes [...]

A while back, I met Steven Fan, CEO and co-founder of the startup HelloMovies (http://www.hellomovies.com), site that helps you to figure out what to watch, and where to find it.
During our conversation, I was particularly struck by Steven’s personal likeability, openness, and willingness to invite people - even relative strangers like me - into his [...]

Job Interviews CAN Go Badly
On Friday, I met up with a friend who was recently laid off.
In the nine or ten days that she’d been jobless, she’d applied for a handful of positions and had one interview. Not a bad hit rate, I thought.
Her onsite, however, ended with the interviewer telling her he didn’t think [...]

A friend of mine is contemplating grad school in order to adorn her wall, and her resume, with another glowing degree.
Back when I was working my Google dronejob, feeling overqualified, and hating every moment of my forty hours, I thought about grad school too. I figured that an MBA would be my easiest ticket out [...]

A recent post by Nick Stamoulis of Marketing Pilgrim has me obsessed with questions about the generation gap.
Normally, I prefer to accord agency to the individual, rather than to cliched group identities like “Baby Boomers,” “Generation X,” or “Generation Y.”
But… as an apparent member of the Gen Y tier, I couldn’t help but COMPLETELY identify [...]

WHAT: Know your geographic advantage.
Sandbox is an offline social and professional network of “extraordinary achievers under 30.” Sandbox is also a for-profit company currently in the process of filing for incorporation under Swiss law.
How does a company make money from being a “network of extraordinary achievers?”
Here’s Sandbox they stacked up in terms of geographic [...]

WHAT: Be a really good networker.

Unless you plan to start a business sending mail bombs to people, you’ll need lots of company – partners, advisers, colleagues, and customers.
Antoine grew Sandbox from a spark he saw in one of his earliest network-building experiences:
“The first time I realized the power of networks was when I was 16. [...]

Silicon Valley-ites are not the only people in the world who know cutting-edge media entrepreneurship. Why, then, do we have such center-of-the-universe attitude about the Valley that’s rivaled only by NYC and its frighteningly die-hard residents (friends in New York, I love you)?
What do you do if you want to be an entrepreneur on [...]