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 [...]

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 [...]

In college, we learned about social entrepreneurs, the people like crazy Bill Drayton of Ashoka, who are transforming the nonprofit landscape by infusing their projects with a decidedly entrepreneurial flair. Most were nonprofits, very few were primarily businesses that, secondarily, happened to be in the business of ‘helping people.’
Sutanto Widjaja knew he wanted to stay [...]

Entrepreneurship is a tough lonely road with a big old pot of gold at the end of it.

Is that so? What if I don’t want to tough it out, or be lonely, and what if I want rewards all the time? Yes, I’m spoiled and demanding, but maybe it is possible to have your cake [...]

Emily C. Morgan is a calm lady, not at all the  kind of loud-talking, forceful person who you might assume would go the intrepid route of writing off her company and boss and starting her own business.

Emily’s virtual assistant business, Delegate Solutions, started from her home when she was pregnant AND working full time as [...]

When a friend first recommend that I talk to Chad Hartvigson for this blog, I was skeptical.
A guy who runs a business selling screenprinted t-shirts for high school sports? Not sexy enough. For someone like me who mingles in the self-absorbed, “[NOUN] 2.0″ buzz of Silicon Valley all day, every day, the idea of debuting [...]