Catching Up On Readings: New Year’s Resolution
I was reflecting back on 2009, and thinking what would be a good synthesis of the work I have been doing, and how I might succinctly summarize a New Year’s resolution for myself. Here is what I have come up with:
Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail. Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. To find out about this and the rest of the week’s posts, click on the four articles.
My New Year’s Resolution, and a look back at 2009:
Final Thoughts of 2009
Goodbye Gruesome 2009
Campaign In Poetry, Govern In Prose
Deal Radar 2009 Wirkle, Clearpath
Entrepreneur Journeys Interviews
Helping You Book Vacation Rentals: FlipKey CEO T. J. Mahoney
How A Warren Buffet Protégé Built Overstock.com: CEO Patrick Byrne
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet Founders Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison
Entrepreneur Journeys
Here’s a roundup of the best book reviews from 2009.
Roundtables
A new series of roundtables will begin in 2010 to discuss, among other topics, what to do if VCs have turned you down. Roundtables are free and open to all. The first of this year is on January 7, 2010 at 8 a.m. Pacific time; you can register here.
Guest Authors
Richard Laermer shows readers how to fame to accomplish their goals for the New Year.
This segment is a part in the series : Catching Up On Readings
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