How to Create a Successful Side Hustle from Nothing

The ability to take calculated risks is what separates successful entrepreneurs from the not-so-successful. But risk taking is not for everyone. Risk should not deter an aspiring entrepreneur. How do you create a successful business without risking it all? The first step in the process is side-hustling. A side hustle lets you keep your...

Josh Koppel Talks About Bringing Old Media to Life With Ingage

Josh Koppel Talks About Bringing Old Media to Life With Ingage

For large multinational companies and enterprises, issues in creating high-quality content and interactive media are rare. But for the small business entrepreneur, it’s a different story. I spoke recently with Josh Koppel, the founder of Scrollmotion, about this very disconnect between small and large business capabilities and how his company’s iPad app is trying to...

How an Entrepreneurial Doctor's Product is Helping Babies Take Medicine

How an Entrepreneurial Doctor’s Product is Helping Babies Take Medicine

There’s nothing that says you need to come from a certain field or background in order to become an entrepreneur, and my latest podcast guest is proof of that. Dr. Agnes Scoville, the creator of the Pacidose, spoke with me recently about how her 15 years of experience as an ER doctor and recent...

Bedros Keuilian Used the Immigrant Edge to Build His Successful Franchise Business

Every entrepreneur has a story about where they got their hustle from. Bedros Keuilian’s story is not the typical journey you’d expect from the owner of an Inc. 5000 franchise, and that’s exactly why I want to share it with you today. Defining the Immigrant Edge Bedros Keuilian’s family immigrated here back in 1980 in order...

How Irma Cedeno is Finding Success by Helping Entrepreneurs Tap Into the Spanish Market

How Irma Cedeno is Finding Success by Helping Entrepreneurs Tap Into the Spanish Market

As an entrepreneur, you’re busy thinking about where that next client will come from and what your next big move will be. So, when an opportunity arises that seems as like it may only be of benefit to you, it’s sometimes difficult to seize upon it. After all, your time is precious and it’s...

McAfee Insights on Small Business Cyberattacks: How, Why, and What You Can Do

McAfee Insights on Small Business Cyberattacks: How, Why, and What You Can Do

Think hackers are just aiming for the big guys? Think again. Recent statistics indicate that 43 percent of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Moreover, 60 percent of them will go out of business within six months of the attack. To understand why this is, I have a bonus interview to add to my Dell...

Seasoned Entrepreneur Amy Vetter Shares Tips on Achieving a Work Life Balance

Seasoned Entrepreneur Amy Vetter Shares Tips on Achieving a Work Life Balance

One of my favorite things about talking to seasoned entrepreneurs like Amy Vetter is that you never really know what’s going to come out of your discussions. Take Vetter, for example. She’s a CPA who knows her stuff. In fact, she acquired the accounting bug from her grandfather who was a CPA. But it turns...

Michael Dell's Advice for Small Business

Embrace Risk: Michael Dell’s Advice for Small Business Owners

Innovation, risk, and growth – three principles of business that go hand in hand. To show you how it works, let’s take a look at a shining example: Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. In the final episode of my Dell EMC World series, I get Michael’s advice for small business...

female entrepreneurs

Female Entrepreneurs: Your Time is NOW

The gender gap in startups is well documented, particularly in the area of finance where research shows that female entrepreneurs raise smaller amounts of capital to get their businesses off the ground. Fortunately, the startup environment is starting to change, with more focus on helping women start businesses and scale up quickly. For example, at...