It’s always important for everyone, especially entrepreneurs, to remember that a dollar saved is equal to a dollar earned.…
4 Savvy Solutions That Made Their Own Niches in the Tech Sector
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship / September 11, 2020
If the tech sector were a department store, you’d find yourself elbow-to-elbow with other shoppers. After all, it’s notoriously crowded.…
Why the Gig Economy Is a Great Place for Young People to Get Their Start
by / ⠀Startup Advice / July 16, 2020
Enter the gig economy. Now, anyone with the motivation and skills to work can pursue a variety of service and sales roles. …
A Technologist’s Quest to Change the World: Casey Pugh Interview
by / ⠀Blog• Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / May 4, 2015
“I want to work on things that have the potential to change the world.” We all have the ability to change the world in one way or another. For those in technology, it’s often more feasible than in other fields, but that doesn’t mean it comes easily. Many of the world’s best technologists remain behind the scenes while CEOs and their entrepreneurial counterparts receive the spotlight. There are…
Making it Happen: Interview with Jermaine Dupri
by / ⠀Blog• Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / April 21, 2015
Jermaine Dupri is an entrepreneur, rapper, songwriter, and Grammy-award-winning producer. Among his impressive list of credentials is founder of Global 14 and So So Def Recordings. So So Def Recordings has released more than 25 albums over the past few decades, many of those reaching gold (500,000 sold), platinum (1M sold), and double-platinum (2M sold) status. From discovering, developing, and producing artists and groups including Kriss Kross,…
Entrepreneurship in Real-time: Interview with Travis Huff
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship• Startup Advice / December 22, 2014Hiscox Courageous Entrepreneur Interview Series This is part two of the ten part series. Follow the Hiscox Courageous Entrepreneur interview series on Under30CEO.com. Interview Series Sponsored by Hiscox Small Business Insurance. Hiscox specializes in protecting IT/technology, marketing, consulting, health and beauty, photography and many other professional services businesses, tailoring coverage to the specific risks in your industry. How does a former employee at Comcast, Morgan Stanley and Disney end up starting a…
Ideas are rarely the Eureka moments we wish they were and they certainly don’t exist in a vacuum. They are the result of a collection of knowledge, insights, observations, experience and passion. For some of us coming up with ideas is easy, for others not at all. Then there are those of us who fall in the middle. We’ve got a flood of ideas (how many are…
In 2011, I went from working at a restaurant making $2.17/hour (plus tips…) to launching one…then two…then THREE successful, profitable businesses with literally no startup capital. How did I do it? Did I come up with the next Google or get a loan from a rich uncle? Hell no. I simply learned how to take skills I already had and create products and services that people would pay…
Why “Cool” Social Media Turns into Mind Numbing TV (and Why It’s Great for Entrepreneurs)
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship / May 1, 2014Do you remember Facebook when they first launched? You had to have a .edu address to join. So only cool hip college (or at least alumni) were allowed to join. I used it a lot because I could see what people I was interested in were doing. As with anything social, people compete… compete to get more likes, compete to get more fans, compete to get more friends,…
Breaking Through: 5 Tips for Reframing Challenges into Opportunities
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship / April 24, 2014Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you to sit down and visualize. Or meditate. Or do yoga every day for a month. (Although I have tried those things.) I’ve been an entrepreneur for my entire (six year) career. After a few short-lived internships in college, I realized I’d do whatever it took to be my own boss until the end of my days. With that said, I’ve…