As Published in Forbes Previously Published in Forbes By Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes Contributor If you’re planning to brave the crowds in order to get the best deals, don’t forget that career development items are gifts that keep on giving long after the holidays are over. From books to services, there [...]
Previously Published in Inc. By Ed McLaughlin Bill Gates, born in Seattle, the founder of Microsoft, is an American entrepreneur. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, born in Moscow under Communist rule, is an American entrepreneur. Elon Musk, born in South Africa, the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is an American entrepreneur. [...]
Previously Published in StrategyDriven By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker When I launched my second business, a publishing company called Sigma Communications, I was filled with passion but knew next to nothing about publishing a magazine. Without proven competence, I desperately needed guidance. Sure enough, I came to [...]
Previously Published in StrategyDriven By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker When we launched my publishing business, Sigma Communications, I was so passionate about the magazine, and so confident that it would be a runaway success, that I decided to self-fund. After all, I had successfully bootstrapped my first business, USI. Why couldn’t [...]
Previously Published in StrategyDriven By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate, the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Capital [...]
By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker The ideal formula for business success is when your passion and distinctive competence align. Only nine months after opening my first business, USI – a business based on my distinctive competence – I launched a second business called Sigma Communications Inc., or Sigma for short. [...]
Previously Published on eCampusNews By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker The startup ambitions of MBA students and college undergrads have spawned discussion about whether aspiring young entrepreneurs should launch new business ventures while still in school. Students, graduates, professors, and investors have varying opinions on whether startup fever should be [...]
Previously Published in Home Business By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker News from a recent 2015 Kauffman Report suggests that the best time for you to start your own business – at any age – could be right now. The report said we showed the greatest surge in U.S. entrepreneurial activity that we’ve had in [...]
Previously published in The CEO Magazine By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Most entrepreneurial companies thrive on innovation, creativity, and speed as key ingredients for driving success. Entrepreneurs are willing to take risks to increase the probability of breakthrough achievement at the cost of possible failure. In many respects, these attributes [...]
Previously published in YoungUpstarts By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker You have a great idea for a new business and can’t wait to start up. Should you rush to market with a minimal viable product (MVP) and risk the cycle of failing, pivoting, and then starting again? Or should you do [...]
