The YEC Retooling and Retraining The American Workforce
Editor’s Note: The YEC is an organization that partners with us and authors many blog posts here. The YEC seeks to retool and retrain the American workforce with mentorship from successful startups.
America’s Top Entrepreneurs and Citi Set Out to Mentor the Nation’s Aspiring Business Owners
This Labor Day weekend, the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) …
3 Reasons Why Your Personal Brand Strategy Requires Video
Remember when you first created a website? You needed to include a newsletter sign-up, then decided to add social elements like Facebook and Twitter…but later Pinterest and Google+ came along. It seems like there is always something NEW to explore.
So as the summer ends and you get back into work mode, it’s time to …
Start Your Brand Now; Iterate Later
I have seen countless startups fail because they take too long to launch. Likewise, I have met many professionals or would be bloggers that are paralyzed because they can’t decide on a URL name or their brand positioning.
Yes, it’s important to think hard about a blog name as it will potentially be your blog …
Olympian Action for Entrepreneurs
As I watched the Olympics this year, several analogies came to mind in regard to being an entrepreneur. To begin, it was the apparent determination to succeed that brought about invitations for those finalists to participate at the games.
Economies have been very slow over the past number of years. And many entrepreneurs have felt …
What I Wish I Knew as an Undergraduate
4 years ago I presented to a group of UCLA undergraduates about Entrepreneurship vs the Corporate World. My goal was to show undergraduates how they can break the template lifestyle and say “No” to the corporate job that they believe they need to get. As an undergraduate, I too was brain-washed into believing that the …
Top 3 Reasons Why Lifestyle Businesses Fail
My friend Andy made a comment about lifestyle design that resonated with me because it’s so true and so funny:
A few years ago, everyone read the 4 Hour Work Week and got a boner for building a lifestyle business. Very few people actually succeeded because it turned out to be much harder than they …
Dealing with Presentation Nerves On Stage and On Camera
With the popularity of TedTalks and Slideshare, GoogleHangouts and Skype, presentations are everywhere. If you haven’t been doing them already, sooner or later you’ll be asked to show off what you know either onstage or on camera.
This is a debilitating prospect for many of us. I know so many people who are great 1-on-1 …
Do CEOs Scavenge Social Media Accounts of Job Candidates?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently published …
Rules for Assuming the Sale
You may have previously been advised to “Assume the sale”. The implied characteristics of doing so are to speak with confidence and assume you will get the sale as you begin to meet with your clientele until otherwise notified.
However, along with the advice come inherent problems. The #1 error made by most businesspeople is …
Build Your Brand on a Shoestring Budget
How can you build your brand when you’re on such a thin shoestring budget that you don’t even have a smartphone, and having an Internet connection at home is difficult. Is it even possible to establish your brand online? You bet. Here are a few ways you can do some personal branding while you’re keeping …