One of the facts that most entrepreneurs realize is we’re about solving people’s problems. A significant point in entrepreneurship is social entrepreneurship: Helping those with simple solutions that make a BIG impact on their lives.
As I have mentioned before in another blog post regarding Startup Entrepreneur for the Poor: Liter of Light sometimes the simple solutions affect more people that complex or complicated ones.
Here is another example showing that “certificates” or “degrees” from “approved” colleges and universities may be overkill for solving problems as the principles are the same. Failing to understand how a cell phone works does not stop me from using it much like these people solving their own problems
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For those that don’t know my story, here’s an interview I did with an author, Morgen Bailey, in the United Kingdom about how I got started writing my book and my blog. As you’ll see, we all take different paths to get where we are today and sometimes the myths and gossip of what happens creates a fog around the truth of what really takes place.
So, read what transpired for me to take up writing a book.
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The ethics of being a startup entrepreneur is about doing good for both you and your customer. Sort of like a business doctor: Doing no harm to your customers with your products and services. One of the things about businesses is when you’re doing the right thing you and your customer BOTH make things better. Well, here’s a story about someone that is using organic farming which actually makes doing a garden, using the right techniques, that you’ll actually be healthier because of the techniques used by Paul Gautschi.
If you watch Paul’s gardening techniques, you’ll be amazed at how simple things make a BIG difference. Watch and learn.
So, here’s the answer to our food situation.
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Categories: health, ideas, Motivation, Planning, Process, Success, Tips Tags: Garden, Organic, Organic farming, Organic horticulture, Urban Homesteading
I now have two quotes that major celebrities like what I say. Schweet!!
The first one was Chris Brogan who liked my “craft of your business” versus “business of your craft” comment.
Now I have Carrie Wilkerson who likes a quote from my book, here’s our exchange:
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How do you see this comment?
OPPORTUNITY
IS
NOWHERE
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Thomas Edison in pursuing the invention of the light bulb failed over 10,000 times trying to find the right combination. While most of us see the persistence of his goal, there are two other stories, back stories, that most are not aware of.
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As an startup entrepreneur using a Mac there is one thing that puzzles me: How does one figure that the rich do not pay their fair share of society?
It really boils down to this: What do the rich really pay for?
Here’s the first part of the equation: According to Who Pays Income Taxes and how much? the top 10% of AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) taxpayers pay a WHOPPING 69.94% of our Federal governments bills! And that is for incomes OVER $113,799.00 based on IRS statistics, not the $250,000.00 number that is bantered around so much.
But what DO the rich do for us?
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