Moonlighting Your Way to Retirepreneurship

Many Boomers are actively employed, but they’re thinking about launching a business to take into retirement – either to stay engaged in work they enjoy OR to build another income stream for retirement. Working a job while launching a business requires patience, persistence, and a bit of finesse. With the growth of online business, it’s [...]

How Scalable Is Your Business Idea?

In the tech world, scalability is a desirable attribute. It’s the ability to “scale up” volume or workload without major adjustments to the initial solution design.  For example, if you build a network for 100 users today, it’s still going to get the job done if you’re at 500 users down the road. Think about [...]

The Matterhorn Project

Do or do not; there is no try.” – Yoda from “The Empire Strikes Back” (Star Wars trilogy) I’m not a big fan of the word try. It carries a lot of baggage, including doubt, hedging, and fear of failure. Do is another story — it’s filled with promise, belief, and a firm commitment to [...]

2010 – Got Maps?

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”             Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland It’s a shiny new year – in fact, a shiny new decade and many of us are emerging with a list of goals, both personal and professional. At the end of 2009, I spent a [...]

5 Things: #5 Map Out Your Plan

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah planned his ark!

The most successful business pursuits begin with a plan. I’m assuming you’ve done some work on the other four things we’ve discussed. Now it’s time to bring it all together with a plan.