From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Why Your Great Big Brain Won’t Run A Business

April 30, 2009

“I wish people would just hire me for my ideas.”
“I wish some company would buy my idea so I don’t have to build it.”
“I’m a smart person; why isn’t anyone hiring me?”
Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear one of those things – and for too many years I was hearing [...]

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Little League Lessons for Entrepreneurs

April 20, 2009

Since I’m a “woman of a certain age,” I didn’t have the opportunity to play a lot of team sports growing up.  My most vivid memories of sports for women were Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs during “The Battle of the Sexes” and G.L.O.W – the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Oh, Spanish Red! And [...]

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How I Solved My Facebook Pollution Problem (Turns Out It Wasn’t Facebook That Was Polluted…)

April 7, 2009

Maybe my view is totally off but here’s how I see the two environments of Twitter and Facebook…
I like Twitter for the large numbers of diverse connections and for the randomness of the conversation.  It’s like hanging out in line at Starbucks.  Sometimes you bump into a friend… sometimes you make a new one… sometimes [...]

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