Choosing Your Bootstrap Staff

When I founded CyberSynchs in June 2008, I was challenging myself to move in a new direction.  I was a recording artist with a valuable tech idea and I needed to assemble a team of professionals to craft that idea into a reality. One of my first tasks was to sit down [...]

Josh Shipp Used to Get Kicked out of Class for Talking: Now he Gets Paid to Talk

U30: You’ve appeared on TRL, FoxNews, Comedy Central and Cosmo Girl.  How’d you score the press? I started all this as a professional speaker- going around to high schools and colleges and speaking to large audiences. But that doesn’t translate to media. A speech is one person to five hundred.  Media is one person to [...]

The Leap – Three Simple Steps to Unlocking Your Greatest Potential

Do you ever find yourself asking, “Is this it?”  Sure, you’ve had some early successes in your career, made some money, received a promotion or two. Yet you can’t help but wonder, Is this what I am supposed to be doing with my life?  Is this the limit of my contribution? These questions [...]

Making Lifestyle Design into a Business

By Christine Eisner of LifestyleDesign.org For me, the joy of entrepreneurship comes from having the freedom to channel my time and energy into something that I am passionate about.  Yes, it suits my schedule (I get to work as late as I want!), but most importantly, I am pursuing my vision. Entrepreneurship is not necessarily the [...]

Coming out of the Recession — Creating an Opportunity Mindset

By Joe Calloway, Author of Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison Hopefully you didn’t miss it. It’s dominated the news for a year. It’s been described as difficult, daunting, and even devastating. People have referred to it as a meltdown and a disaster. It’s the recession. But no crisis [...]

Gen Y “The Lost Generation”

BusinessWeek’s cover story “The Lost Generation” frames Gen Y as a pathetic generation surrendering to our circumstances. Yes, the economy is piss poor, but is it true that “young people can’t even grab on to the first rung of the career ladder?” Millennials are not helpless and are certainly not entitled. This may be [...]

Are You Addicted to Social Media?

Have you checked your email, looked at your phone, or visited a social media site within the past few minutes? Do you refresh your email, glace at your phone, and check your Twitter/Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIN accounts 10+ times a day? If so, you are not alone! Much research and studies have shown a growing trend supporting the [...]

PopTech: Social Conference for World Changers

PopTech! … What is it? Well, it’s a conference, but a whole knew kind of meetup. It’s a meeting of some of today’s most influential minds, coming together to push the boundaries of human knowledge, finding solutions to today’s biggest problems and thinking about what’s coming up tomorrow. But the conference isn’t a talking heads festival; [...]

How To Find New Clients and Leads as a Young Entrepreneur

By Amanda L. Sage owner of Gong Gong Communications in Columbus, Ohio. Ask any business owner what their biggest struggle is and undoubtedly they’ll almost always say it’s finding new clients and getting leads. It’s the axiom of business. Everyone will fall into selling/marketing groove that works for them, however the key is to be [...]

Laurie Davis is Building the “eFlirt Expert” Brand

Online dating has exploded in recent years. We’ve all heard of people on sites like Match.com, eHarmony.com, or PlentyofFish.com. Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that opportunity is everywhere and its no different with the explosion of the online dating industry. Laurie Davis has jumped on this opportunity and has turned herself into the eFlirt [...]