Eleven things I learned this year

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on December 31, 2006

And so just for a recap as we count down the hours and minutes until 2007, "Ten things I learned this year" plus one.

Thanks to fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz at the Instigator Blog for the great idea and great inspiration and here are my personal lessons for 2006:

Lesson# 1: I am an entrepreneur

There's no point in denying the truth. It's who I am and this year I've decided to embrace it... (Read More)

Lesson # 2: Bootstrapping is where it's at

After years of writing business plans and chasing deep pockets, I won't be waiting to start new ventures in 2007 until the right investor comers along. Here is the reason...(Read More)

Lesson# 3: Perfect is the enemy is good enough

A lifelong perfectionist and procrastinator has learned his lesson. See why every instinct you have to wait until you're sure you're ready to start is probably wrong...(Read More)

Lesson# 4: Roll with the punches

When everything that can go wrong has gone wrong, here's something to pull you through...(Read More)

Lesson# 5: Use what you've got

Pick a business you can start today (Or at least on Tuesday when you've recovered from celebrating New Year) Here's a post to get you in the frame of mind and put things in perspective...(Read More)

Lesson# 6: Get yourself a purple cow

Just imagine customers trying to ignore purple milk on the supermarket shelves...(Read More)

Lesson# 7: The best ideas are scalable

No matter what the idea, make sure there's a way to make it bigger. Don't worry about whether you know how to do it at the moment...(Read More)

Lesson# 8: Take one good idea and go deep

Venture Capitalist Brad Feld makes a good suggestion about providing focus to your next business venture, whatever it is...(Read More)

Lesson# 9 Business begins with the first dollar

Here's a reality check to keep you on track...(Read More)

Lesson # 10 The masses don't buy stuff any more

Marketing to the edge can leverage the customers of the future and position your new venture for limitless growth. Trying to be the next great supplier of anything people already have is probably a loosing strategy...(Read More)

Lesson# 11 You may not need a business plan

A lot of pretty successful people have never even taken the time to write one, so how important could it be?...(Read More)

For some more great lessons check out Ben's site for inspiration as we head into the New Year.