After a decade of growth, Chris Burton was faced with his first real test as a business owner when, in 2008, “everyone [...]
Tag Archives: entrepreneurship
Diversification is the Key
Unlocking Your Entrepreneurial Success I am a self-described “accidental entrepreneur.” It was never my intention to start and grow a business when [...]
Mike Means Entrepreneur of the Year
For some entrepreneurs the concept of “all in” means leveraging all your personal assets – e.g. your home and retirement savings – [...]
Reality Check for Would-be Entrepreneurs
Count your Costs before You Launch Have you ever thought that you might like to own your own business? Seems like a [...]
Are you Ready to Buy Yourself a Job?
Consider Purchasing a Franchise Pick up any newspaper or turn on the television and chances are there is a story about layoffs [...]
How to Capitalize Without Using Capital
What Would Sy Sax Do? Starting a business today may take a different paradigm and sometimes it takes looking at previous business [...]
Taking Some of the Risk Out of Risk-Taking
Keeping the Dream from Becoming a Nightmare Entrepreneurs are, by nature, risk-takers. While others are content to work a 9-to-5 job, accept [...]
Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise
SBA Support for Female Business Owners Increasingly, women entrepreneurs are entering the world of business ownership in a wide range of industries. Their [...]
Nurturing an Economic Renaissance
Why the Entrepreneurial Spirit is the Answer en·tre·pre·neur (ŏn’trə-prə-nûr’, -nŏŏr’) n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk of a [...]
Now is a Good Time to Get In Shape
Is it Time to Give Your Company a Check- Up? In a tough economy like we are currently seeing, now is the [...]
The Entrepreneurial Journey
Starting with an Idea, a Prayer and a Plan So you want to own your own business? I am often asked how [...]
Newton Land Development
Seeing the Possibilities that Produce the Solutions The era of the “Renaissance Man,” the master of multiple disciplines like science, art, history [...]
Certified General Contractors
Customer Care and Lifelong Service When Jim Stivers founded Certified General Contractors Inc. twenty years ago his goal was to provide a [...]
Brevard Eye Center
Staying FOCUSED on the People they Serve Over 24 years ago, Dr. Paul Befanis, an ophthalmologist who had studied medicine at the [...]
Island Tile
Lessons on the Entrepreneurial Journey B. C. Forbes once said, “If you do not drive your business, you will be driven out [...]
