• 13 More Books for Every Entrepreneur

    Master the fundamentals of entrepreneurship at every stage in your career Previously, I wrote about 13 books every entrepreneur should read, but if that was the baseline, this is the update: 13 more books every entrepreneur can benefit for reading: The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career…

  • My Local Heroes

    I’ve previously written about my media heroes, my ceo heroes, top entrepreneurs, and bulldozers, but today I wanted to talk about my local heroes, the ones who live in or around Indianapolis who have influenced me in some meaningful way, are hubs of influence in Indianapolis and who I have recently been able to meet:…

  • Who Asked You to Start a Business, Anyway?

    So you want to start your own business? Great. Here’s what your’e up against: The Government – It seems like the government should have your back. After all, you’re creating taxable income for them and either do or will help create new jobs, which in turn creates more taxable income for them, but your new…

  • 13 Books Every Entrepreneur Can Benefit From Reading

    A lot of times I find myself referencing a book or two that I’ve read and people will ask me for a list of books that I recommend on business startups, business growth, personal development, or about being an entrepreneur in general so I compiled this list of books with links where you can purchase…

  • How to Start an Internet Marketing Business

    I spoke a little bit about how to start an Internet marketing business on my blog, An Entrepreneurial Mind, but wanted to go into more detail here about how I got started in Internet marketing and what products I’d recommend. I got started in Internet marketing almost by mistake. I was doing some research about…

  • Gig Economy Allows Entrepreneurs to Start on a Dime

    Cloud Computing Lowering Barriers to Entry, Allowing the Gig Economy to Thrive Startups have traditionally been capital intensive ventures and most have had to wait until they got big to look big.  Not anymore. Web services in the cloud have made start-up costs not just affordable, but in some cases free, and they are the…

  • The Entrepreneurial Mind Shift

    Is working for yourself or for others more risky? That’s the question Hannah Kaufman Joseph tried to answer in the Indianapolis Business Journal. She has had the somewhat unique experience of interviewing new entrepreneurs about their motivations after they come to her firm for legal help in setting up a new business. What she found…

  • List of Entrepreneurs

    Top Entrepreneurs Focus has a list of the “Top Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years”, which features Andrew Carnegie, Oprah Winfrey (one of our Famous Entrepreneurs), Thomas Edison (one of Elon Musk‘s heroes), Estee Lauder, Ray Kroc, Bill Gates, Conrad Hilton Sr., Steve Jobs (one of our Serial Entrepreneurs), Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Michael Dell,…

  • Famous Entrepreneurs

    Walt Disney – An influential innovator and entrepreneur in the mid 20th century, Disney is the man behind the Magic Kingdom, not to mention the hundreds of animated cartoons, countless feature films and endless toys that bear his name. Oprah Winfrey -an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk…