Wednesday, March 17, 2021, is national SBDC Day which recognizes the impact of America’s Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) on the success of our nation’s dreamers, innovators, and doers – America’s small businesses. Here’s a little history lesson. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that enacted the Small Business Development Centers program into [...]
Greetings and Happy Holidays to you all from my dining room table. How our work environments have changed! In gathering my thoughts for our last newsletter of the year, the following phrase comes to mind: “If I knew then what I know now.” Who could have imagined last year at this time, what was about [...]
Move the needle might be a tired cliché or metaphor, but for entrepreneurs it’s an important gauge for whether you’re making progress. As entrepreneurs we get stuck in thinking that ‘launching’ requires a big idea that changes the course of history. We, therefore, delay launching new products or companies because we’re waiting for ‘perfection’ or the [...]
