Jerry R Mitchell's Blog

  I’d like to throw out a couple of questions:  Do you trust your gut? Do you ever get a “feeling” about something? Do you listen to your inner voice? Assuming you’ve recognized a gut feeling, do you have the confidence, courage and conviction to act on it, even if it’s counterintuitive?  Great! Talk to [...]

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  For the true entrepreneur, this is a rhetorical question.  For the emerging entrepreneur, there are at least three major motivations: The FIRST motivation is a yearning to create something novel and useful. “To be on the cutting edge” is a necessary mantra.  The technology entrepreneur strives to fill a need in the marketplace and [...]

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  The economic reality in which we now live requires and rewards entrepreneurship. Fortunately, we all have the ability within ourselves to be entrepreneurial, whether as full-blown entrepreneurs or as enterprising people creating rewarding work. And once we’ve tasted the freedom of doing what we want to do, there’s no going back. Our thinking changes, [...]

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As I sat here at my desk today  reflecting on what my life  is all about I started to realize what my life has been about. Entrepreneurship and the life changing lessons I have enjoyed through the years. By writing these blogs my thought has always been how I could share my life’s experiences with [...]

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My objective for writing  a  free newsletter and a blog is  to raise awareness of the option of starting a business among young people in addition to the general promotion of entrepreneurship Thinking about starting a business is a challenge at any time and when you are young it can be of real help and support [...]

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Recently I have been attending a great deal of events to network with others in the Midwest  business community and as usual have found the topic for this message. It seems to me that way too many individuals I have met are more concerned about semblance then they are about substance, and I don’t want [...]

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Although lately some individuals have doubted the efficiency of the American worker, no one can dispute the effect that American ingenuity has had in shaping the world. The American entrepreneurs’ creative desire for innovation has fostered many revolutionary products and industries, including electricity, the light bulb, semiconductors, and personal computers. American research and development remains [...]

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People need to learn all through their lives. We live in a society that rewards continual acquisition of skills and knowledge The level of community service is a good indication of the health of any society. To get the most from life, one must be both mentally and physically fit. All people need to know [...]

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The real purpose of a business plan Many owners of small to medium size companies do not have documented business plans and see little value in planning. Entrepreneurs with an idea are confident that it will work and want to move forward to start their own company. All of these people have the feeling that [...]

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    I’ve had it! I’m getting fed up with the flood of well-intended, but misguided, business books often written by a consultant. Now that may sound like a strange pronouncement coming from someone who consults. So I better explain. The consultant/theorizes aren’t wrong. In fact, some of them are mostly correct – at least [...]

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