Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

The only purpose of starting is to finish