By Cliff Ennico Entrepreneurs are today’s American heroes, and that’s a good thing. But too many people have an unrealistic picture in their heads of how things are going to go. They think that being a successful entrepreneur means they will be universally loved and rewarded, both financially and psychologically, and that everything will go […]
By Cliff Ennico Like the guy in Psalm 130, I am writing to you out of the depths of despair. I started a retail business last year involving a hot new technology. We needed some local real estate, and found a pretty good location, but when our contractor inspected the space after we signed the […]
Health seems to be on almost everyone’s mind today and this was highlighted recently when New York City became the first city to require warning labels for salt. When there is any major trend, smart entrepreneurs and established business leaders alike look for opportunities and the current focus on health is not only serving to […]
A lot of parents reading this have suffered through childhood piano lessons. They may have been required to take them when they were younger, and/or they may have made their children go through the ritual. I don’t want to give private piano lessons a bad rap here. I’ve played piano virtually all my life and […]
Can you make it as a small business entrepreneur when you seemingly have three strikes against you when you’re just starting out? Not long ago I talked to Catoctin Creek Distilling Company co-founder Scott Harris, and it seemed that when he and his wife Becky started their company, they were facing some very long odds. […]