Author Archives: Jeremy Lattimore

Random Thought: How much change has occurred?

I was having a conversation yesterday with an online friend and we were discussing the movement of people into the freelance/entrepreneurial world and also the usage of telework resources.  One of the discussions that we were having revolved around whether this was a product of the current economic situation or whether the economic situation just [...]
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What’s your idea that won’t work?

I will honestly say that I never ceased to be amazed by the creativity people have and the ability to sell things that I would have never even considered.  As a software guy, I’m always thinking of this huge system that some gigantic business will need as the next great opportunity and someone comes up [...]
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Opportunity

Recently, I was looking at some quotes about business and life in general and I ran across the old unattributed quote: “Opportunity only knocks once”.  Who said that?  Are you kidding?  Opportunity knocks constantly.  Every single day some opportunity crosses in front of you.  Sure, opportunity doesn’t broadside us every day but it’s there.  Much [...]
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MBA to run small business?

Do entrepreneurs need an MBA? I have read this question and variants of this question so many times.  After attaining my MBA and working in a couple of entrepreneurial ventures I think that I have found the answer to the question.  So… what is it?  It depends on you. Is there an advantage to having [...]
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Why am I NOT doing this?

First off, thank you for all the comments last week on the “Why am I doing this?” post.  The concept of Lifestyle design really makes a lot of sense to me and I am trying to focus more effort on dreaming things into reality. This morning I was reading a post on Seth Godin’s blog [...]
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Why am I doing this?

You started your own business or maybe you’ve just thought about starting your own business.  The question is why?  Why are you going to try starting a business or why did you start a business?  It’s a lot of headache.  Did you start it for the money?  Or maybe the time?  Or was it the [...]
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Random Thoughts

I was just taking a few minutes and reviewing some of my recent posts here on StartUpStudent.  While doing that I noticed that there is kind of method to what I feel is my madness.  If you put the tasks together hopefully you’re going to find a set of steps that will take you down [...]
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Baby Steps

Have you seen the movie “What about Bob?“?  In that movie, Bob is afraid of going out of his house and the doctor tells Bob to use baby steps to get places.  So, Bob is repeating that throughout the movie “Baby Steps to the car… Baby steps to the car”.  Anyway, this is really a [...]
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The Outsourcing Debate

Over the past couple of months, I have run across a debate brewing and it seems that a recent post by CopyBlogger has really caused there to be a little bit of a social media battle over the last week. That argument is should a business really outsource and can you build a business on [...]
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What do you love?

Everyday you read articles about people who have created the business of their dreams.  You also read about people who are creating new niches that no one ever thought of.  What I really find interesting is that at least 9 times out of 10 the people have found an idea that they are absolutely consumed [...]
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