Thanks to all the fans of the O-Blog. I am happy to report, it is bigger, better and beefier than ever. AND it has moved! Go to www.ToiletPaperEntrepreneur.com and navigate to the blog. I think you will like it!
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10-Jul-08 05:36 by Mike Michalowicz 0 Comment
I just finished writing my book The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur and it is off to the printers. In about eight weeks, it will be on “the shelves.”
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03-Jul-08 05:36 by Mike Michalowicz 0 Comment
Do Everything You Can To Do As Little As Possible - It’s about time I answer a reoccurring question. People ask it in various ways but it boils down to: How can Obsidian be so stupid as to only partner with a very select group of people? Isn’t it dumb to only focus on entrepreneurs between 18 and 26, are early stage, don’t need immediate funding and are located in the northeast US? Clearly Obsidian is missing out on millions of extraordinary opportunities. Obsidian just doesn’t get it.
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26-Jun-08 14:36 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment
The 17 Greatest Entrepreneurial Blog Posts of 2008 (So Far) - I regularly read and comment on blogs about entrepreneurialism. Over the course of my internet “travels” during 2008 I’ve found what I believe are the seventeen best blogs out there. And within each blog I found, check out what I believe are the best posts:
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23-Jun-08 14:00 by Mike Michalowicz 4 Comment
Business Plans Are a Huge, Fat, Stinkin’ Waste of Time - The traditional business plan includes tons of research, a dream team of advisors, and the mandatory pessimistic projections. Shoot with this thorough approach and these ultra-realistic numbers, and you can easily achieve your plan of making at least $100M in revenue with $50M in profit within the next 5 years. And all you need to capture is 1% of the market. If every business plan came through, everyone on this planet would be a billionaire. But that’s far from the case. The reason is that business plans are never used as intended, nor do they ever achieve the stated expectations.
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19-Jun-08 15:19 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment
The Ten Biggest Entrepreneurial Mistakes - CNBC reached out to me a few months back and asked me what the top ten biggest entrepreneurial mistakes. The article has been on their site for more than a month now, but just in case you haven’t checked it out, here are the take aways:
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17-Jun-08 10:16 by Mike Michalowicz 2 Comment
Quite frankly, many books can be boiled down to a couple content rich pages. Very few are good enough to merit a page by page read. And even fewer are perfectly timed for the events of today. I recently came across one of those exceptional books that is content rich and perfectly timed. It’s called Bounce! by Barry J. Moltz.
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12-Jun-08 11:00 by Mike Michalowicz 2 Comment
I like to start meetings on time and get things done. So here are a few tricks I use. As a result I am never (well, very, very rarely) late for a meeting, and not pissed if the other guy is running late.
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10-Jun-08 09:11 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment
If You Are Not a Media Darling, Be a Media Whore - When it comes to garnering media exposure, there are quite a few entrepreneurial types out there. None are necessarily better than the other, but all leverage media exposure differently, for sure. Statistically, it is unlikely that you will be a Media Darling, the likes of PayPal, Google, and Salesforce.com. But you can become a Media Whore. And as Martha Stewart, a Media Whore herself, says, “It’s a good thing.”
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06-Jun-08 04:44 by Mike Michalowicz 6 Comment
The 7 Weirdest Entrepreneur Business Ideas - Has anyone ever told you that your business idea won’t make it? That your idea is too odd, too unique or too different? That you need to stick with what is proven? What matters is that you follow your passion, that you service a niche market better than anyone else, and that you commit to your own success relentlessly. It doesn’t matter what you do, nearly as much as how you do it. Here are the top seven weirdest entrepreneurial endeavors going on.
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03-Jun-08 15:28 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment
I have had a few aspiring entrepreneurs say to me that they realize they are too young to start a company. They don’t have the real world experience. They won’t be taken seriously. Plus, they have their entire life ahead of them anyway. They elect to wait. I believe that is a mistake. A tragic mistake. There is no time better to start a business then when you are young.
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30-May-08 12:06 by Mike Michalowicz 2 Comment
No one ever said building your company would be easy. The fact is, building a successful company takes consistent effort and serious focus. But it is so easy to get distracted. Here are 31 tips you can use to get your focus back.
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27-May-08 12:06 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment
It's a 3 day weekend! Time to relax. Time to be grateful for all we have.
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23-May-08 05:28 by Mike Michalowicz 0 Comment
Love it or hate. Rip off or not. This song went big. Really big. It went #1 in the US. It went #1 in Australia. It even went #1 in Ireland. For a kind-of-one-hit-wonder Vanilla’s song really went the distance. How did this happen? How did a song from a then unknown guy get so big? He did it by achieving the perfect storm for success and you can too.
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20-May-08 08:28 by Mike Michalowicz 2 Comment
It’s too gruesome to even put into words. Just look at the picture, but make sure you are sitting first.
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16-May-08 07:33 by Mike Michalowicz 1 Comment

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