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    <pubDate>2007-08-03</pubDate>
        
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		  		<title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Why and 5 More Why Not to Start Your Own Business]]></title>
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				This post started with a conversation I overhead while walking on a sidewalk. I didn’t want to hear it, but they were very loud. I’ll spare you the details. It did get me thinking about these two lists: first why, and then why not to start your own business.
First, a note about the outcome and [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/5-reasons-why-and-5-more-why-not-to-start-your-own-business.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:07:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[I Hate the Small Biz Political Sleaze]]></title>
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				Damn, elections are heating up again. So we’re going to listen to an endlessly insulting harangue of politicians claiming to speak for “small business.” As if anybody could speak for small business, given that just about the only thing business owners have in common with each other is that they have nothing in common with [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/i-hate-the-small-biz-political-sleaze.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:16:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[Whoops, my Bad: Blogging Tool Fail]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/what-i-got-from-business-education.html]]> </link>
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				Whoops! Sorry. If you came here for &#8216;what I got from my business education,&#8217; the confusion related to that title was my mistake. I posted the title accidentally, then deleted it. If you&#8217;re interested, I covered that topic in 2007 with reflections on My MBA Experience.
 What happened was that I was changing options on [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/what-i-got-from-business-education.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:46:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[Is Getting an MBA Wasting Time and Money?]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/mba-as-wasting-time-and-money-with-apologies-to-dentists.html]]> </link>
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				What if the “is getting an MBA worth it” question isn’t really a matter of money? What if it depends on who you are, where you are, what resources you have, and what you want? 
Penelope Trunk posted Why an MBA Is a Waste of Time and Money recently on BNET. She lists seven reasons, [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/mba-as-wasting-time-and-money-with-apologies-to-dentists.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:08:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[Do You Know What Labor Day Is?]]></title>
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				I didn’t know this, probably  because I’ve never bothered to ask, but the U.S. Labor Day celebration today dates back to the 1880s, the days of robber barons and unbridled abuses of capitalism, to celebrate the labor movement.  
I suppose that should have been obvious. But we had a discussion over dinner the other day, [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/do-you-know-what-labor-day-is.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:48:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[True Story: Do Entrepreneurs Like Risk?]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/are-business-owners-risk-takers-not-when-it-comes-to-their-finances.html]]> </link>
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				The answer to that question is: no. Not any more than the next person. They just like their business better. They took risks because they saw the goal. It was the dark side of building the company. They had to. But when it comes to savings and investment, no.
Well, actually, the most correct answer to [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/are-business-owners-risk-takers-not-when-it-comes-to-their-finances.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:31:43 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[The 3 Most Often Overlooked Pieces of the Business Plan]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/top-3-mistakes-in-business-planning.html]]> </link>
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				Yes, it is true that plans are stories and stories drive plans, but that’s not stories as visions of the future and plans as managing and steering to make those visions true; we’re not talking about fairy tales. Make your planning real. Make it help your business. Make it help you control your destiny and [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/top-3-mistakes-in-business-planning.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:28 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[And Who Can Blame Her for Cutting Off Comments&#8230;]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/how-ted-connects-the-idea-hungry-elite-fast-company.html]]> </link>
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				Damn. It’s been a long day, some of my sites got hacked, a car didn’t start, and … well, you know how that goes. You have those days too. This will go up tomorrow morning but I’m mad as hell tonight, while writing it.
Just look at this picture:

What a damned shame. Who can blame her [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/how-ted-connects-the-idea-hungry-elite-fast-company.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:14:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[When Patents Are Patently Absurd]]></title>
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				Is Paul Allen a patent troll now? The same Paul Allen that was Bill Gates’ partner in Microsoft? Paul Allen who is worth billions of dollars?
Oh no. Say it ain’t so.
Last week wired.com reported Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web … Except Microsoft. Allen, Bill Gates’ original partner in Microsoft, and an extremely [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/08/when-patents-are-patently-absurd.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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		  		<title><![CDATA[Is Your Business Either Growing or Dying?]]></title>
	      		<link><![CDATA[http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/08/in-business-its-grow-or-die-what-do-you-think.html]]> </link>
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				True story: there were six of us at lunch together on a beautiful late spring day in 1996. We sat on an outside table in the shade and discussed the next big growth spurt.  Would we take this marketing-on-steroids proposal, at a high cost? Would it work? Could we afford not to?
I&#8217;m not sure [...]<a href=http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/08/in-business-its-grow-or-die-what-do-you-think.html target='_blank'> <u>...&raquo;</u> </a>				]]></description>
	      		<pubDate> Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:15:00 +0000 </pubDate>
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