The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

It’s easy to turn off prospective investors.
Just feed them the same old lines.
by Guy Kawasaki
For a few months, Ive had a constant ringing in my right ear. The condition is called tinnitus, and my doctors say that it can be cause by an ear infection, too much salt in one’s diet, a stressful lifestyle, or even a neuroma.
I have a different theory. I think that listening to the lies, exaggerations, and wishful thinking of entrepreneurs has caused the ringing. You see, I’m in the …

This is an article featured in the July 2009 Men’s Health Magazine which features Josh Duhamel on the cover. I couldn’t find the full article online so I decided to type the entire article in a blog post. I thought it was not only a great read, but inspirational as well and wanted to share it with anyone who crosses paths with my website. Enjoy!

You, Inc.

Do you really intend to spend your entire working life making money for somebody else? Why?
It’s time you invested in your most marketable product–yourself–and reaped …

There’s one thing I can’t stand and that’s shitty service. How is Charter Communications still accredited by and in good standing with the Better Business Bureau (BBB)? How have they not faced any sort of class action litigation? I’ve been with Charter for three years (my fault for not switching, though there aren’t many alternatives in the San Luis Obispo area I use DirectTV for television but Charter for internet) and have had multiple discrepancies with their service and my monthly bills over the years.
Where to begin? Their customer service, …

Have you had a Jamba Juice? If you haven’t, then you’ve been living in a hole for quite some time! It’s kind of neat that 2 of the founders of Jamba Juice, Kevin Peters and Joe Vergara, were students and graduates of Cal Poly State University (the college I attend). The 3rd was Kirk Perron who was a young entrepreneur who graduated from Cuesta, a junior college near Cal Poly. Their very first store was known as the Juice Club and it opened in April 1990 on Foothill Boulevard near …