By Chip Dodd, an EO Southeast Virginia member and president and CEO of Support Services of Virginia, Inc. “Let’s call it!” “What?” I said. With a dead-serious look on his face, my company’s CFO repeated… Read more »
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How Chasing Venture Capitalists Nearly Cost Me My Sanity
By Corrine Sandler, EO Toronto member and CEO of Fresh Intelligence When I started my first business seven years ago, I knew that I had a concept that I had to act on quickly. But… Read more »
The 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurs
By Cheryl Tan, a Strategic Alliance Partner with EO Southeast Virginia Interested in taking your business from under-performing to off the charts? Or are you in growth mode or ready for the next level in your entrepreneurial journey? Entrepreneurs’… Read more »
Entrepreneurship: The Effort between Risk and Reward
by Indira Kaur Ahluwalia, an EO DC member and President of Development & Training Services, Inc. An entrepreneur has infallible passion and has to have an almost delusional sense of reality. There is only one… Read more »
Why it Pays to Be a Contrarian
By Alan C. Fox, an Overdrive contributor, and author of PEOPLE TOOLS FOR BUSINESS: 50 Strategies for Building Success, Creating Wealth, and Finding Happiness In his famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost declared… Read more »
Having an Open-Minded Company Culture
By Susan Meitner, an EO Philadelphia member, and president/CEO of Centennial Lending Group Every industry and business has its ups and downs. I had been working in the mortgage industry for 20 years before I decided… Read more »
The Happiness Factor
By Rob Miller, EO Vancouver member and co-founder of Miller Titerle LLP About a year into our business, my partner and I became concerned that our employees were not as happy as they could be. While… Read more »
How One Entrepreneur Mom Won the Work-Life Balance Game
By Sheena Lindahl, special to Overdrive It was 2008 when Sarah Schupp’s dream was crushed. She had commitments (but not yet checks) for a $2 million round of funding her company was raising to scale. She… Read more »
6 Tips to Grow Your Extra Income
By Akhil Shahani, an EO Mumbai member and CEO of The Shahani Group So you made some extra cash in your first business. Planning to blow it all? Not a bad idea, but you could do… Read more »
One-on-one with the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year
If the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Global Finals were any indication, the future of young entrepreneurship is bright. For the first time in GSEA’s history, the title of “Global Student Entrepreneur of… Read more »