Many young people entering the job market are facing one of the toughest job search periods in a very long time.  Even those with college degrees that were once in high demand are having a hard time finding a good paying job related to their field of study.  Many are taking lower paying jobs in an [...]

Tony Hsieh is a very successful entrepreneur.  He sold his company Zappos to Amazon.com for the incredible sum of $1.2 billion.  His book, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose describes how his vision for a successful company based on a relentless focus on company culture has turned this “everyday-guy” into a billionaire.  Some [...]

Many of us fantasize about leaving our day jobs to start our own business venture. Perhaps you have a passion you’d like to share with the world, or maybe you’d just like the autonomy of working for yourself. Whatever your reasons for starting, a successful foray into entrepreneurship requires savvy if you’re to avoid the [...]

When it comes to entrepreneurship Richard Branson is one of the most fascinating people that you can learn from.  Listen to Richard Branson in this video as he describes how he got into entrepreneurship and his amazing journey from being a dyslexic kid who few believed would lead to much, to becoming one of the [...]

The movie The Social Network which tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook is a blockbuster.  The popularity of Facebook combined with the fascination with the story of how a college student became a billionaire by the age of 25 is prime material for a huge Hollywood success.  But there are [...]