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Does A Military Background Help Or Hurt In StartUps?

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How to run a startup like a SEAL Platoon

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Doing The Right Thing — When People Are Watching, But Don’t Care

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As The U.S. Government Shrinks, 3 Surefire Ways To Win Contracts

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Is America Still The Home Of Entrepreneurship?

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What makes an entrepreneur?

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10 Rules From the Trenches to Help Build Your Business

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How To Train Your Managers — Leadership Training For Employees

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Sea Daddies And Career Mentors….Who Needs Them? Pretty Much Everyone.

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New Years Resolutions as Part of the Journey

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Battlefields And Boardrooms – Taking The Smartest From Both And Putting Them Together

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‘No Budget, No Pay’ – Forcing Our Elected Officials To Work On ‘Pay for Performance’?

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A Conversation With Richard Baldridge, ViaSat President

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Leadership in Startups

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Vision Is Not The Roadmap, It’s The Reason For Having The Map In The First Place

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Musashi-Style Negotiations In Business – Set The Game Board Before The Battle Begins

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Six Crucial Questions To Ask When Picking A Business Partner

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You Don’t Need A Better Mousetrap, Or Three Steps To Start A Successful Business

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The Requirement To Trust As A Function Of Leadership

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5 Must-Read Books For Starting Your Company

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5 Tips For Keeping Your Startup Business Growing

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Sharpening The Saw – End Of Year Reflections And Reinvigoration For The Entrepreneur

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Metrics Vs. Intuition – Which Is Most Important In A Startup?

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How Valuable Is Your Idea, Really? Guidelines As To When You Can And Should Share Your Ideas

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The Importance Of Assimilation In Your Employee Training Program

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6 Steps To Using Envisioning To Attain Your Business Goals

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Why Reputation Should Not Be Everything When Selecting Advisors – 4 Tips To Avoiding Con Artists

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Starting A Business Based On Doing What You Love – Four Steps To Follow

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What Is A Post Objectivist: Definition

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5 Businesses You Can Start In College To Pay Tuition

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I’m Planning To Start My Own Business, Why Bother With A College Degree?

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Bill Gates Proposes A Tax On Robots – Why Not Just Pay His Own Taxes First?

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What Will Prevent Compromise On Trump’s Tax Reform?

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How United’s Culture Of Employee Welfare Over Customer Trust Resulted In the Screaming Passenger Video

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What is Post Objectivism?

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America’s Baby Bust – Busted. Immigrants Are The Answer And The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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YouTube Censors Fox News And PragerU – Do We Need Radio Free America To Allow Free Speech?

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It Was The Best In People, It Was The Worst In People

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    YouTube Censors Fox News And PragerU – Do We Need Radio Free America To Allow Free Speech?

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    What is Post Objectivism?

What Is A Post Objectivist: Definition

Definition: post ob·jec·tiv·ist /pōst – äbˈjektəˌvist/ noun a person who believes in the philosophy of post-objectivism a person who subscribes to the philosophy of Objectivism with…

It Was The Best In People, It Was The Worst In People

The spring of 2020 will obviously be remembered for the Covid-19 disease pandemic, caused by a coronavirus which originated in Wuhan, China. But it will…

YouTube Censors Fox News And PragerU – Do We Need Radio Free America To Allow Free Speech?

Radio Free Asia is a US funded broadcasting corporation whose stated mission is  “to provide accurate and timely news and information to Asian countries whose…

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America’s Baby Bust – Busted. Immigrants Are The Answer And The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

The Wall Street Journal posted a very interesting article talking about “America’s Baby Bust” by Jonathan V. Last.   The one sentence summary is that America…

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What is Post Objectivism?

Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, embodied and promulgated through her books Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead, has been both famous and infamous from its inception.…

How United’s Culture Of Employee Welfare Over Customer Trust Resulted In the Screaming Passenger Video

I think most folks are familiar with the videos circulating on social media of the United passenger who was forcibly removed from a United flight.…

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What Will Prevent Compromise On Trump’s Tax Reform?

The core issue preventing compromise on Trump’s tax reform isn’t special interests, it’s ideology. Tax Reform is the next great undertaking by President Trump and Congress.…

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Bill Gates Proposes A Tax On Robots – Why Not Just Pay His Own Taxes First?

There was an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the “Bill Gates robot tax”, reflecting a proposal by Mr. Gates to…

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I’m Planning To Start My Own Business, Why Bother With A College Degree?

Do I need a college degree if I plan to start my own business? I’ve heard this question in a number of forms, and there…

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5 Businesses You Can Start In College To Pay Tuition

For those of you who have students preparing to go to, or currently attending college, the costs probably are daunting.  The cost of a year…

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Starting A Business Based On Doing What You Love – Four Steps To Follow

This blog is a continuation of the series of profiles I’ve done on entrepreneurs. The purpose of this series is to provide examples of how…

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Why Reputation Should Not Be Everything When Selecting Advisors – 4 Tips To Avoiding Con Artists

Over the years I’ve run across many people who seek to take advantage of those who have been successful.  As one would think, as I’ve…

6 Steps Using Envisioning Attain Business Goals

6 Steps To Using Envisioning To Attain Your Business Goals

Visualization, or envisioning, and the use of visualization as a business tool, is not new.  It’s been around for decades, but like many other fundamental…

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The Importance Of Assimilation In Your Employee Training Program

“You will be assimilated.”  As anyone who was a fan of Star Trek, The New Generation, is aware, this was the favorite statement of the…

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How Valuable Is Your Idea, Really? Guidelines As To When You Can And Should Share Your Ideas

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard the phrase “I have a great idea that is going to make me millions, but I…

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Metrics Vs. Intuition – Which Is Most Important In A Startup?

Entrepreneurs, like other managers, have different management and leadership styles.  Many entrepreneurs make their decisions based primarily upon their “gut”, their intuitive feeling about what…

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Sharpening The Saw – End Of Year Reflections And Reinvigoration For The Entrepreneur

Most anyone that has been in business for more than a couple years is familiar with Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People” and…

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5 Tips For Keeping Your Startup Business Growing

In a previous post I went through the basics of what makes a business idea successful.  In another posting I talked about 10 Rules from…

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5 Must-Read Books For Starting Your Company

When starting a company, there are many resources available to you with folks telling how, why, when and where to start your business in order…

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The Requirement To Trust As A Function Of Leadership

I’ve written several times in this blog about the connections  between military leadership and leadership in the commercial sector, particularly in startups.  I was sent…

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You Don’t Need A Better Mousetrap, Or Three Steps To Start A Successful Business

I have drawn parallels in previous blogs between being a Navy SEAL and being a successful entrepreneur.  One commonality is that both are relatively difficult ambitions, with far greater…

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Six Crucial Questions To Ask When Picking A Business Partner

Who makes a better business partner, a loyal friend or family member that you can trust or a relative stranger with a great CV but…

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Musashi-Style Negotiations In Business – Set The Game Board Before The Battle Begins

There are many analogies that have been made between business and combat, particularly in the area of negotiations.  Unfortunately, many of these analogies focus on…

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Vision Is Not The Roadmap, It’s The Reason For Having The Map In The First Place

In my last blog I talked a bit about how leadership is even more important in startups than in large companies, because large companies can often mask a…

Starting Business Based Doing What You Love Four Steps Follow

Leadership in Startups

 While on active duty I had the pleasure of working for ADM Bill McRaven back when he was the Commanding officer of SEAL Team 3.…

People

A Conversation With Richard Baldridge, ViaSat President

I had the opportunity to listen to Richard Baldridge, the President of ViaSat at a UCSD CONNECT event about a month ago.  Mr. Baldridge, with…

Taxes, Bill Gates robot tax, Robot Tax

‘No Budget, No Pay’ – Forcing Our Elected Officials To Work On ‘Pay for Performance’?

“No budget, no pay” is one provision of the House bill that temporarily suspends the national debt ceiling and that is going in front of the Senate.…

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Battlefields And Boardrooms – Taking The Smartest From Both And Putting Them Together

Military intelligence – the most commonly offered oxymoron.  But is it really an oxymoron? Although there are things that the military, like any large bureaucracy,…

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New Years Resolutions as Part of the Journey

The holidays, for me, are a time to reflect on the past year’s events, good and bad, the growth and development of my company, the…

Sea Daddies And Career Mentors….Who Needs Them? Pretty Much Everyone.

In the Navy we had a role called a “Sea Daddy”.  This was not a reference to promiscuous sailors with children in every port (at…

Businessmen Professional

How To Train Your Managers — Leadership Training For Employees

In many small companies, there is no formal manager training.  People do well, they get promoted.  Small companies can’t afford to have an internal University…

10 Rules From the Trenches to Help Build Your Business

So now you’re cash flow positive for your first year and the sky is the limit for your business, congratulations!  Here are some tips, most…

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What makes an entrepreneur?

This is a great question, asked and answered, sometimes insightfully, more often not, thousands of times.  One problem I have seen with the answers to…

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Is America Still The Home Of Entrepreneurship?

Where do you go in this world if you’re young, smart, ambitious, and want to start a business and make millions?   The U.S. of A.…

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As The U.S. Government Shrinks, 3 Surefire Ways To Win Contracts

It’s no secret to any government contractor that the current budget tightening initiatives in Congress will mean less business to go around. That doesn’t mean,…

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Doing The Right Thing — When People Are Watching, But Don’t Care

A friend and business partner of mine, RADM (ret) Hamlin Tallent (callsign “Ham”, though I have never been able to figure out why), was at…

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How to run a startup like a SEAL Platoon

Start off every day at 4 am by forcing everyone to jump in 50 degree water, roll around in the sand, and run 10 miles…

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Does A Military Background Help Or Hurt In StartUps?

Why wouldn’t you hire a veteran in a startup?  When I first left the military I interviewed with Andersen Consulting (later to become Accenture) and…

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Eric Basu
I'm a former Navy SEAL officer, current serial entrepreneur, and would-be lay philosopher.

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