http://www.richchristiansen.com Management Metaphores - Starting a Business Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my good friends and a individual that I just love to associate with is Garrett Gunderson. Garrett is the author of the New York Times Best selling book Killing Sacred Cows. [caption id="attachment_232" align="alignnone" width="120" caption="Garrett Gunderson"][/caption] Several months back I was on Garrett's radio program "The ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2010_03_10_intellectual-capital-relationship-capital-financial-capital.html We did it! Yesterday, CastleWave was formally sold to Imergent. CastleWave will be used as a key infrastructure component in Crexendo which is IMergent's venture into creating a nationally dominant SEO Marketing Agency. This was a cradle to grave (hopefully not grave) exit in 2 years 3 months and ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2010_02_10_from-cradle-to-exit-with-a-big-fat.html 'They're the best and the brightest. The hip and the happenin'. The bold and the brave.' Rich was recently recognized by Utah Valley Business Q magazine as one of the ten coolest entrepreneurs in Utah Valley! With the incredible amount of entrepreneurs and small business start-ups here in ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_12_15_10-coolest-entrepreneurs.html Attaining and maintaining an abundance mentality is absolutely crucial to your success as an entrepreneur. Although this truth ties in nicely with the idea that life gives you what you expect it to, it deserves its own consideration. What is an abundance mentality? An entrepreneur with an abundance mentality has ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_09_10_abundance-mentality.html Life gives you what you expect it to. If you expect success, everything you do translates into success—even your failures. If you expect failure, everything you do translates into failures—even your successes. If you expect to be loved, you will be loved; and if you expect to be taken advantage of ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_09_08_the-secret.html As you’ve tried to start a business, have you ever felt like a failure? Maybe not such a bad thing, as we learn today! Ron and I have a dear friend named Roger Reid who exemplifies the type of mindset and attitude necessary to thrive in times of turbulence. Roger ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_09_01_embracing-failure.html Today we learn about the loneliness of leadership: Great leaders are often required to stand alone. They must make difficult decisions and stand by them, sometimes facing immense opposition. Many business owners confuse popularity with good leadership. In truth, as you learn to make the hard choices and have the courage ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_08_27_loneliness-of-leadership.html As an entrepreneur, you can’t just rely on textbook solutions: you need to learn to trust your gut. Want to make a really big mistake? Don’t follow your gut. I can’t say enough about that little feeling known as “intuition.” Some of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in business resulted from ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_08_25_trusting-your-gut.html Today I'll key you in on what is needed to win as an entrepreneur. There is a man named Minesh Doshi who lives in Ahmedebad, India. He wanted his own computer hardware company, but didn’t have the capital for a full-scale start-up. Despite daunting obstacles, he began to work toward his ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_08_20_the-race-seldom-goes-to-the-fastest.html Today we begin Chapter 12 of Bootstrap Business: The Heart and the Head of the Entrepreneur. How many “do-it-yourself” books have you read? Of those, how many did you pick up a second time? And what about chapters you’ve read multiple times? Scan your bookshelves. Invariably, you’ll come ... http://www.richchristiansen.com/2009_08_18_porter%e2%80%99s-preface-the-heart-and-the-head-of-the-entrepreneur.html