I’m two and a half years out of college with a degree in Political Science and dashed dreams of teaching college thanks to the GRE . In that time I chased down four different jobs and honestly got tired of chasing the next opening in my field. You see, I'm from the non-profit world, [...]
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Posted by: Reagan Lynch, November 5, 2009
It’s easy: ig-zek-yuh-mah-muh. That's it!
My name is Akilah S. Richards, and as a working mother committed to her business ventures and prioritizing her family, I represent a growing breed of women, whom I've dubbed "Execumamas." Execumamas by definition are in the 21 to 35 age range, and many of us are entrepreneurs and WAHMs [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, October 8, 2009
I am an academic by training and by my regular employment, teaching anthropology and gender studies and publishing papers for the academic press. But despite what you may have heard, there's not a lot of money in academia, especially for an adjunct like me, so a couple of years ago I took the plunge [...]
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Posted by: Dustin Wax, October 6, 2009
With the ever-increasing list of self-employed professionals, side business owners, recently laid-off employees or freelancers foremost in our mind, we've extended our partnership with Network Solutions.
A five-city whistle-stop tour of the U.S. will herald the launch of UnintentionalEntrepreneur.com and offer a chance to chat with Outright, veteran entrepreneurs, and budding sole proprietors. The road [...]
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Posted by: Paul O'Brien, July 7, 2009
I can honestly say my junior year in high school changed the course of my life. My mother's entire family worked in the medical profession in some way and growing up surrounded by doctors, nurses and pharmacists, I had always planned to do the same. My junior year in high school I had [...]
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Posted by: Wray Rives, July 1, 2009
With Estimated Taxes behind us we thought we'd share a brief reprieve, along with our excitement for our new office in downtown Campbell. Just a few weeks ago, we moved to a beautiful, historic building on E. Campbell Ave. with tremendous character both inside and out.
Campbell is a wonderful home for an entrepreneur, with [...]
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Posted by: Paul O'Brien, June 16, 2009
Easy, Necessary, and Outright Brilliant:
Frankly, the thought of sorting through receipts, figuring out profit and loss statements, and doing more than the basic Web-based and in-house file-making projects for each of our seventeen clients scares me more than forgetting my designated Snack Captain status at my daughters’ soccer game! Seriously, us Superwomen mompreneurs are [...]
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Posted by: Akilah Richards, June 11, 2009
We've received so many nice words of encouragement from users over the months that we wanted to share the feedback with others. Rest assured, we also receive plenty of comments on how we can make the site better, which is tremendously helpful. But we thought it would be good to showcase some [...]
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Posted by: Kevin Reeth, November 4, 2008