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Jerome Jenkins, Entrepreneur

Photo Courtesy of CNN Last night I had the privilege of being in the room with Jerome Jenkins (above), one of the principals at C Jenkins Company in Ferguson, MO.  You may remember seeing pictures or stories about Jerome and his wife, Cathy (also above) during the riots in Ferguson following the shooting of Michael […]

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The $100 Startup – A Book Review

A few days ago I got a welcome surprise in my mailbox: A copy of the new Chris Guillebeau book The $100 Startup : Reinvent The Way You Make A Living, Do What You Love and Create A New Future.   If you are not familiar with Chris, he runs one of my favorite web properties, The Art […]

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I Know Nothing About Textiles

That did not stop me from attending an event last Friday night here in Raleigh put on by, among others, Amy Quinn. I know Amy from CTK Raleigh. After attending the debut of their new textile design collective, The Common Seam, I was impressed by a number of things. The first is that I clearly […]

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Jack of more than one trade?

I was reading this post this morning by Seth Godin wherein he talks about wearing more than one hat. I have been thinking a lot about this recently for myself personally, particularly around the idea of an entrepreneur being only an entrepreneur. Can you be both an employee and an entrepreneur? Or does it have […]

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