A couple of weeks ago Penelope and I went to a meeting in Milwaukee with a group of potential investors. After the meeting, we went upstairs to grab a drink while the group discussed a few things. One of the guys came upstairs to shake our hands and say (...)

College campuses are becoming a fertile breeding ground for up-and-coming business owners. A recent study by The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor shows that 18- to 24-year-olds in the United States are starting businesses at a faster rate than 35- to 44-year-olds. Now is your prime time to consider opening up that tattoo parlor, bed and breakfast, or wilderness expedition center you've dreamed about.

Maybe you enjoy working the long hours. Yes, staying late to work on a deadline project or to finish the twenty things on your task list probably makes you feel a bit nobler than your cubicle-mate (who jets out the door as soon as that wall clock strikes 5 p.m.). There’s (...)

Launching BrazenCareerist.com was my first professional experience of timelessness, where time starts to become irrelevant and that feeling of normalcy that used to keep life balanced becomes harder and harder to get a grip on. Something really interesting happens when you’re completely absorbed by a project like that (...)

The only thing I knew about entrepreneurship when I joined Brazen Careerist was that it was going to be risky, more than I could have ever imagined during my time in Corporate America. In hindsight, I was probably ill-prepared to make such a big commitment. Would I have made (...)