A little peak into the world of Mr. Snowman the venture capitalist. Thanks to Sean [aka Snowman Dragon ] for sharing. This post was written by Jon Symons, see my short bio. Or use the contact page to get in touch.

Last week I went to a free seminar put on by the local Business Link. Quick tangent: in my city there is an excellent resource for entrepreneurs called the business link…probably deserves its own post, but you may want to be on the lookout for small business support from you municipal or state/provincial government. Micro business has a huge impact on the...

Inspired by my recent uncharacteristic spontaneous bout of public speaking, I realized that I would really like to get more comfortable being in front of a people in public, so I took in a meeting at my local Toastmasters group. In this group anyone can attend the meetings as a guest for free, but to be able to take the most advantage of the situation, to make...

One of the things that I can see is happening to me as I attempt to create wealth by building a business is the constant need to do things that are outside of my comfort zone. My biggest fear in life is and has always been public speaking. I get terrified. No different now than in seventh grade. Tonight I went to see a talk by Sean Wise [a thank you to Terry Ross of...

This post is a follow up to my recent One Essential Ingredient for Big Bucks Online article in which I drew the conclusion that in order to make any decent money, and to have a real business, an online entrepreneur needed to figure out how to leverage other people’s time and have their business grow beyond the magical number of ONE. I was hinting at...

The Art of the Start My project this week is to write a business plan for an upcoming venture. First off it goes completely against my nature to do any planning whatsoever, I much rather run blindly into the void until I hit an impervious brick wall, then come back and do some planning; but I’m trying to change! Diligently I began with a standard outline...