How To Become An Entrepreneur

4 Ways To Take Charge Of Your Woefully Antiquated Learning Gap

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ March 23, 2013 ⋅ 6 comments

Looking around the room, a sparse, modern, white loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, I realized I was 20 years older than everyone else. Thankfully, there came a man (read more...)

Business Killers: 8 Lame Mistakes of Small-Business Owners

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ November 20, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Our guest contributor, Paul Herman, offers a summary of unintended mistakes for small-business owners to avoid. Enough already with talk of our country’s fiscal cliff. How about the fiscal cliff (read more...)

The New Entrepreneurs: A Bar Is Born

By Sharon O'Day ⋅ September 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

This is the first in a series of posts profiling entrepreneurs. Sharon O’Day, a maestro of entrepreneurship herself, is our guest contributor. To remedy the busted economy, older people are (read more...)

The Skill Set That Exceeds The Value Of An MBA

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ August 5, 2012 ⋅ 17 comments

This two-part post features the sage advice of Will Bachman, a management consultant who shared his passion for uber-sharp Excel and Pivot table skills in a conversation with the author. (read more...)

Get Paid Faster: 3 Tools So You Stop Giving It Away

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ July 7, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Do you do a million tasks for free, and then wonder why you are not seeing the dollars? Fret no more; I’m gonna help you get paid, and get paid (read more...)

3 Directives to Ensure the Success of Your Career

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ June 12, 2012 ⋅ 13 comments

As she came closer to me on my morning walk, we exchanged smiles and nods. Clearly, she was lost. She pulled out a map, but she had no idea where (read more...)

Using Video to Humanize Your Brand: Two Case Studies Engage The Younger Market Segment

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ June 8, 2012 ⋅ 14 comments

Back in the day, some Dads explained dating, sex and responsible behavior to their sons. Or, a young guy would get advice from his schoolyard buddies re how to ask (read more...)

Improved Tools for Driving Search, Journalism, and Content Strategy

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ May 31, 2012 ⋅ 9 comments

Keywords are out! Kaput! Passé! Semantic search is in. Just as Rosie used a paper towel that was a “quicker picker upper,” digital search has become more exact by using (read more...)

How To Be A Bulldog In A Male-Dominated Industry

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ May 14, 2012 ⋅ 6 comments

When I refer to someone as “Potentate of the Board Room,” do you think of a woman? I would guess not. Because we all know, comparatively speaking, there are really (read more...)

A Wake Up Call: Drawing Inspiration To Act On Your Options

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ 13 comments

“I sat for 3 days and watched the foot traffic of this neighborhood.” Cynthia DiBartolo was referring to Lower Manhattan, with its financial institutions of long history, and its locus (read more...)