: About Me

Well the first time I wrote this 'about me' it read like a resume. Whoa, that was boring. So see the guy in the picture? He is Captain William Smith who wound up marrying John Adams daughter, Abagail (Named after her mother) and was aide to General George Washington, freinds with Thomas Jefferson and General Lafayette. Lafayette and he were harrying the British with the hit and run attacks. The painting was probably done early in Captain Smith's career as aide to John Adams and a young Mather Brown painted it in London shortly after Smith accompanied Adams as his aide as the ambassador for the United States to the British crown. A later picture by Brown shows him thinner and a bit more stressed but still has the same hairline, chin and mouth..

Anyway, the world even knows less about me and maybe that is a good thing? I have run and started businesses and have been doing it since I was a kid. My jobs in corporations usually included an assistant, a telephone an expense account and a target industry to break open. I left corporate world a long time ago and have been on my own ever since.

My job in real life is to help companies survive. It's a tough job finding money. Entrepreneurs, that's really where most of your time is spent, hunting for money. When you find it, take the money and advance your company, don't worry about the dilution, dilution is inevitable, sometimes its more than you want but hey, if you can make payroll, its worth it.

My passion is ...

Books- old, first editions and book making and printing.

I know too much about ...

a lot of stuff-biology, chemistry, books, antiques, art...

My parents always told me ...

work hard.

My childhood ambition ...

to have my own business.

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my daughter and son.

Why I write ...

because its fun.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

is any thing that interests me.

My first job ...

was selling newspapers at the race track as well as walking and grooming race horses. Noble animals.

My best moment ...

was starting my own company.

My inspiration ...

was John F. Kennedy...ask not. Martin Luther King..I have a dream...

Business > Entrepreneurship Life's lessons from entrepreneurship

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Early sunrise- it's good to get up early! The keys to finding out whether or not you are an entrepreneur is to get up every morning before anyone else in your household. Why? Well entrepreneurs, like writers need quiet time and at least in my house, when no one else is up, it's quiet. Of course that means you also have to be quiet. You can't do the banging around the kitchen, like a wounded herd elephant, which is what I tend to do and if you're a woman, well, it's my experience they know how to be quiet in the morning, must be something innate to women. Men, well we certainly didn't inher...

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