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	<description>A Cautionary Tale for Would-Be Entrepreneurs</description>
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		<title>What Can You Learn About Running a Business By Watching a Hockey Game?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 16:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Discussing How To Start a Small Business at Trent University</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I had the great privilege of attending a class in the entrepreneurship program at Trent University, taught by Professor Cammie Jaquays. The students in the course were given an assignment in which they were to apply the principles for starting a new business as set out by Prof. John W. Mullins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Was the Biggest Mistake You Made in Your Business?&#8221; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great honour, on Tuesday of this week, of attending a class in entrepreneurship taught by Prof. Cammie Jaquays at Trent University in Peterbrough, Ontario. Prof. Jaquays divided the students in her class into six groups, and each was assigned the task of reading my book, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Dream Business Turn into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bias Against Stories of Unsuccess</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email recently from a very good friend who had read my book, and is currently reading the 2007 work by Nassim Nicholas Taleb entitled &#8220;The Black Swan&#8221;. My friend cited the following passage in Taleb&#8217;s book which he felt pertained to my book: Numerous studies of millionaires aimed at figuring out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Battle to Tell the Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I described the battle in which I am engaged to see to it that the case study which was created by the Ivey School of Business &#8211; one of the top business schools in Canada &#8211; based upon my book &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare&#8221; remains available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Make of This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare&#8221; is an honest account, from my perspective, of my experience in founding one of the first day spas for men in the world called The Men&#8217;s PowerSpa. When I had finished my book, in late 2008, I submitted it to one of the leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Was The Biggest Mistake That You Made in Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked by a university professor who is using my book &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare&#8221; in her course in entrepreneurship, what the biggest mistake was that I made in my business. As those of you who have read my blog are aware, my book is an account of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Think My Book is Too &quot;Negative&quot;, Buy Two Copies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of Woody Allen&#8217;s classic &#8220;Standup Comic&#8221; album, one of the few, if not only recordings of his live standup act of the 1960&#8242;s, he says to the audience &#8220;I&#8217;d really like to leave you with a positive statement, but I can&#8217;t. Would you accept two negative statements?&#8221; I was thinking about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, Why Did You Write Your Book?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, why did you write your book? If you are an author, you have probably been asked that question, or have asked it of yourself. Why did you bother to write your book? Writing a book is not easy &#8211; and selling a book is even harder. So, why do it, unless you are an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Say the Wrong Thing to the Right Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my most recent blog post I related an incident in which I was telling a friend about a nutritional program which has the dual effect of eliminating toxins from the body and also achieving weight loss in people who have excess weight &#8211; those who do not have weight to lose can actually gain [...]]]></description>
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