The Ready Entrepreneur Podcast

What is the approach aspiring entrepreneurs can use to learn about business outside of business school or any other type of formal education?  In this episode, learn tips and strategies for giving yourself an 'offline' non-formal business education.  You can utilize resources from publicly available books to open meetings to one-on-one interviews, but you have to know how to approach sou...

You can lead, follow or get out of the way.  Yet many people choose to stand still, as obstructionists.  An aspiring entrepreneur may face these obstacles in the real world, or in her own head.  To get around the negativity, entrepreneurs need to think of themselves as contributors.  People who provide positive energy towards delivering value into the global marketplace by identifying products or...

Technology may be replacing humans at many jobs, but aspiring entrepreneurs have an opportunity to avoid being made redundant by starting a business based on a unique product or service offering.  If you have a business idea in your head that addresses a gap in the global marketplace, you are providing a consumer solution that has not been upended by tech change.  Becoming an entrepreneur and star...

As an entrepreneur, the entire world is your potential market.  You can bring your unique product or service idea to a wide audience, and find new customers who are interested in being part of your community.  When you see the world's cities and countries as your neighborhood, you are part of the economy, and if you have an offering that appeals to like-minded people in diverse markets, your...

Have you ever wondered how the most successful entrepreneurs just manage to get up and make their business happen?  How are they able to just do the work day in and day out? As an aspiring entrepreneur, you are interested in taking control of your life by starting your own business.  But you worry about having the spark needed to make your own dream happen.  You know you want to make it happen, bu...

Would you like to be an entrepreneur for your entire working life? This extended interview episode is a conversation with Guthrie Chamberlain, founder of Venture Consulting Group.  Guthrie has more than 40 years experience as an entrepreneur.  Listen to learn about the ups and downs of running a business, finding opportunities others did not see (or act on), and achieving lifestyle and professiona...

Aspiring entrepreneurs often have a dream of working on their own that underestimates the amount of work necessary to be successful.  Being your own boss frees your schedule and instructions, but not the effort and diligence required to make sure your business is operating as you expect.  This episode reminds wantrepreneurs that the lifestyle dream is possible only after the work is done.  While t...

Are you worried that the loud, aggressive, extroverted entrepreneurs you have seen are the correct personality type for the business world?  And you, who may be shy, introverted, methodical, and detailed-oriented, do not have what it takes to make it in the entrepreneurial world?  This episode focuses on the real skill for an entrepreneur - the ability to do the work - and explains why having the...

What do you need to do to make yourself - ready - to be an entrepreneur?  In this milestone 50th episode, Case Lane discusses how to understand your value as an entrepreneur in the global marketplace, prepare yourself to persevere through difficult times, and study and learn from successful entrepreneurs.  These activities can help you prepare to run your own business, be your own boss, and achiev...

When it comes to being successful, why do some people know what to do and others struggle for no results?  The difference is information.  Some people know they need information, and if they don't have anyone to give it to them, they go out and find it.  In this episode of the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane discusses how to make yourself a privileged aspiring entrepreneur by becoming b...

Aspiring entrepreneurs debating whether or not to spend thousands of dollars on an online course that promises an overnight solution to business success, check out this episode of the Ready Entrepreneur Podcast.  Case Lane provides valuable tips on how to assess the course, uncover "all" the work behind the marketed process, give feedback to course creators, and track the literal and int...

Why is there a disconnect between the global initiatives in support of entrepreneurship, and the ground-level quests of aspiring entrepreneurs who are trying to get started?  In this episode, Case Lane dissects the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) policy framework for entrepreneurship, and reveals how this global multilateral organization supports rising entrepren...

Aspiring entrepreneurs wonder if obtaining an MBA or another form of formal business education is important to running a business.  In this episode, Case Lane provides the short and long answer to that question.  At first, B-school is not the ticket to entrepreneurship, but eventually entrepreneurs want to have a working knowledge of core MBA topics like accounting, finance and marketing.  Why is...

Just when you thought a tropical vacation would be warm sand and colorful drinks, Case Lane takes you on a journey of entrepreneurial discovery.  This episode focuses on how the entrepreneurs, employers and employees on the island of Ambergris Caye in Belize inadvertently provided five useful lessons that aspiring entrepreneurs can apply to their own business.  Case Lane explains how the local app...

How do you overcome money and failure fears when you are thinking about quitting your job to become a full-time entrepreneur?  In this episode of the podcast, Case Lane discusses strategies for preparing to quit that can help alleviate some of the biggest fears.  The approach includes ideas from earning more money and downsizing, to incrementally starting your business to test your idea before goi...

If you are thinking about leaving your 9-to-5 to work full-time in your own business, you will enjoy this interview with creator Susie Sahim, the founder of Paper Demon.  In this extended interview episode of the Ready Entrepreneur Podcast, Case Lane speaks to Susie Sahim about building a business, making the transition to being a full-time entrepreneur, facing challenges, overcoming fear, buildin...

Ready to start working on your business but have no idea what to do first?  Listen to these five tactical tips for making the move to entrepreneurship.  You can start today to make room for an entrepreneurial life by implementing these five first steps.  In this episode of the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane outlines five tactical, straightforward actions you can take immediately.  This is a...

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, how do you decide which books to read?  Aspiring entrepreneurs can read to learn how to start a business, build wealth and transition to lifestyle freedom.  But which books should be read and why?  In this episode of the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane introduces five categories of books to read: definition of entrepreneur, skills of successful pe...

How should an aspiring entrepreneur view the role of technology in business?  In this 3-part series within the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane explores the "big" technology issues for entrepreneurs.  In Part 1, the focus is on the changes you must be aware of around - privacy, opportunity, accessibility and impact - to better utilize technology in your business.  Using a flashback...

Ideas for aspiring entrepreneurs to take advantage of technology while making the transition to lifestyle freedom.  In this 3-part series within the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane explores the "big" technology issues for entrepreneurs.  In Part 2, Case encourages entrepreneurs to use the same technology advances being applied to their businesses - virtual assistants, outsourcing,...

Questions for aspiring entrepreneurs to consider about the changes technology will make for their business and the economy.  In this 3-part series within the Ready Entrepreneur podcast, Case Lane explores the "big" technology issues for entrepreneurs.  In Part 3, Case asks a variety of questions about where technology is taking us and what the impact will be on businesses and entrepreneu...

How do you become an entrepreneur who can work anywhere in the world?  Start by listening to this discussion with an exciting entrepreneur who is living the travel and work dream.  In this extended interview episode, Case Lane has a conversation with Amy Mitchell, Systems Coach about her journey to entrepreneurship.  From having the vision to become location independent, to testing the waters in B...

How do you start a business from scratch and become an entrepreneur?  For starters, you can copy the path of someone successful, build through trial and error, or buy a program or course as a step-by-step guide.  In this episode of the special Ready Entrepreneur Tour series, Case Lane focuses the fifth stop on the action an aspiring entrepreneur must take to get a business started.  This podcast c...

How do you make the transition to an entrepreneur's lifestyle?  While many aspiring entrepreneurs dream of the freedom and flexibility of being an entrepreneur, you have to remember there are at least two lifestyle interruptions.  One at the beginning to spend more time on building your business, and the other after success, when you transition to your life dream.  In the final episode of the...

How do you define the value you want to deliver to the global marketplace as an entrepreneur?  What are the consumer needs or wants that you think you can fulfill?  In this episode of the special Ready Entrepreneur series, The Ready Entrepreneur Tour, Case Lane discusses the value - the product or service you can deliver as an entrepreneur.  This episode covers how entrepreneur spot value and meet...