17 Business Ideas to Steal and Implement Today
Are you feeling ready to ditch the corporate world to create something useful for a living? If so, you’ll want to check out these business ideas, shared by some of…
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20 Mission-Critical Strategies To Bring Your Idea To Life
You have an idea for a business. Now what? Here at IdeaMensch, we’re officially obsessed with that next phase–the one that involves becoming your own Victor Frankenstein and bringing an…
Meet 20 Mission-Critical Strategies To Bring Your Idea To Life
When Failure is Success
…success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure. — Soichiro Honda Failure is odd. For…
20 Things Worth Changing for the World
If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be? Air travel? Education? The health care system? Think about it for a minute. While it’s kind of…
13 Trends Entrepreneurs Can Be Excited About
New trends for entrepreneurs are cropping up faster than ever before–or maybe we’re just hearing about them more now. Admittedly, some people don’t like trends. If you’re one of these…
A day in the life of Adam Unger
This spring I got a phone call from my good friend and IdeaMensch supporter Jeff Unger. He said that I might be getting an email from his son Adam, a…
12 Mistakes That Can Crush Your Business
A lot of times we learn the hard ways what not to do in business. But sometimes we have the chance to learn from other people’s mistakes, which is arguably…
26 Green Entrepreneurs Who Are Helping Our Environment
From at-home mushroom farms to reusable diapers to bamboo bikes, the ideas of the following green entrepreneurs we interviewed are unexpected, effective and earth-friendly. We’d like to take a minute…
5,000 Miles Into America – Bumps in the Road
We’ve been on the road for about 5,000 miles now. Maybe 6,000 since I accidentally reset our trip meter. Either way, we’ve been to 15 states so it’s about time…
10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Need to Start a Company
Sick of hearing about the many, many things you need to do to build a successful business? Here’s a few unnecessary steps you can cross off your list. Happy reading….
How We Raised $100k on Kickstarter In 3 Weeks
[box type=”alert” icon=”none”]Hey IdeaMensch! My name is Tom Stewart and I’m a product designer based in San Francisco, CA. Two years ago just after I started my business, Mario interviewed…
15 Insights Gained From the Worst Jobs Ever
Have you ever collected pig ovaries? Painted the insides of large, steel vats? Surgically removed femurs from human cadavers? Our interviewees have, and they’ve willingly shared the lessons they learned…