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The Dream Stealer I Wish I Had Listened To (Or, How I Lost $30,000 on a Dumb Business Opportunity)

I’ve been in business since I was 12 years old. Worked out a deal with the sales guys down at the Richmond model homes. I’d water all the plants in the model homes each Saturday and they’d pay me $5 cash. Not bad since it only took me an hour. Gradually, I scaled up. Started […]

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Lost in My Own House

With a couple minor exceptions, I did not work last week. I haven’t taken a week off since 2007 when I went to Florida for 10 days with my family. It was definitely good to have some down time… relax the gray cells… and just go with the flow. On the flip side, half the […]

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Ryan Healy’s Social Network

I got more traffic to this web site last month (October 2009) than any other month since I started writing this blog. Part of the reason for this is I have some truly great people in my social network. And they have graciously shared and linked to some of the posts I’ve written in the […]

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Summer in the Rockies

Sorry I haven’t posted any new articles lately. I’ve actually been quite busy with client work… and trying to squeeze in a little vacation time (a rare thing for me). Last weekend, my wife and I went up to Copper Mountain (a ski resort west of Denver) and stayed a whole 3 nights — without […]

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Redundancy in Business

Last week, I started having MAJOR computer problems. I guess it was about time. I’ve got a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop computer running Windows XP. The date this computer was shipped to me was February 28, 2005 — so it’s more than four years old, practically an eon in the world of computing. To sum […]

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