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Why is entrepreneurship so hard?  1. It starts with the word itself: It's a really long word to speak and spell. Try it without a spell checker. 2. There are no rules to becoming a successful entrepreneur - who do you really learn from? 3. We hear stories from the really successful entrepreneurs - we begin to think it's easy. 4. Most entrepreneurs fail - since our society doesn't celebrate failures, often we don't learn from these. 5. It requires a lot of things to hit that home run: plan, idea, money, 24/7 work, frugality, time, execution, people, passion, perseverance, timing, marketing, technology, mentor, health, balance, fun and focus. I wish all startup founders and entrepreneurs lots of success in 2014! Rock the boat entrepreneurs!! Connect with me on oGoing

Apple's Innovation Strategy - Learn How Apple Innovates Business Innovation eBook and Report Deployed by 1,000+ innovators worldwide! How did Apple, the #1 innovative company in the world, innovate and create game-changing innovations such as the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad and more? What is Apple's secret recipe for innovation success? What is Apple's Innovation Strategy and Innovation Process? Download these Apple Innovation insights, case study and report, and innovate like Apple... and think like Steve Jobs, the top innovator and CEO of Apple (until 2011). "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will." — Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, Co-Founder and Chairman (1955-2011) Apple innovates through: •  Creativity and Innovation •  Innovation Process •  Innovation in Products •  Innovation i...

Quite often, today's innovators become tomorrow's laggards, and many either die or just stop growing. The real question is: Why? Some of the popular and innovative companies of yesterday such as Hollywood Video, Borders, THQ, KB Toys, Frontier Airlines, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Nortel, Habitat, Polaroid are dead. Some reasons for the eventual demise and the death of innovation at these companies are: 1. Dependence on the familiar - Most companies become over-dependent on existing products for far too long, keep on adding bells and whistles and additional features that current customers keep on asking for, until they realize that these products are now bloated and obsolete. Worse yet, new customers don't want to buy the bloatware, and existing customers are also getting tired of the extra things that are not needed. 2. Change of management structure - Many times, as the company grows, the culture, leadership and management becomes more and more process oriented, and les...