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First Steps to Creating Your Startup Company

Posted by bsanders on Jan 8, 2012 in Business | 0 comments

Starting a new company can be daunting at first and without experience and/or special knowledge, it can be very short lived.  There are hundreds of books to help you with a start-up and for the most part, they provide guidelines to what you can do.   But, before you buy a book or jump into your business head first, here are some suggestions to look at. For starters, what is your business going to sell?   Is it a product or service?    If you have an idea, then do research on what is out there already.   If you are selling a widget and there...

Land of Opportunity or Entitlements

Posted by bsanders on Dec 21, 2011 in Political, U.S. Economy | 0 comments

Remember the phrase “Land of Opportunity”?     It’s getting a bashing lately.   Seems the land of the free, home of the braves fundamental belief of opportunity and pursuit of happiness is fading from our grips.   Why is it that our self image and portrayal of self sufficient, sustainable hard working Americans is getting harder to maintain? There is an old expression that defined many administrations and communities of the past: “You should give people a hand up, not a hand out”.     This expression holds...

Travel

Posted by bsanders on Dec 20, 2011 in Quotes | 0 comments

Sometimes the path least traveled is longer, so enjoy the scenery. Brian Sanders 7/2009

Colorado

Posted by bsanders on Dec 19, 2011 in Travel | 0 comments

A trip to Colorado is always nice and on this trip in April of 2011, we landed at the end of the ski season and experienced some extremes of the Rocky Mountain weather.   Slopes were buttoning up and activities like snowmobile riding and hay rides were shutting down.    This time of year has fewer people and of course easy access to the scenic locations.   Coupled with friendly people and beautiful scenery, you can’t go wrong. Here are a handful of pics from the...

Life

Posted by bsanders on Dec 19, 2011 in Quotes | 0 comments

When life’s at a juxtaposition of “what if” and “why not”, there is opportunity for great change – Brian Sanders 6/2009  

Sign of the Time(s)

Posted by bsanders on Dec 18, 2011 in Political, U.S. Economy | 0 comments

Running for Office

Posted by bsanders on Dec 18, 2011 in Humor | 0 comments

Running for public office has its perks – you get your genealogy traced for free.

Dear Abby

Posted by bsanders on Dec 18, 2011 in Humor, Political | 0 comments

DEAR ABBY: ‘I have always wanted to have my family history traced but I can’t afford to spend a lot of money to do it.  Any suggestions?’ Sam in California   DEAR SAM: ‘Register as a Republican and run for public office.’ Abby

What does VOX mean?

Posted by bsanders on Dec 18, 2011 in General | 0 comments

VOX. A google search for VOX returns about 19,600,000. Its contemporary meaning ranges from Voice Transmission to Very Old Transmitters. Vox Vocis is latin for voice, but for what I am using on this site, I have a few variations.  Here, Vox is primarily intended to mean “voice”, but at another level, I am using it as an gradation of acronyms: Verbally Objective Xpression(s) Verbally Objectionable Xpression(s) Verbally Offensive Xpression(s) Visually Objective Xpressions(s) Visually Objectionable Xpression(s) Visually Offensive...

Stock Market and Balance

Posted by bsanders on Dec 17, 2011 in U.S. Markets | 0 comments

I have just about had it with the stock market.  Mer-Kozy and the plethora of EU/ECB rumors is whipsawing the single investor like a sheet in a hurricane.      Almost every week there is a different credit rating agency downgrading another country.    The dollars sinks, the Vix goes up, gold is confused, and what happened to the bond market??     How can anyone make money in a market that is so frenetically fickle and dysfunctional? Easy!   Become an entrepreneur.   Find something you love to do and turn that into a viable business.    Become...