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Letters & Responses

Index of your letters by topic and author

Topic Focus / Author Episode

Critics Internet / Gloria Internet Basics
Mo's / Joseph Mo's

Education College / Thomson       Favorites #1 & #2
          HS / Coyman                 Related episode
      HS / Bonetti             Chocolate Crickets

Help! Internet / Bernadette Staying Power

Indexes Index of Learning Companies

Key Ideas Cash Flow / Gardiner    Many
   Compensation              Many
   Financials / Stickney         Related episode
                   Incubator s / Shamiso
   Podcasts / Gardiner
                         Retirement / Anderson
   Services (Professsional)   Many
     Advertising, Architecture, Animation, Design
   SWOT Analysis / Anderson

Paths & Steps An Idea / Jason
Start Up / Cope

Producers We are all Producers (this page)

Our letters to you

New York Times Launches Small Business Video
based entirely on the Small Business School episodes

Storytelling & Metaphor from Bruce Camber
To Anne Douglas, On the Edge, Aberdeen, Scotland

Favorite letters throughout the years:

On spending hours on this website!
Joanna Reed, Reed's Marine, Lake Chelan, Washington

About leadership. Do you have what it takes?

Meet Keith Grint and many owners. Letter from Alan Preston.

Our open letters... reflections on these days

"Dear Mom" Thoughts on Mother's Day The Family Apron

From: Jay
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:27 AM
To: Bruce
Subject: The web site

Working on a revolutionary software business is a lonely and sometimes daunting task.

I find that I kept turning to a Small Business School for inspiration on a regular basis.

Oddly enough, it's not the high tech organizations that I find the most interesting.

I keep coming back to Ken Done and his comments about creativity and creating an accidental business. I love the clip about putting creativity on a schedule. And I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not "working" but "playing" at software development.

After seeing the piece on Ken Done, I found myself in Sydney and I just had to travel to The Rocks to take a look at his gallery. So, you also promote tourism through your work.

My accountant keeps telling me that I need to eventually take in some revenue to make this a real business. So, I love Hattie's comments during your show about Thomas Keller and the French Laundry that "You can make exactly what you want to make. You just have to find enough people who want to buy exactly what it is you?re making."

I've got to keep a marketing plan on the back burner until the software is ready.

Who would have thought that a software engineer and entrepreneur would find inspiration from a painter and a chef. You find inspiration in odd places indeed.

I think Small Business School is a great bargain at $39 for access to all the episodes and clips.

Jay