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Besides profit, what makes your business successful?
13 Aug 2019 • Kenelm Tonkin
An entrepreneurial aspirant asks what makes a business successful apart from profit. Here, Kenelm Tonkin lingers for a moment on the meaning of 'profit', then reveals his hit-list of must-have attributes for a successful business.

3 Golden rules for scaling your business
08 Dec 2018 • Kenelm Tonkin
In this post, Kenelm Tonkin offers 3 Gold Rules For Scaling Your Business.

In defence of entrepreneurial self-reliance
18 Oct 2016 • Kenelm Tonkin
Faced with an audience predisposed to believe jobs are finite, a former trade union star offers another way amidst howls of indignation. Here, Kenelm Tonkin quickly dispatches the opposing arguments.

Young entrepreneurs at the lemonade stand
25 Jun 2015 • Kenelm Tonkin
A whirlwind and accompanying sticky mess is created in the kitchen. In the midst of it all, Kenelm Tonkin reflects on nature, nurture and the nascent entrepreneurial spirit of children at play.

14 Entrepreneurial disciplines
26 Mar 2014 • Kenelm Tonkin
Entrepreneur. It's an easy self-description but famously misunderstood and hard to embody without guidance. Here, Kenelm Tonkin reveals this site's overarching framework by laying-out fourteen entrepreneurial disciplines which must be mastered before one can rightly be called an entrepreneur.

Your amazing, entrepreneurial life
25 Jan 2013 • Kenelm Tonkin
A newcomer to Facebook absorbs the glorious reality of his friends' lives. His appreciation and genuine affection imbues the inspirational prose in which you will undoubtedly see your entrepreneurial self. Enjoy!

Q&A: Entrepreneur's leap of faith not so risky
21 Jan 2013 • Kenelm Tonkin
It's the litmus test for seriousness about entering business life: will you quit your job? A budding part-time entrepreneur needs to take this seismic leap but is a single mother with a mortgage and afraid of the unknown. Kenelm Tonkin shares five preparatory techniques and insights to ease her understandable fears.

Q&A: 7 Tips for writing business plans
05 Jun 2012 • Australian Financial Review
An entrepreneur is approached by one of his investors about out-of-date business plans. The original plan was produced two years ago and needs a complete rework. Kenelm Tonkin offers seven principles for developing business plans with an underlying insight which will surprise.

The 8 Phases to financial independence
11 May 2012 • Kenelm Tonkin
If ever you wondered how people become financially independent, wonder no more. This convenient primer by Kenelm Tonkin steps you through the sources of wealth, best careers, handy tips about measuring your progress, what it's like after you enter business life and solutions to everyday challenges along the way.

Q&A: Out with the doubt
04 Feb 2012 • Australian Financial Review
A habitual procrastinator can't decide whether to enter business life. Kenelm Tonkin describes some common threads in the background of typical entrepreneurs and explains the personality traits which lead them to action.

Q&A: You must be a generalist
22 Oct 2011 • Australian Financial Review
An early-stage business owner struggles with entrepreneurship. Here, Kenelm Tonkin exposes the frequent trap would-be founders make of knowing only one business discipline and understanding nothing of the other 37 necessary for a viable operation.

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