Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I amaze myself every so often, and that's both fun & magical. Then again, sometimes...
We're back up to 21 members. I like this. I still don't know why we lost that member, and may never, but I'm not a happy loser, especially when I...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I got a notice from Fast Company that they removed one of our group's members "for activity deemed...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. We're at 21 members now. The winning number in blackjack.. An excellent number in the...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I was listening to NPR a couple of mornings ago and heard a story about a man challenging the incumbent for...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Recently, I was hit with that old garbage about "one person can't make a difference". Few -isms irritate me as much...
Recently, I was discussing the perennial problem minorities have with finding startup funding with a Caucasian "successful...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello, my relatives. We are now 13 of us. In the Traditional ITI Way, 13 is an important number because it is the number of...
Francisco couldn't get this to re-post here, so gave me permission to do it. For me, this is one of those...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Recently, I was speaking to a group of non-Indns about micro-business and there was a heckler who said, "You have a lot...
I'm always stunned when people climb on a wagon I'm already on. Not because I lack confidence in myself or have a low level of self-worth, but...
It is entirely possible to be too small to meet the demand for whatever a given small business produces, and therefore too small to be able to get...
Some time back, someone asked me why we at Indian Maid want to stay a small business, rather than try to take over the markets for our products. ...
The symbol we call '8' is also the mathemtatical symbol for infinity. In the Traditional ITI way of looking at things, the symbol for infinity is...
Hanh mitakuyapi. In the way of my People and many other ITI, 7 is a holy number. When we pray, we address 7 Directions - The Four Directions of...
Hanh mitakuyapi. Recently, I was helping some people apply for a startup loan for a micro-business when one of the bureaucrats asked me about the...
Hanh mitakyapi. Every so often, someone asks a question that seems really off in left field on the surface, but actually begs for a considered...
Hanh mitakuyapi. I tried to post this yesterday but it wouldn't go, so here it is today. On June 25, 1876, a thug named George...
Hanh mitakuyapi. I'm going to make a confession at the start of this post. Actually, it's a multi-aspect confession. I call these...
Of recent years, it seems you don't have a chance to establish yourself in business unless you have a lot of family...
When I started my first business, I was five years old. Five. I could read and write (not print) by the time I was four. I learned to...
The objective of a minority micro-business incubator is support and growth of successful minority micro-businesses resulting in decreased welfare,...
In the Lakota Way, if a person has an ability, s/he has a responsibility to use it to help others, and in so doing, increase the prosperity of all....
Dedicated to the proposition that it is better to help someone start a micro-business than to orient them to 'finding a job' or facing welfare. Even...