Archive for July, 2008

VLOG 4 from Toilet Paper on Vimeo. Subscribe to Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Blog and you too can get this crap delivered right to your bathroom (or where ever you use your laptop)!  Read more »

By the time we graduate from college, we’ve already seen more boring lectures, more killjoy presentations, and more life-sucking, five-hour speeches than any one person should EVER see. So why, when it’s time to give their first talk, do so many people engage in the same drool-inducing behavior?  Read more »

College is a time for learning, living, experimenting, starting a business, and having fun. Yes, I said starting a business. Although the other things are all good, starting a business while in college is probably one of the most important choices can make in your 4 or 5 year college career…or maybe even 6 for the slower ones out there! As a student, you get used to a few different things: not having a bunch of money to throw around, eating as cheaply as possible, living in cramped quarters, and making what you have work. So, I hope that sounds like the perfect time to you to open a business – because it is!  Read more »

Here's my video on a Penny Saved!  Read more »

As useless as they may seem, your success hinges on pennies. Pennies are the bottom line of your business, and if you don’t got ‘em, you’re sunk. Most wannabes focus on the top line, the magical millions that may as well be Monopoly money for all you can do with it. They rarely consider the true cost of doing business – the product, payroll, insurance, taxes, taxes, and taxes.  Read more »

The mind of an entrepreneur is a physical anomaly. It works in ways that are far different than the vast majority of people in the world. But it is the mind of the entrepreneur that makes our economy tick. And though sometimes it may be hard to see underneath all the international conglomerates and multinational corporations, the entrepreneurs among us have always made our society great.  Read more »

My vlog on stopping those unnecessary emails, which I call dingleberries.  Read more »

First off, let me explain to the uninitiated exactly what a dingleberry is, and no, he’s not the weird guy who waits for the bus wearing black socks with sandals and likes to talk about his pet iguana. According to the illustrious source, UrbanDictionary.com, a dingleberry is “a delinquent partial turd, which grasps anal shrubbery causing brownish crust to accumulate in ones boxers.” Juicy.  Read more »

Mike's first Vlog for The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Wanting is for weaklings, and hoping is for the hopeless.  Read more »

Sportscasters are dolts. Either that or they need some new material. Almost every time a team – any team – wins a big game, someone in the glorified peanut gallery will say, “They wanted it more,” as if desperation is the key to success. Wrong, SO wrong.  Read more »

If you followed my blog at Obsidian Launch, I welcome you back, and warn you to be prepared for more of me. If you are brand new, welcome to the TPE (that's short for Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, if you couldn't guess) Blog. There will be a new post here at the beginning of every week. And sporadic stuff thrown in between. I promise you will either love it or hate it, but no matter what it will be entrepreneurialism done the TPE way!  Read more »