Jane Chin, Ph.D.

Kiva for U.S. Small Businesses?

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kiva is now expanding its microlending to small businesses in the United States. As a small business owner, I should be enthusiastic about this, right? Well… not quite. I hate being a pessimist about this model, but the reality of our culture or social consciousness made me immediately ask [...]

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Loans for Self Reliance and Breaking Barriers

I’ve heard of Kiva some time ago, but it wasn’t until last year in July 2009 that I made my first loan. I looked around the Kiva site and read through stories from people all over the world who are flexing their entrepreneurial muscles regardless of what conditions they live in, to support their children [...]

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If You Want to Work a 4-Hour Work Week…

If you are one of those people who are here looking for ways to work a 4-hour work week… THEN YOU’RE IN THE WRONG PLACE! (Whew… I wanted to say that for a LONG time!) I have not found someone to take me where I am and need to be (a mom first, and world [...]

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Interview of Jane Chin on Microbusiness Entrepreneuring as Personal Development

My fellow microbusiness entrepreneur Dawn Rivers Baker has been a long time advocate in the area of microbusiness enterprises here in the United States. Recently we had an opportunity to talk about an aspect of microbusiness entrepreneurship that many of us rely on but can probably reflect more often on: the mental game of business. [...]

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No One Cares About Your Personal Brand!

We live in a society where status has become everything, and image has leveraging value. We are constantly bombarded with “branding”, especially “personal branding”. “You, Inc.! A Brand Called You! Brand Yourself! Inc. Yourself!” It’s no surprise, then, that too many of us are concerned about how we “look” to other people, more than who [...]

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Freedom: Selfishness v. Self Actualization

Jason Eke at Micro Magnate has been reading my business articles for some time and invited me to join his network. Since I recently authored, Want to be Free? First Define Your Freedom, one of the first discussion questions I posed after signing up is: What is Your “Freedom”? Jason’s response inspired me to write [...]

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Small Business Entrepreneurs: 5 Things to do when you feel lost

I don’t know about you, but I often feel isolated as a small business entrepreneur. Sure, I have hundreds of contacts on LinkedIn and Facebook. Apparently more than 1200 people find me interesting enough to follow on Twitter (give or take a few spambots and p0rnbots). But this isn’t the same as connecting with people [...]

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