article thumbnail

Life Is Not a Movie

Success

Roger Ebert’s cancer diagnosis Since about 2006, not that he was counting, Ebert had been unable to eat or speak. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors. It was an act of Ebert.

Medical 261
article thumbnail

How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

Success

By 2006 when we completed the buyout, he started another company that suited his interests and style, and Taylor Studios had grown into something that suited me more than it did him. My best friend and neighbor opened a boutique with me in 2002, and for most of the nine years we owned it, it was fabulous.

UPS 260
article thumbnail

Product/Program Promotion Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned Expert Interview

Stephanie LH Calahan

The biggest challenge I faced was with my prior business in the wholesale gift industry. From 2002 - 2006 she co-owned and built the largest Long Island, NY. .   As a business owner, what is one of the biggest challenges you have faced and what did you do about it? Any big lessons learned? Associates.

Promotion 100