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When you're small, there is so much to celebrate. When you're small, you're capable of handcrafted experiences, thoughtful details and careful outcomes.

The greatest compliment we can hope for as entrepreneurs is to find out what we've built actually means something, that what we're doing matters. A few days ago, a Fizzle member wrote a post in the forums titled "What I really think about Fizzle." When you see a title like that about your work, you can't help but feel a little nervous to read the judgement that follows.

Two weeks ago we first wrote about the launch of our new training platform for online business builders in 5 lessons from a $213,000 launch. Today we have 5 more lessons from our launch to share with you. If you're building an online business or launching a new product, this post is for you.

If you're like me and many other entrepreneurs that I know, your mind never stops coming up with new ideas for your business. (Much to the chagrin of your sleep schedule.) You probably even have a system in place to captures all those ideas no matter where you are. Later, you then go through and decide which ideas are the best, most worth your time, etc.

There's a specific step every entrepreneur needs to take that isn't talked about nearly enough. The news likes to cover the "overnight" success stories like Facebook buying Instagram for a billion dollars or Angry Birds selling millions of copies, but they don't share the key first step that the people who built these stories took.

Have you ever heard someone say something limiting about himself or herself that just sounds ridiculous and shortsighted? "I wish I could get in shape, but I don't have the time."