One of the better reasons to have friends is that they are the ones who will tell you when you have spinach in your teeth or check to see if you are still alive if you haven't posted anything to your blog in a while.  Today I experienced the latter.  Then I went and looked at the CubeSpace blog and that was when I realized that somehow, without my permission, two weeks had passed since my last posting.  I have all sorts of good excuses, but I will not bore you with the full litany.  Instead I will focus on why microbusinesses need friends.  Badly.

 I have a short list of people I go to when I am feeling stymied by a problem.  I have the one whose advice I seek when I get stuck on a staff professional development issue.  I have the one who I ask about financial decisions and I have the one I go to when I get overwhelmed and just need to be reminded that I am a capable and competent person, and that this too shall pass.  

I have spent many years meeting and cultivating my support system, but what is a new business owner to do?  Well, my best answer is check out CubeSpace's Entrepeneurial Series.   I have put together a collection of resources designed specifically for those business folks who have questions, but no one to help them work out the answers.  As much as we try (and believe me, I have), we are incapabale of being good at everything.  That is why it is so important to build a community of resources to help us out.  This series is designed to help business owners begin the community building process.  

And in return for setting this series up, I am asking for your help.  Please let me know what problems got solved and relationships were built through the series.  Please also let me know is something is missing.  I can't do this alone and neither can you.  But let's see what we can do when we work with our community.