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After seeing the film Rocky Balboa in December, I wrote a blog post for SmallBizResource about the lessons for small business, which was published in early January. Because CMP and Forbes have a content-sharing agreement, the post was republished on the Forbes Entrepreneurs page.

From that, I received an inquiry from a reporter from Diário Económico business newspaper in Portugal. I answered several questions about the article and my own business, and on Feb. 8th the article was published in the paper (image to right).

If you're in Portugal, you can download the article by paying 1 euro via SMS mobile payment, but otherwise you can read one of the English versions (SmallBizResource or Forbes) for free.

There's a sidebar about me ("Agora, a sério, façam assim"), which translates through BabelFish as follows:

Now, the serious one, makes thus

For besides writing as ` to freelancer ' for some publications, Ivan Schneider constructs ` comconteúdos websites ' of management emotores of ` e-commerce '. It believes that the niches demercado are the future and that the communication saw InterNet will have a basic paper in these businesses, that open great chances for the small companies. So far, it is not repented of nothing in its passage of liberal professional e, in its in case that, cliché "I only have penalty not to have started more early" is not applied. Em1998 could have started its proper business, after the MBA, but it preferred to go to work as journalist for the Bank Systems & Technology. During five years it interviewed the entrepreneurs most innovative, gurus of the area of information technologies and of the board. "If some of this exposiçãome infected, must be in excellent form", ironiza. E leaves some serious advice for who thinks to initiate its proper business: they read the book "Bootstrapper's Bible: Howto Start and Build the Business with the Great Idea and (Almost) No Money "of Seth Godin (as to construct to a business comuma almost great ideia and without money) and that they are asked if they are entrepreneurs or ` freelancers '. It is possible to have a proper business of both asmaneiras, but it has a great difference to emtermos of attitude, chance and planning.

Patrícia Cascao, the author of the article, writes: "The article was a great success. The one most read ever, in the management pages of Diário Económico."

Fantástico!!