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Saturday, April 08, 2006


This week's featured woman entrepreneur is Jill Blashack, founder and CEO of Tastefully Simple (Alexandra, MN), a company that offers easy-to-prepare gourmet foods for people who like to eat - even if they don't necessarily like to cook.

about Tastefully Simple
Founded in 1995 by Jill Blashack, Tastefully Simple was the first company to market its line through home taste-testing parties hosted by consultants nationwide. The company achieved $110 million in sales last year and was ranked #44 on the 2004 Inc. 500 list - the fourth consecutive year the company has occupied a spot in the top 10% of the list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Tastefully Simple offers more than 30 upscale, easy-to-prepare gourmet foods from appetizers to desserts and everything in between, including the company's top seller, Bountiful Beer Bread MixT. The products are open-and-enjoy or require only one or two ingredients to prepare. Company CEO Jill Blashack was named one of the 25 Top Women Business Builders in the U.S. and Canada by the Women Presidents' Organization and Fast Company magazine in 2005. She has also received the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award for Minnesota and the Dakotas in 2000 and was a finalist in its Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2003.

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1. A lack of clarity and focusing on too many things can paralyze us. Writing down goals, then prioritizing and ordering them accordingly can give us direction and a sense of empowerment.

2. Life's tragedies can also be life's greatest gifts. They can allow you to live more freely, with more intent, and with fewer regrets.

3. Entrepreneurship is not about getting rich; it's about creating something bigger than yourself, something lasting, something effective in this world.

4. Business - and life - is all about choices. We are more in control than we think, and what we are not in control of, we can often let go (and find ourselves better of as a result).

5. One's fears are often more paralyzing than the actuality of those fears. When fear kicks in, we need to ask "what if" to diffuse it. With the fear that remains, we need to assess its value - and then, trust in our intuition and keep on keepin' on.

6. Usually intuition - the innate feeling that something is right - speaks volumes more than all the data and forecasting one (or one's advisors) can accumulate.

7. Naysayers can easily squash our tender dreams. We need to surround ourselves with people who fuel our dreams. Likewise, when we encourage others' dreams, we become more excited about our own dreams.

8. Taking things personally leads to self-defeat and an angry, bitter attitude. The ways of those around us - and the world itself - usually have nothing to do with us personally. It is very freeing and energizing to realize this.

9. Acknowledging someone's value does not make you less valuable. It is not a sign of weakness or an admission of incompetence. Rather, it shows you are tuned in, mature, confident and appreciative.

10. The unexpected can put us into a kind of philosophical chaos that often yields positive growth. The trick is to feel okay with feeling not-okay, while the process works its magic.


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Contact Information:
Jill Blashack
Founder & CEO
Tastefully Simple
www.tastefullysimple.com/
320.763.0695

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