High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Career Mistakes You Should Make by 30

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 4 Career Mistakes You Should Make by 30: "But making some missteps and mistakes early on in your career is actually a critical part of growing -- both professionally and personally."
• The Best Way to Learn: "Learning is best done by people acquiring ideas from various sources, running experiments in their context, and then sharing their insights with their peers."
• Building a Better Company Culture in 5 Steps: "While you don’t want your employees failing 100 percent of the time, taking away the fear of failure can free up employees to not just win but win bigger than they ever would have had they been afraid to fail."
• Strategies for Dual-Income Families: "Lots of parents with big jobs work what’s called a 'split shift.' They leave work at a reasonable hour, spend the evenings with family, and then do more work at night after the kids go to bed."
• Do These 4 Things to Avoid Losing Your Mind as an Entrepreneur: "But in the end, listen to your gut. Create the business you want, on your terms and in your time. You’ll reap far greater rewards than revenue."

5 Great Resources for an Entrepreneur

Last week we wrote about some initial steps to entrepreneurship. Today we'll share some great resources to assist you in starting your own business.

5 great resources for an entrepreneur:

1. U.S. Small Business Administration: Offers loans, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.

2. Entrepreneur magazine: Articles and videos for starting and running your own business.

3. The Entrepreneurs: A podcast produced by Monocle bringing a "weekly tour of the most inspiring people, companies and ideas in global business, whether they are starting from scratch, reinvigorating the family firm or developing new technology."

4. The $100 MBA: A free online business course to "show you how to create something YOU KNOW your customers REALLY want."

4. Fast Company: The magazine and web site seeks to "inspire readers and users to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations, and create the future of business."

And as a bonus, Evan Carmichael shares 5 resources to be a great entrepreneur in this video.

4 Initial Steps to Entrepreneurship

Many people have daydreams of walking into their bosses office and quitting on the spot, usually after winning the lottery or receiving a large inheritance.

For some people the dream involves starting their own business. If that describes you and you've been dreaming about becoming an entrepreneur here are four initial steps you can take toward entrepreneurship.

1. Find your (money-making) passion and strengths. What do you love to do? Play video games? Will anyone pay you to play video games all day? Unlikely. So, you need to pair your passion with a service or product that people want or need. You also need to consider your strengths. A passion for baseball is great but if you don't have elite talent you'll never make it to the major leagues. The same idea applies here. You can certainly learn some things but you'll want to build on the strengths you already have.

2. Seek out a mentor. Find someone who is successful at what you want to do and ask him or her to
mentor you. Start by taking your mentor out for a coffee and asking about a few things you need to know in order to make a new business succeed. Ask to meet regularly as you work through the process.

3. Save money. Not only will you need funding to start your business but you'll also want to ensure that you have some money saved up to enable you to live on while your business is in its infancy. It will likely take some time before your new business is bringing in a steady income to live on.

4. Start on the side. A good way to ease into a new venture is to start part-time while you have the security of a full-time job. Dedicate 10-20 hours per week to developing and testing out your concept before leaving your job and starting the new business.

There are many great resources to help you become an entrepreneur and we'll discuss some of these next week.