I caught up with Adrienne Cornelsen recently and asked her to reflect on her business InSite which is celebrating its 15th anniversary next month, the lessons she's learned along the way, the takeaways, and insights she'd wish she'd known when she began.

How are you going to change the world, even your little part of the world? Angels play a big game, and if you want to play with them, you have to play a big game too.

You can build a business that people will clamor to buy. It takes know-how and discipline. Here's the info -- you supply the willpower.

Learning how to craft and nurture great customer experiences around your product is critical. The future of your business these days depends on it.

If the business is your own, even the drudgery work -- and there's never a shortage of that -- can be strangely exhilarating. As an entrepreneur, you always have a sense that what you decide and what you do have a direct impact on the business.

It is logical that a lifestyle of self-parenting, living with less and dealing with severe disappointment would yield an adult who is able to handle the often difficult role of building a company.

One of the major challenges facing small business owners is growing their companies -- which are often self-funded -- while keeping costs down.

You've worked hard to create a solid company culture. But without incorporating, and even more importantly, enrolling your employees into this culture, its benefits to the success of your business are moot.

Ever regretted a business decision you made in the heat of the moment? Most of us have. And most of us have felt the urge to yelp with excitement when we win a big success, too. That's your inner animal at work -- literally.

Suit pants are stuffy and awkward and inappropriate for us. They need to be pressed and cleaned and comforted and hung properly at night. Suit pants don't work in the twenty-first century -- what we need are jeans.