Perhaps the first step is to do some research and find out what treatment is available for someone you care about.

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The first step to becoming an entrepreneur is deciding that you are going to do something, but to actually become an entrepreneur you must have the strength to tirelessly execute your idea one day at a time, day after day, for as long as it takes.

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And so the best thing to do is to keep pro-growth economic policies in place as the first step to making sure we're the most powerful economy in the world, and I think that means keeping those taxes low.

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But they say the first step is to admit there is a problem, which I now do very openly. (What better platform than Forbes.com?) I am still working on figuring out the second step, but I will definitely let you know when I get there.

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The first thing you do is build a realistic step-by-step program to build up your endurance based on your starting point.

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The first step is to find local deals by combing through lists from local tech blogs, CrunchBase, and VentureSource, and to do research on people through Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.

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