All the Saipanpreneurs, activists, farmers and tourists I’ve interviewed over the years for my Saipanpreneur Project column in the Saipan Tribune, plus my complete archive of articles for the Tribune, the Marianas Variety and Guam Business Journal.

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Welcome to Walt’s Saipanpreneur Project

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“The only way to take control of your life, raise your standard of living and move beyond merely surviving is to create your own unique product or service that you offer to increasing numbers of people in exchange for the things of value that you desire. This simple formula applies to countries as well as people. A self-sufficient economy has its own products or services of value to export to the world. Similarly, a self-sufficient individual has something of value to exchange in the global marketplace. That thing of value is based on your natural talent, skill, or interest-in other words, your passion!”–Walt Goodridge, author of Turn Your Passion Into Profit and founder of the Saipanpreneur Project
My name is Walt Goodridge, author of Saipan Living, Doing Business on Saipan,Jamaican on Saipan Saipan NOW as well as founder of many Saipan websites and products (tshirts, mugs, etc.).
The list of articles below were taken from my Saipanpreneur Project column in the Saipan Tribune. I hope you find some valuable information, inspiration and ideas to help you launch and succeed in business within the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. –Walt F.J. Goodridge
The Jamaican on Saipan!

Article Archives

Saipan Tribune Archives
My articles have been appearing weekly in the Saipan Tribune newspaper. Here is a growing archive of THE SAIPANPRENEUR PROJECT, a column by Walt Goodridge designed to encourage entrepreneurial activity on the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) (all articles will open in a new window)

• Tribune Article #1- April 12, 2006: Introduction

• Tribune Article #8- May 31, 2006: What’s My Passion?

• Tribune Article #10- June 14, 2006: God, Money & Me

• Tribune Article #12- June 28, 2006: Your Health=Your Wealth

• Tribune Article #13- July 13, 2006: Your Wow Factor

• Tribune Article #17- August 16, 2006: Change The Game

• Tribune Article #19- August 30, 2006: Setting Your Price

• Tribune Article #20- Sept 13, 2006: 100 Steps 1-10

• Tribune Article #21- Sept 20, 2006: 100 Steps 11-20

• Tribune Article #23- Oct 4, 2006: 100 Steps 21-30

• Tribune Article #27- Nov 1, 2006: 100 Steps–31-34

• Tribune Article #28- Nov 8, 2006: 100 Steps–35-37

• Tribune Article #30- Nov 29, 2006: It’s About Time

• Tribune Article #32- Dec 13, 2006: The Only Real Question

• Tribune Article #34- Dec 27, 2006: Emergency

• Tribune Article #35- Jan 3, 2007: A Change is Gonna Come

• Tribune Article #37- Jan 17, 2007: 100 Steps 38-42

• Tribune Article #38- Jan 24, 2007: 100 Steps 43-45

• Tribune Article #39- Jan 31, 2007: Letter to Jerry

• Tribune Article #40- Feb 7, 2007: 100 Steps 46-50

• Tribune Article #41- Feb 14, 2007: The Power of the Penny

• Tribune Article #42- Feb 21, 2007: Danger!

• Tribune Article #47- Mar 28, 2007: Playing The Wrong Game

• Tribune Article #48- Apr 4, 2007: You Don’t Need Money

• Tribune Article #51- Apr 25, 2007: Selling Survival

• Tribune Article #62- July 11, 2007: Imagine

• Tribune Article #63- July 18, 2007: If You Were Governor

• Tribune Article #64- July 25, 2007: In Search of Assets

• Tribune Article #65- August 1, 2007: Asset Allocation

• Tribune Article #69- August 29, 2007: Why I Trust You

• Tribune Article #81- November 21, 2007: Restless

• Tribune Article #96- March 5, 2008: Parallel Universe

• Tribune Article #97- March 12, 2008: Saipan Living

• Tribune Article #99- March 26, 2008: Anatomy of an Idea

• Tribune Article #102- April 16, 2008: When the Lights Go Out

• Tribune Article #103- April 23, 2008: It’s About Time

• Tribune Article #109- June 4, 2008: The Need to Be Right

• Tribune Article #112- June 25, 2008: 10 Things We Need

• Tribune Article #116- July 23, 2008: Bound to Be

• Tribune Article #118- August 6, 2008: Flatland

• Tribune Article #119- August 13, 2008: Suspended Animation

• Tribune Article #121- August 27, 2008: Fixing Birds

• Tribune Article #123- September 10, 2008:: Why Not?

• Tribune Article #127- October 8, 2008: Fear of Falling

• Tribune Article #128- October 15, 2008: What Happens Next?

• Tribune Article #129- October 22, 2008: Subliminal Persuasion

• Tribune Article #130- October 29, 2008: A Drama called Life

• Tribune Article #133- November 19, 2008: Obamanomics 101

• Tribune Article #144- February 4, 2009: Words for Rashaa

• Tribune Article #146- February 18, 2009: SaveSaipan.com!

• Tribune Article #150- March 18, 2009: The Law of Obligation

• Tribune Article #152- April 1, 2009: How Can I Help?

• Tribune Article #155- April 22, 2009: Quandary

• Tribune Article #157- May 6, 2009: The Easier Game

• Tribune Article #158- May 13, 2009: The Second Power

• Tribune Article #159- May 20, 2009: As Bad as Things May Seem

• Tribune Article #167- July 15, 2009: Switchboard

• Tribune Article #170- August 5, 2009: My To Know List

• Tribune Article #175- Sept 9, 2009: The Load Test

• Tribune Article #181- Oct 21, 2009: The Burden of Things

• Tribune Article #182- Oct 28, 2009: Butterflies Do Fly

• Tribune Article #186- Nov 25, 2009: In Memory Of

• Tribune Article #193- January 13, 2010: Just Because I Am

• Tribune Article #196- February 3, 2010: Beyond the leaf

• Tribune Article #197- February 10, 2010: The invisible game

• Tribune Article #205- April 7, 2010: Give it to yourself

• Tribune Article #208- April 28, 2010: Flipping stones

• Tribune Article #210- May 12, 2010: Selling to the soul

• Tribune Article #211- May 19, 2010: Solving for happiness 1:

• Tribune Article #221- July 29, 2010: The Power of Clarity

• Tribune Article #222- Aug 4, 2010: The power of visualization

• Tribune Article #223- Aug 11, 2010: The power of acceptance

• Tribune Article #224- Aug 18, 2010: The power of focus

• Tribune Article #226- Sept 1, 2010: The power of intuition

• Tribune Article #228- Sept 15, 2010: Out of order

• Tribune Article #229- Sept 23, 2010: In your master’s voice

• Tribune Article #231- Oct 7, 2010: How to be a better writer

• Tribune Article #232- Oct 13, 2010: The worst that can happen

• Tribune Article #234- Oct 27, 2010: Poverty and prosperity

• Tribune Article #238- Nov 17, 2010: Great intentions

• Tribune Article #239- Nov 24, 2010: The Greedy Innkeeper

• Tribune Article #241- Dec 9, 2010: What If?

• Tribune Article #244- Dec 29, 2010: The Tao of Shawshank

After almost a four-year hiatus, I returned to do a few special articles for the Tribune:

• Tribune Article #245- Jan 28, 2014: 90-year-old Battle of Saipan Naval Veteran Returns to Saipan after 71 Years for WWII Pilgrimage


• Tribune Article #247: Chinese Idol Group SNH48 Films Video on Saipan (April 10, 2015)