I’ve been very busy lately, and consequently lagging on my writing. I have several drafts that are taking more time to come together than anticipated. That being said, a distraction for me is staying current on some great conversations around entrepreneurs. This post came across my desk, and I thought it should be shared. Maria [...]
I saw this great post on the blog called Conversation Agent – “7 Keys to Social Branding”. The post struck me because I thought it full of common sense. Not everyone understands or appreciates social branding or social media, but what the author, Tamsen McMahon, talks about is helping the customer understand your company, and this could [...]
KISS plays an important role (Keep It Simple Stupid)
You do not need many slides and they should be to the point. These slides will probably not fall into place but result from a lot of sweat and tears to get them down to their core message. This may be challenging as everyone is excited about [...]
Economic signals are telling us that the worse is over and we are pulling out of the recession. Before we forget the pain, I’m curious if there was any lessons learned that we’ll take with us as the economy starts to prosper?
Make those critical connections – Get to know the people now that can help [...]
I’ve long bitten my tongue when I see entrepreneurs outsourcing the writing of their business plan because they are speaking with (insert as appropriate) the VCs, the bank, other investors in two weeks, but no more. I have some things I must get off my chest. This document – a business plan – is [...]
Last night, I attended the CTO (Clean Tech Open) event on Smart Grids at NetAps in Sunnyvale, California. Here are some of the comments shared by those attending.
Warren Jenson, Chief Financial Officer, Silver Spring Networks delivered the keynote remarks and offered a thoughtful, measured commentary.
Expert Panelists Include:
Eric Wesoff, Greentech Media (Moderator)
Steve Vassallo, Venture Partner, Foundation [...]
From the July 2009 issue of FastCompany Magazine came Adam Werbach’s list of Nature’s 10 Simple Rules for Business. I thought they were worth repeating.
From the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that businesses can apply so they become as hardy and long lasting as a forest. Nature, after all, has [...]
A recent post by Seth Godin complaining (very insightfully) about dashboards got me thinking because so much of what I do involves helping clients understand their performance, and lot of times that means developing dashboards. A typical scenario is that they want this tool to be the Mazerati of tracking, so they want every conceivable [...]
I grew up in the Midwest, tornado country and we always had a plan, at school we trained by getting in the hall way, moving away from windows and making ourselves as small as possible. At home we knew where the candles, and emergency supplies were kept and the safest room in the house. Living [...]
The Small Business Administration (SBA) just released their report to the President on the state of the small business economy -
Topics include, in no specific order:
employer firms and employment by firm size and industry
business turnover by State and select territories
macroeconomic indicators
common stock IPO offerings
link between internal finance and small firm growth
disbursement of capital pool in [...]
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