January 2011 Archive

Texas Startup Brings Fiber-optic Innovations to the Medical World
A Texas-based Ovna Medical joins the fight against cancer and other ailments. The technology company seeks to use fiber-optic technologies developed at the University of Texas at Austin and MD ...
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Naming your startup: Settle down, it’s cool!
By Jason Cohen. Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. This is one of those emotional decisions where it’s not okay ...
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Employer Lawsuits on the Rise — Is Your Company Next?
Recent layoffs and corporate downsizing have led to a 15 percent rise in retaliatory lawsuits brought by disgruntled former employees against their employers whether they have a case or not. ...
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2 Myths and 10 tips for Effective PR
For many small-to-medium sized B2B organizations we work with, we recommend a very targeted PR effort that maximizes limited resources through consistent product and company news, ideally on a bi-monthly ...
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Don’t Let Obstacles Slow The Success of Your Business
Last July, I wrote a post called “What To Do When Your Bank Changes The Rules”.  In the post, I wrote about the shifts in credit lines and how it ...
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5 Tips For Closing 2010 Financial Records
You have keep good books throughout the year. You have meticulously reconciled all your bank and cash accounts each month. Now you are ready to close your ...
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Perryman, Texas, and the Recovery from the Recession
By Sam Lam Dr. M. Ray Perryman, founder and president of The Perryman Group, a Texas-based economic and financial analyst firm, shared his Texas-style humor and insights into our ...
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Financing Not Fundraising: Find Money for Building Capacity
Part 6 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, demonstrates the critical importance of money for building nonprofit capacity and describes how to find it. There must be a recognition ...
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HR Outsourcing: The Cure for Compliance Headaches?
Is your head hurting?  Maybe you’ve been trying to keep up with the dizzying array of amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act and other legislation designed to put more ...
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The Value of Using Business Dashboards
Are you using business dashboards to run your business? Many programs like QuickBooks and Salesforce.com give users the ability to customize dashboard data so management, supervisors, and other operational ...

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Nell Edgington - Social Velocity A Career Guide For a New Generation of Change Makers
Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s new book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community ...
mj-jolda Bagels by the Batch
What’s with all the hype about “Artisan Bagels” by Dunkin' Donuts?  Does anyone even ...
Hall_Martin-150x150 Understanding the deal from the Investor’s perspective
The entrepreneur and the investor both look at the same deal but they come ...
marc nathan Entrepreneur Events: OpenCoffee
Today’s OpenCoffee brought new and familiar faces to CoffeeGroundz.  For the uninitiated, OpenCoffee is ...
Ben Dyer new 1-23-12 It’s Facebook Week…
A few weeks back I wrote a post asking where are the Facebook startup ...
Bryan-Menell Mass Relevance Secures $3.3 Million Series A
Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it ...
Thom-Singer-150x150 Networking Shortcuts for Career Success
There are no shortcuts to career success.  It takes time to building long-term and ...
Nell Edgington - Social Velocity Reader Question: How to Find Major Donors
Last month I launched a new regular series on the blog called Reader Questions. ...
Jamie-Brown The Formula for Making Client Relationships Bloom video
  I work with the best clients. That may sound like "spin" coming from a public ...
Thom Singer Does LinkedIn Matter? video
I was recently the speaker at a business event.  After my talk (about the ...