June 2011 Archive

A Call to Arms for the Nonprofit Sector
Mario Morino’s new book, Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity, is probably misnamed. It is not the boring, theoretical guide to evaluation, measurement and logic ...
Five thoughts on the Launch
    There is a plethora of programs and conferences around the country incorporating the word “launch." I happen to be engaged in or advising several start-ups that are wrestling with that issue at ...
More Than Working Capital Series: Perseverance
This post is a part of our blog series called “More Than Working Capital.” We know it takes more than working capital for a business to be successful, and we ...
Bob Villhard
Patent Tsunami Watch: The America Invents Act
Passage of the America Invents Act could trigger a tsunami of provisional patent applications. Unfortunately, it will be Fortune 500® leviathans unleashing the flood rather than emerging tech-companies. Put bluntly, ...
Ed Stillman
If I know what you stand for, I know what you won’t stand for.
What really matters to you, is it your internal or external culture? When do you and your management team take time to focus on the future? Are you focusing the ...
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Open Angel Group Model — The Benefits
I recently posted in the Austin Business Journal about the rise of the open angel group model. In our most recent Texas Entrepreneur Network Funding Forum in Austin on June ...
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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)
  by Jason Cohen. In Part 1 I explained how it’s senseless for small companies to compute “one correct value” for the company, but rather that buyers and sellers must be considered ...
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100% Of Those Who Give Up During A Job Search Do Not Find Jobs
I have a friend who has been unemployed for over three years.  He is a good man who had a series of events derail his personal and professional life.  After ...
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10 Ways to Simplify Employee Benefits: Bonus Strategy #11 – A New Alternative for First-time Groups
As health insurance costs continue to skyrocket, small business owners find it harder and harder to offer coverage to their employees. The Texas Legislature has recognized that healthier employees build ...
Matt Scherer
Hidden fees for the virtual wallet?
If you believe the hype from Google, the old leather wallet will soon become obsolete. First Data, the merchant processing service, behind the partnership with Google wants you to believe that they ...

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Departments

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 ...