July 2011 Archive

Thom Singer
The Conference Speaker as an Artist
Being in Milan to gaze upon Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper" is much different than looking at a print of dogs playing poker. Watching a play in the ...
The New Art of Forecasting
    Many early-stage investors now pay little attention to financial models and just try to form their own conclusions about “use cases.” Will anyone find a reason to use the ...
ken erickson
Healthcare competition happens at the wrong level
In most sectors of the economy, market competition consistently improves quality while reducing costs. Healthcare seems to be an exception. But it’s not because competition couldn’t work, it’s because it’s ...
john doyle
Interim Staffing: The Smart Way to Face Transitions
A previous post on this site mentioned a new trend in corporate hiring -- the short-term “wait and see approach.” During the economic downtown of the past few years, an ...
Thom Singer
Park N Fly Houston Airport – Customer Service Failure
Too often we all encounter employees at companies who are not empowered to correct a situation.  If something is not part of the regular procedure then they have no ideas.... ...
Bob Villhard
I-FORD: IP Found on the Road Dead
“What we’re doing is obvious. What's patentable about it?” This question marks the end of the IP road for many entrepreneurs. As a result, many entrepreneurs walk away ...
Jeff lujan
Digital Harmony Games Lets Everyone Play Together
Austin-based company facilitates social gaming on a global scale [caption id="attachment_3307" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="CTO Hoan Vu (whiteboard) and CEO Jeffrey Lujan of Digital Harmony Games"][/caption] Jeff Lujan and his friends first saw ...
Matt Scherer
Would I gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today?????
The folks at Ruby Tuesday have come up with a promotion that Wimpy, the lovable hamburger connoisseur, would truly love. But there’s a catch….. You have to like Ruby Tuesday on Facebook. ...
Matt Scherer
Outsourcing payroll proves beneficial to small business owners
Owning a business can be a financial and personally rewarding experience. As with every entrepreneurial endeavor, the positive aspects of running your own business are tempered with the other requirements ...
ati
GameSalad Graduates From the Austin Technology Incubator
The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a unit of the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin (UT), congratulates web and mobile game platform GameSalad on its graduation from ...

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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 ...