September 2011 Archive

Bob Barker
Stuck? 5 “Non-Urgent” Paths to Growth
In companies who have plateaued, the leader may be absorbed with urgent matters like managing finances and addressing operational issues, while neglecting less urgent but critically important issues. ...
Terry
Terry Hazell Talks about Entrepreneurs & Self Promotion
Entrepreneurs & Self promotion: don’t oversell, but don’t undermine either--by Terry Chase Hazell Self-promotion is an important part of entrepreneurship. The fact is, many early employees, partners, and funders join a ...
Ensligh at Work
ENGLISH @ WORK improves speaking skills of front-line workers
Like so many good ideas, ENGLISH @ WORK was born in 2005 out of a flash of inspiration. Maile Broccoli-Hickey, back then, was a server at Guero's Taco Bar, in South ...
Jamie-Brown
No Visuals? No Problem – How to Save a Video Poor Pitch
Pitches that are short on visuals might just be better suited for newspaper or radio. However, there are ways to salvage your story and land a successful pitch. Here's a few ...
Thom Singer
Seven Questions To Ask Yourself If You Want To Create More Business In The Recession
Are we still in a recession?  People seem to argue all sorts of facts, figures and predictions, but the news is still bleak and the outlook for the short term ...
How Solid Teamwork Makes a Difference
One of our tenets in our “Far West Capital Five” is Team. “We contribute all we have and recognize that together we are more than we are apart.” This year, ...
Joe-zente
Eliminate the Noise – Second in Command Principle
What if you, the CEO of your business, were able to spend 50%, 80% or even more of your time doing what you do best – the things that bring ...
thinkspeed
Thinkspeed Receives Seed Funding From Virgo Capital
Thinkspeed, a leading crowd sourced market research platform for the IT industry, announced it has recently received seed funding from Virgo Capital, a private equity firm for software and technology-enabled ...
Dave Michaels - Tech Ranch Austin
Austin Startup Bazaar – Bring the community together
Last week something unique happened in Austin’s startup history: 30 startups and 50 volunteers actively built their companies together with one another. With all the challenges in the world we face, ...
Thom Singer
Small Businesses Need To Analyze Business Information
Are you gathering your data, analyzing information, and taking the right actions on what you discover? "BI Analytics" has become a growing job sector, and Corporate America is seriously seeking people ...

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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 ...