Entrepreneur
One Powerful Culture
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
No company better exemplifies the power of a strong corporate culture than Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer acquired by Amazon last November for $1.2 billion. Just over a decade old, its corporate culture is the critical glue that helps this rapidly growing company deliver on its promise [...]
Amway of the Rich
Twitter It!Today I spoke with a friend that told me he just see an entrepreneur we met 5 years ago. This entrepreneur was beginning a company to custom-made dress shirts for the wealthy executives.
So the business idea was to send nice looking girls to visit wealthy individuals to their offices and sell them custom-made dress [...]
5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup
Twitter It!I just read this great article By Michael Fisher and Marty Abbott about the Myths that can kill a Startup… I found great insight and very concise ideas… here are the myths:
Myth #1: Hire Smart People and Let Them Do Their Magic
Truth: Hire Stars and Let Them Do Their Magic [...]
Raising Capital: Equity vs. Debt
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The banks generally still aren’t playing ball, but there are creative solutions allowing small companies to win financing
By Jill Hamburg Coplan
In November 2008, Donn Flipse was forced to close one of his three flower superstores in Florida’s Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Nine months later, Flipse expanded by acquiring the [...]
When Your Business Becomes Your Life
Twitter It!By: The New York Times/ Jennifer Walzer
I recently lost a longtime client, who was also a dear friend and valuable mentor, to prostate cancer. He was 52 years old and left behind his wife and two children. The other day I learned that another good friend was found to have skin cancer that had [...]