Month: October 2015
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10 Steps For UnReasonable Success: Step 2
10 Steps For UnReasonable Success: Step 2: Make Your Success in Health, Wealth, Romance UnReasonable in just 90 days. I’ll show you how! Each week we will explore a new step! For more on 10 Steps for UnReasonable Success, learn more in Entrepreneur’s Blueprint for Success!
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Top 10 Environmental Problems That Are Also Business Opportunities
One of the most amazing things about the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21st was what it looks like to march with over 310,000 people down Avenue of the Americas in New York City about how fed up we are over how little we are doing about our climate in crisis. While the March…
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How to Have Sales Come to YOU
And I was really dreading looking for what we now needed… and additional $250,000. Around this time, someone, whom I’ll call Phil, telephoned me. Phil was a good friend of one of my investors. I met Phil a year earlier, where he decided not to invest. But as a favor to my investor, he now…
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5 Ways to Avoid Hitting the Wall
I remember half way through building my third company I was feeling the pressure, big time. A few months earlier I finished raising another round of financing. It was quite a bit of money and was supposed to get our product designed and ready to be launched. Except we were not hitting our numbers or…
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How Entrepreneur Training Helps You Succeed in Life
How you do anything, is how you do everything. –Unknown Yep, happened again. It never fails. And while the group may be different, the reaction rarely is. This time it was a great group of about 25 tech startups I was training last month. I insisted they must know their financials, to be successful in…
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New Yorkers: Do You Have a Big Tech Idea? Apply Now to Take It Further at FastTrac TechVenture
I’ve been facilitating FastTracNYC since Bloomberg put it into place in 2009. It’s a free, intensive entrepreneurship education program for residents of NYC. The program is administered by Small Business Services (SBS) in conjunction with Kauffman and SUNY Levin Institute. I wanted to take it one step further. A small team of us pitched FastTrac®…
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Challenging All Entrepreneurs: Never Give Up!
Ever since I was a small child I remember my grandmother being there for me during many of my most challenging moments. From typical childhood stuff like not doing well in school or a girl I had a crush on rejecting me to more intense things later in life like when I took company #2…
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How Can you Adapt to Your Environment?
Helping others achieve an “ah-ha” moment is usually a gratifying experience in my line of work. Let alone 9 people, simultaneously. During a day’s session training a team at a large technology company that works with small businesses, they all of a sudden realized some times they were actually helping their clients be something they…
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Six UnReasonable Steps to Raising Capital
For the past few weeks I’ve been laser-focused on raising a round of capital for my seventh company, the Shift Group. And having done this many times before, I thought I knew what I was doing. That is, until I met up with Andrea Kihlstedt. Andrea has been a fundraiser for non-profits for many years. …
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Quick Guide To Knowing Your Crucial Numbers
Vince Lombardi was considered by many to be one of the best NFL head coaches of all time. The Super Bowl trophy is named after him. And whether you like American football or not, many of his strategies and principles are applied in business today. For example, Lombardi was famous for going into the locker…