Category: Entrepreneur
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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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How to Know When to Let It Go?
Walking into that board meeting was one of the hardest things I had to do. Having spent the past six years working over 80 hours a week almost every day of the year, I was exhausted and feeling like a failure. While our company started off on a really great run, it was now losing…
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BEST Coaches Client Ecologic Solutions Named “Best for the World – Environment Impact 2014”
EcoLogic Solutions Inc., a client of BEST Coaches, has been honored with the distinction “Best for the World” for environmental impact list created by B Lab. B Lab honors members of the B Corp (Benefit Corporation) community who have gone above and beyond their pursuit of a positive impact on the environment, their workers, and their…
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How to Leverage Your Company Vision
Last week we managed to raise a large chunk of money for my new company, the Shift Group. Contrary to what many investors and funding experts may say, our company still doesn’t have a MVP (minimal viable product) nor did we get the money from friends and family (typically where the money comes from at…
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8 Steps to Achieving Critical Mass
Early last month my wife and I were enjoying our walk around the park just steps from our new home here in Brooklyn. At one point we stopped and could not help but worry about the local geese, swans and various species of birds that were standing on the frozen pond covered in snow that…