Month: October 2015

  • Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul — Stefan Doering Interview for TV Show The New Yorkers

    Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul — Stefan Doering Interview for TV Show The New Yorkers

    In 2002 I was nearly killed in an assault on the street. After regaining consciousness from a coma, I had lost 95% of my vision, much of my hearing and almost all of my balance. Doctors announced I might never walk again. When I left the hospital, I decided to set a seemingly impossible goal…

  • BEST Coaches Client Ecologic Solutions Named “Best for the World – Environment Impact 2014”

    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…

  • Entrepreneurs: You are NOT Alone — How to Build A Team Around Yourself

    Entrepreneurs: You are NOT Alone — How to Build A Team Around Yourself

    In early 1940, Winston Churchill was alone in facing Hitler. France surrendered almost immediately, as did most of the rest of Europe. And the Nazis at that time seemed unstoppable. And Churchill knew he was in trouble. Because of his loud anti-Hitler and anti-Nazi speeches and condemnation, he knew it would not be long before…

  • Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene

    Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene

    Entrepreneur magazine compiled a list highlighting thirty movers and shakers of New York City’s startup scene. How many of their startups are green? If you take a look through the list you will find six movers and shakers who are behind green startups. I’d like to give them special attention. Of the “The Hot 30…

  • Which are YOU:  Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner?

    Which are YOU: Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner?

    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…

  • What Are YOU Willing to Fight For?

    Last Monday I was really sweating it out.  The colleagues of my mastermind group, all top entrepreneurs, had me on the grill. I had just finished telling them the UnReasonable goals my two companies were going to achieve in 2011. And they weren’t buying it. One member of our group, Michael Margolis of Get Storied…

  • Pros and Cons to Marketing Your Company as Green

    Late last week I found myself in New Jersey in a deep conversation with a friend, Ron Bergamini, CEO of Action Carting, a waste management company.  Their several hundred employees and 100+ trucks on the streets makes them one of the largest in NYC. The conversation turned to marketing his company and how to promote…

  • #1 Reason Entrepreneurs Fail (And What to Do About It)

    Like most of us, I’ve been consumed by what has been going on with the Qaddafi regime.  Libya is the latest Middle Eastern authoritarian state to be struggling and possibly collapsing. This is no surprise.  Authoritarian states tend not to last. The authoritarian model, where a few people control the fait of many, only lasts…

  • Great at Multitasking? Well, That’s a Bummer!

    These days I’ve been working with a lot of entrepreneurs here in New York.  What has always amazed me was many of them do multiple tasks while in the middle of a conversation with me, their teacher/coach. At first I thought there was something wrong with me for not being good at multitasking myself and…

  • Good VS. Bad Debt

    I was dreading making the call.  I had spent about a month thinking and wondering what to say. In all that time I came up with nothing, and I was out of time. So I dialed. After several rings a man answered.  He did not sound pleasant or in the mood to chat.  Which made…