Author: admin
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Top Five Tips for Winning a Pitch Contest
By last Friday afternoon I was getting giddy. I had just spent the past three and a half days, working over July 4th, to review hundreds of business pitches from around the country. Earlier in the week I was asked to be a judge for a major contest that ended up going viral and the…
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Your Customers Not Getting It?
I was at the top of the world. I just was written up in the New York Times front page of the Metro section (today’s NY/Region), was covered on dozens of TV programs, in newspapers and magazines around the world and had many more wanting to cover the business. I was 29 years old and…
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Entrepreneurs Solving World’s Challenges
The room was filled with a tension so thick that movement came in quakes. Ten companies were ready to stand: 13 modules complete, six weeks in the making, self-vetted and prepared with only five minutes to present. About 80 investors, lawyers and guests had come to listen to the final ten showcase their businesses at…
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How’s YOUR Competition?
My jaw dropped and my fear kicked into overdrive along with my embarrassment. After all, something like that never happens to someone like me: 30+ years running businesses and teaching many others how. Yeah, right! Here I am in front of my team a few weeks ago with serious egg on my face. I was…
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How Anger is Good For Business
Tuesday I was walking around my ravished Brooklyn looking at what Hurricane Sandy had left behind. While my house was about 100feet from the mandatory evacuation zone, we were fortunate that the surge of water didn’t quite make it up to our house. Others nearby did not fare as well. Living near the Gowanus Canal,…
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Why should you work with a business coach? 3 Ways to Achieve Results
Over the past decade, I’ve coached over three thousand entrepreneurs in 13 countries. While most have seen great results, some have not worked well at all. This is mainly because not everyone should work with a coach, and some are just not coachable. Coaching works best for those who are committed to improve their “game”,…
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Are You Really Green? How to Tell a Real vs. Fake Green Business
Last week I was at an important event here in New York City for small businesses. And was beaming like a proud parent. Except it wasn’t for my child, but for my brother, Anselm. He was receiving the Green Small Business Award for 2013 from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce for his booming company, Ecologic…
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An Entrepreneur’s Secret to Giving
Last week I was at a friend’s party, where I found myself having a fascinating conversation with his father. This father has a very successful architecture firm here in NYC. His business is booming, while most of his competitors have been struggling and closing all around him. In fact, this very modest man’s firm has…
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Why Making Assumptions is Good!
Tonight working late. Wife came in to say good night. I asked her to sit down and go over The Plan. She rolled her eyes and said, “Stefan it is 1AM, do we really need to do this now?” Five minutes later she was saying, “Wow, that is really cool. You’ve made it so tangible and…
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Top 8 End-of-Year Momentum Killers to Avoid
In the beginning of my coaching business I was making a crucial mistake. And it took years before I noticed the pattern. I used to tell myself, “I’m going to work my butt off the first 11 months of the year, and then take December off and travel.” Cool… when you have a business that is rocking…