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  • 5 Steps to Raising Capital, Quickly!

    5 Steps to Raising Capital, Quickly!

    Most businesses think they need to raise outside capital, yet don’t understand how to do this. They end up wasting a lot of time and resources to make it happen. Here is how to do it much faster.

  • Failure is Not An Option

    Failure is Not An Option

    On my way to a meeting yesterday here in New York, I was on the subway platform watching a little boy with his mom.  The boy must have been about 1 years old and was spitting distance from walking on his own.  He stands and can waive his hands and yell without falling.  I’m sure…

  • Six Steps To Building Your Dream Team (With Almost Nothing)

    Six Steps To Building Your Dream Team (With Almost Nothing)

    Team building is the first thing experienced investors will look at. Yet most entrepreneurs do not know how to build a team on limited budgets. Here are the six proven steps to take.

  • 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…