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The Power of Leverage
The first time I really got the power of leveraging was when I helped create my very first mastermind group in 2000. A mastermind group is a group of like-minded people that support each other in their major goals (usually) in business. Our group leveraged each of our passions, experience, expertise, support, network of contacts,…
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Thank you and congrats to these Latino Green Biz from Bklyn
Hi! Thank you for the dozens of e-mails from six countries with recommended Latino green businesses from Brooklyn. It shows how you love supporting your fellow entrepreneurs! After screening and speaking with most of the suggestions, seven were recommended and seven were accepted. The following Latino-based green businesses working in Brooklyn have been invited to…
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8 Steps to Achieving the UnReasonable
Bill McKibben is a serious environmental advocate. As a founder of 350.org. he has helped coordinate 15,000 rallies in 191 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ McKibben and 350.org have stepped are now…
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Top 10 Reasons Biz’s Fail and How To Protect Yourself
Top 10 Reasons Biz’s Fail and How To Protect Yourself The other day my phone rang. It was from a woman who was referred to me by a client. The caller, whom I’ll call Suzie, had that familiar sound in her voice that she was about to hit the wall with her two-year-old business. And…
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How YOUR Business Can Bail Us Out Before 2015
Last week I saw a fascinating movie premier, The Age of Stupid. Never mind that it was the first time a movie premier was broadcast live via satellite (from here in New York) around the world on over 550 screens in 45 countries. Or that they had in attendance the likes of Kofi Annan (former…
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Where Change is REALLY Coming From
It is hard not to get wrapped up in the energy from Obama’s 2nd Inauguration this week in D.C. The speeches, promises, hopes, and agendas all around changing where things are today. Yet perhaps our excitement is ill-placed. To hang our hats on one man’s team to make the types of changes many of us…
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Five Steps to Overhauling Your Business
We were sitting in the back of an oversized SUV, zipping to LaGuardia Airport on a warm evening in late May 2008 when Larry pulled out his Blackberry and said, “Stefan, that is a very interesting idea. I’ll set up a telephone meeting between my senior staff and your team to discuss how we can…
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US Chamber: It’s Time You Step Up!
Although the data is the data, there are times when an organization should really take an educated position on a divisive issue such as this. As we’ve seen, the US Chamber of Commerce doesn’t really seem to be representing the largest membership: small businesses. Instead they focus on special interests and revenue-generating activities. As a…
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4 Steps in Getting to “Yes”
A few years ago I was in a real jam. I was in LA at a major event where I was to present on stage that evening to several hundred entrepreneurs. The morning of the event, as I was putting on my suit, I noticed it had a huge stain on it from a drink…
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The 5 Components to Making Your Business “Perfect”
Lately I have been teaching a uniquely green focused FastTrac™ Tech Venture program run by ITAC – New York City’s Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation and created by the Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest organization devoted to entrepreneurship. Our class is full of small start-up and early-stage businesses with state-of-the-art green technology business…