William R. Seagraves, President & Founder, CatchFire Funding No matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey, it’s always smart to have a game plan. Living in the moment is a great mantra, just not if you’re a business owner. In order to get the results you desire, preparation is key – and that includes […]
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Kris Finstad, CEO & Founder, ContentChecked According to a report from National Venture Capital Association, in 2015 the venture capital ecosystem distributed $58.8 billion to startups across the U.S., an increase from $48.3 billion in 2014 and a clear indicator of the continued growth of the entrepreneurial market. However, penetrating the U.S. market is a
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Peter Sheahan & Julie Williamson, Karrikins Group As you look around your industry, your market, and your customer base, are you confident you are creating the most value possible? Are you delivering an experience and a product that solves an important need for your customers? Or have you perhaps let that slip as you’ve perfected
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Dr. Myranda S. Grahek, President, Leadership Worth Following, LLC. Leaders are called upon to make a host of decisions every day. Many decisions are made almost reflexively—based upon accumulated experience, knowledge, and even instinct. Negative impacts most often occur when decisions are delayed or not made at all. Occasionally leaders are faced with highly complex
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Chas Klivans The journey of Yahoo has been sad to watch…because it was preventable. Sometimes our human frailty leads us to get enraptured with our company’s 30,000 feet vision. During the consulting engagement to assist the Saint Joseph of Orange’s Board of Directors with their hospital system’s five year growth plan; we in the suits were
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William Eigner, Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP You’ve done everything you should to interest angel investors in your hot company, but how do you get them to pull the trigger and invest? You already know what it takes to attract investor interest: build a great product for a large market, recruit a great
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Ajay Kapur, CEO & Founder, Moovweb In the coming year, we will continue to see rapid growth of mobile commerce. Here are three predictions that stand in contrast to the prevailing discussions around mobile payments, beacons, geo-targeting, Apple Passbook/Wallet, and native apps. 1. The tail will wag the dog. In-store digital strategies that drive online sales will
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Susan Ford Collins Highly Successful People (HPSs) use their brains more efficiently than others do. Here are three Brain Tips I learned by shadowing HSPs for 20 years and teaching their skills in major corporations. Brain Tip 1: Your brain, like your car, has a GPS When you head out, you must program a destination
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Margot Dorfman, CEO, U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce The rise of female entrepreneurship in America is akin to ‘A Tale of Two Cities.” These two “tales” are the hyped up media headlines about women-owned firms that shout about the great rise in women’s entrepreneurship versus the bottom-line “tale” of reality reflected in trillions of dollars
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Dr Yahya Shakweh A recent Harvard survey, of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries concluded that very few top companies, less than 18%, can be rated very effective at either strategy or execution. Only 8% are very effective at both, while 63% were rated neutral or worse on at least one aspect. According to this survey,
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