Stories and lessons from the struggle and success of those who have realized their entrepreneurial dreams whether as first timers or veterans.
Beth Noymer Levine, Founder & Principal, SmartMouth Communications You’ve created something really amazing. Everyone wants to know more. The story of your success, how you got there, and what’s next draw entrepreneurial curiosity-seekers and other interested parties like flies to flypaper. So, what do you tell them? What’s your narrative? Do you have your usual […]
Storytelling 2.0: Your Narrative Read More »
The traits that triathletes have and need are basically key contributors to success as a CEO. While triathletes and CEOs come from different backgrounds, range greatly in age and often take completely different approaches to training and working, they are all cut from the same cloth. That’s why there’s an instant camaraderie among us as
Common Idiosyncrasies of CEOs and Triathletes Read More »
Pierre-Jean Cobut, Co-founder, Echo Labs As a foreign-born entrepreneur who set up his company in the US, the one thing I know for sure is that there is no easy way to setup a company for a foreign founder, although having one or more American co-founders can ease the process. The US currently does not
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Annual planning is one of the most important things any CEO and executive team will participate in as another year comes to a close. A good annual plan not only sets the stage for the year ahead, it can also help all of your teams become more focused and aligned to achieve both short- and
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W. Gary Sitton, Author, Fire Up Your Startup and Keep it Up In 2004, I taught a graduate class in the School of Engineering titled “Technical Startups”. There were 17 enrolled students, six of whom were international students. In 2014, I taught the same class with 25 students, twelve of whom were international. Currently in my
The American Entrepreneurial Spirit Read More »
The word “innovation” is such a constant in meetings around the world that it has almost become a contender for “corporate buzzword bingo.” Although it is often over-used it is not always well understood in terms of how it should be implemented into organizational culture, or even how it might be best used as a
Innovation is Actually Category Leadership Read More »
William Vanderbloemen, President/CEO, Vanderbloemen Search Group In March of 2010, I left my job, my wife and I put our life savings on the table, and we started a business. We were committed to building it from scratch – debt-free and with no venture capital. Our new business – a search firm serving churches –
5 Business Truths I Wish Someone Told Me 5 Years Ago Read More »
Richard Hollis, Founder & CEO, Holonis Inc. “The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Albert Einstein In today’s age of technology and the Internet, it is no longer enough to
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~~I was recently asked a common question during a Q&A. “What is a brand?” Believe it or not, I get asked this question all the time, simply because the word “brand” carries with it many different definitions. Depending on what one does for a living, what they’ve heard, what they’ve learned, or how they perceive
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Brent Schafer, CEO & Founder, Vuevent My business partner, Jimmy Derocher, and I met at my freshman year of college at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA and instantly became great friends. Jimmy was a computer science and mathematical economics major. I was a business major, with experience with start-ups and three international internships. We had
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