The Best Place to Invest? Other People's Businesses. Really.
An endearing, but dangerous quality of entrepreneurs and small business owners is their propensity to go all-in -- not only pouring all of their lives, hearts and souls into their business, but all of...
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This past week, I had the pleasure and honor to present to John Morris' Woodland Hills, California Vistage Group.For those that don't know it, Vistage is one of the world's largest CEO and business...
View ArticleThis Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco…
Last week, I wrote about the power of business intelligence dashboards.How, for the first time, smaller businesses can harness the power of big data to more efficiently and profitably manage their...
View ArticleTis Better to Have Loved and Lost...
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston ChurchillAt the very heart of entrepreneurship, small business, and investing sits FAILURE. The...
View ArticleChief Executives and Chief Shareholders: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Small business owners normally lead what are the most efficient and effective organizations ever designed by human hands: profit-seeking businesses where the chief executive also happens to be the...
View ArticleFed Easing: Three Winners
The word from the Fed last week that it would continue with its quantitative easing - purchasing approximately $85 billion per month in U.S treasury bond and de facto continuing to expand the country’s...
View ArticleToday’s B2B: It’s Mobile, It’s Personal, It’s Everywhere
This past week, I had the good fortune to attend the thinkB2B conference at Google’s Mountain View headquarters.At it, some of the world's best Internet thinkers and researchers presented on key trends...
View Article"Lucky" Businesses that Sell for a Premium Price
The saddest lament of entrepreneurs and owners of private companies seeking to sell and exit their companies is that they want their businesses to be valued on their future potential, and not its...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial America - NOT Shutdown
Watching the disaster of a process that is the D.C. budget drama, I found myself with a curious reaction.And maybe even a little bit of a selfish one.It was, by golly, how happy I am that I get to work...
View ArticleWhy Angel Invest?
Why am I an angel investor? Well, for starters I have been very fortunate in my life to come from a family of entrepreneurs who deeply understood that the blessings of our way of life depend on our...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Poor Strategy
It is hard not to laugh when I hear tired old refrains like "Nobody reads business plans anymore" or "In the world of lean startups, there is no time for strategic planning."Why do otherwise...
View ArticleIs This A Golden Age of Entrepreneurial Finance?
To read my article from this week’s Entrepreneur Magazine as to whether it is or not and if so why, click here.read more
View ArticleJeff Bezos: Put Down the PowerPoint and Pull Out the Pen!
Jeff Bezos is a great hero and role model for all entrepreneurs that dream of doing something really, really big, and…pulling it off.Like all legendary business leaders, he also has a number of...
View ArticlePlacing Bets When Making Risky Business Decisions
To read Growthink CEO Jay Turo's article from this week’s Entrepreneur Magazine as to how to make the right bets when making risky business decisions, click read more
View ArticleRaising Money in 2014: Resetting the Frame
As has always been the case, most commercial and neighborhood banks only lend against quickly “liquidatable” assets or at a small multiple of historical cash flow.Given that most startups and small...
View ArticleExporting Services: Bursting Opportunities for U.S. Startups and SMEs
Almost completely shrouded in the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the bursting growth in U.S. service exports– increasingly from U.S. startups and small...
View ArticleBrooks, Lengyel, Lombardi, and Wooden
This time of year offers many blessings - one of them being the pageantry of New Year’s Day college football. read more
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What’s up with WhatsApp – Part Deux
Last week, I shared how between 2011 and 2013, Sequoia Capital invested approximately $60 million in WhatsApp – the instant messaging subscription service bought last month by Facebook for $19 billion....
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The Best Place to Invest? Other People's Businesses. Really.
An endearing, but dangerous quality of entrepreneurs and small business owners is their propensity to go all-in -- not only pouring all of their lives, hearts and souls into their business, but all of...
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1st Quarter 2014: Best for Investing in 15 Years
Don’t you just love these booming markets? Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014:Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the...
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