Those four people are the cheerleader, the role model, the expert and the techie. I liked this piece by Rich Mintzer posted yesterday on Entrepreneur.com. Good stuff. Here’s the link: The 4 People Every Business Owner Needs
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June 2008
Imagine yourself in a conference room, presenting your business plan to potential investors. How do you answer the question: “Where’d you get that idea?” This comes to my mind today because of a post I read yesterday on Ask the VC. An e-mailer asked what it means when investors ask that question: Are they looking [...]
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While some people associate business planning narrowly with sales forecasting, or as a means to obtaining investment, it can also be used by companies to assess the impact of changes to the environmental context. This analysis of the future can help inform strategies and tactics in the present, which help to minimise the likelihood of [...]
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I found the following story on several Internet sites. At New York’s Kennedy airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, and a calculator. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security [...]
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Does email make us more productive? Has the pendulum swung so far that email has become a productivity drain? Good questions, posted yesterday by Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal in Tech Companies Join to Stop Email Addiction: How bad a problem is information pollution? A typical office worker checks email more than 50 [...]
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I had a very interesting lunch meeting today with Derek Brandow and Jason Gallic of the YBGroup. That’s also YottaByte Group, and it’s about changing our education system. Ask yourself: What does technology have to do with education? Think of a 15-year-old kid you know. Outside the class, it’s cell phones, IM, SMS, Facebook, and [...]
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Coming to work 3 years ago for Palo Alto Software was quite a change from my previous post of 10 years in corporate America. One of the many refreshing changes: a family friendly company. It is not unusual to see a tot in the office from time to time, stopping in with mom or dad. [...]
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There’s a comment on my post about invention grants from last week, asking for more information about grants. The source site for that was the NCIIA, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, which has some grants for companies and for teachers, too. I may have to rethink grants. I’ve been pretty negative about grants on [...]
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Around the office at Palo Alto, we’ve talked a lot about the Obama campaign, particularly the small-donors fundraising program that radically outperformed the traditional large-donor model followed by the Clinton campaign and could be ushering in a new way of campaigning for national office. Political preferences aside, the Obama team is interesting to me because [...]
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While Palo Alto Software is admittedly pretty focused on software, we do have a few books available. We’ve shared the free ebook, Hurdle: The Book on Business Plans before. But we haven’t yet mentioned our other book, On Target: The Book on Marketing Plans which we have available on DocStoc for people to read for [...]
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