// This is a particularly hard post to write. I’d rather be right than wrong, and I’d rather have the startups I blog about go straight up instead of up and down and backward and around. But the up and down and (I hope) back up again fate of the Trunk Club is something I [...]
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Here’s an interesting idea in prizes for business plan contests: The winner of Princeton’s competition on Friday, May 28, gets a one-hour meeting with Silicon Valley venture capital legend Sequoia Capital, plus two round-trip tickets from the East Coast. That’s in addition to free marketing plan consulting, business planning consulting and legal services. Plus, of [...]
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A few weeks ago, I posted an article on BIG blog mentioning my assignment to interview successful men. Today, Friday, May 29th at 11:00 AM PDT, I will be interviewing Andrew Warner, a young, super star entrepreneur, and Founder of Mixergy.com The interview will run live on the Mixergy site. I surf business sites daily. [...]
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I’ve discovered a controversy over blog comments. Of the many, “helpful tips” I’ve read online for how to be a successful blogger, a common theme emerges. Invite comments. Include your readers. Help them be interactive. Look at any hugely popular blog, let’s use The Sartorialist for example (one of my favorites), and you may see [...]
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As a new blogger, who in all honesty, never read a blog before, I made many classic mistakes. The first few posts on my men’s blog were simply text, as I didn’t yet understand the importance of images. I kept them short and simple, and gave them a catchy male-enticing title like Hot and Bothered [...]
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We’re very excited to welcome Lisa Bruckner as a guest author on the Business in General Blog. As you’ll read below, Lisa is starting a new business as a consultant for the fast growing business The Trunk Club, based in Bend Oregon. We’re looking forward to hearing about Lisa’s journey as she starts and grows [...]
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Sometimes ideas are like recurring dreams. Seth Godin humbly says some of his best work is about labeling things we already know rather than coming up with new things. So I was struck recently by two related ways to explain the same thing: that moment of jumping off. See what you think: Last week I [...]
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(2010 update: I’ve been told very recently that Joanna Van Vleck is no longer running the Trunk Club, and that there may have been problems under the surface that I wasn’t aware of as I wrote this post. It was written in almost a year ago. Tim) This is refreshing: the Trunk Club is booming. [...]
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