Tag: startups

A Bull Market in PR

The World Cup is on. I sat and watched a game on the weekend with my son. “Dad, that guy completely faked that fall. Couldn’t the ref see that?” My son, who watches precious little television noticed immediately how many of the players were pretending to be hurt at the

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These 7 Traits Make For Great Entrepreneurs

There is a scene in the movie “Madagascar”… Skipper: “We’ll fix it.” Alex: “How are you gonna fix this?” Skipper: “Grit, spit and a whole lot of duct tape.” This attitude epitomizes one of the traits we look for in founders. Great businesses are not dumb luck, they’re usually the

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3 Key Ways to Expand Your Business

Today we’re hearing from our friend Chris Steely at GPS Business Group.  Chris Tell and I are making our way back from our Meet Up in Sri Lanka. We’ll have more on that next week… GPS Business Group was established in 2005 as a comprehensive business training and leadership effectiveness

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It’s So Simple and Yet…

I have, for the past several weeks, had the occasion to purchase some outdoor plants for a landscaping job I am having done. In some cases a visit to a general retailer has been sufficient for my needs, but there are a number of less common plants that required a

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Working In the Business and Not On the Business

By: Gordon McWilliam There are consequences… In 1986 Michael Gerber wrote about the need for business owners to “Work on their business, not in their business” if they wanted to be successful. How right he was. Over the years Chris Steely and I have worked with hundreds of businesses and

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9 Reasons We Passed on This Deal

Ideas…like grains of sand on the beach. I’ve mentioned this before in my post “8 Reasons Not to Sign an NDA” and it bears repeating. Unless you have a proprietary product involving intellectual property, a scientific process or something which is entirely unique and therefore valuable, you are immediately devaluing

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A Revolution in Agriculture – Part II

Today we’re back with Nate Storey, PhD. Nate’s company Bright Agrotech is revolutionizing food production by creating innovative new ways to grow food “vertically”. Nate and his team are the real deal, so read on and learn a bit more about how you can add a bit of food security

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A Revolution in Agriculture – Part I

If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week you know that the we like agriculture. The world has structural issues with the food supply which won’t disappear soon. The age of farmers is ticking ever-higher, with average ages in the United States, Great Britain and Canada approaching 60,

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