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Archive for May 2007

May 23rd, 2007

7 Things You Need to do to Be a Great Panelist

Last week I was at the VLJ (Very Light Jet) and Air Taxi Business Conference and I was on the panel to discuss the systems and infrastructure required to power this emerging marketplace.
My panel was for the most part, productive and balanced. The contribution from each person was almost equal but there were a few […]

By steve -- 4 comments

May 22nd, 2007

Get your entry in for Carnival of Entrepreneurs #23

Now that I have this down, the CoE will have a Sunday 12pm deadline and a Monday morning release.
Submit and make sure you select a topic. They are:

Highlights
Tips, Tricks and To-Dos
Business Insights and Ideas
Inspire Me!
Online Success

I look forward to you entries!!
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By steve -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2007

Business Plan Series: Part 3 - Corporate Overview

Last time we discussed the importance of analyzing the market and setting up the problem(s) that exist so you can address.
Some cases you will want to answer in a shorter format what your company does and the problems it is fixing. This also the time to discuss vision and overall goals. This is what many […]

By steve -- 1 comment

May 21st, 2007

Startup Facebook is enabling a new concept we call “Social Sharing”

In today’s Wall Street Journal, there was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg including a picture of him wearing flip-flops and discussion centered on the announcement that Facebook would allow companies to provide their services on special pages within its popular Web site. Since these companies will be able to link into Facebook users’ networks of […]

By steve -- 1 comment

May 20th, 2007

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs #22

The Carnival of Entrepreneurs is back at Startup Spark for its 22nd edition. Rolling along nicely - every week we get a few new people sending in submissions, which tells me the Carnival continues to extend its reach through the Web. Thank you to everyone that has supported it so far…

My Carnival Highlights

Jimmy Atkinson presents […]

By steve -- 8 comments

May 18th, 2007

Work Life Balance: What is your morning routine?

Last week I discussed your evening routine so would be appropriate to talk about your morning routine.
With all the distractions in today’s world, the morning can some times be the most productive. This is also tied to the importance of keeping a routine to not “blur the edges” and over work yourself.
Some people are early […]

By steve -- 3 comments

May 17th, 2007

Palace revolts at Flickr, Digg and JPG Magazine

As few weeks ago, I guest blogged on Technosailor and discussed my thoughts on what Digg needed to do in order to survive or it would be dead by 2008.
Recently the HD-DVD debacle almost caused a nuclear meltdown on Digg because they decided to take down the post because it they got a warning […]

By steve -- 1 comment

May 16th, 2007

10 Ways to Make your workspace more productive

I was motivated by Anne Zelenka’s article “Redo Your Workspace for Productive Web Working” to evaluate my workspace and since I can’t change the Starbucks I work out of most of the time I focused on the home office.
In a word - depressing. No wonder I escape the house to drink coffee, talk to the […]

By steve -- 8 comments

May 14th, 2007

Business Plan Series: Part 2 - Market Analysis

In my previous post I discussed the basics of framing your plan and how to set it up.
Moving forward, I would like to take more of the startup/entrepreneur/VC type of plan approach and start with the market analysis. This is because if you started with the corporate overview there wouldn’t be a whole lot to […]

By steve -- 1 comment

May 11th, 2007

Work Life Balance: What is your evening routine?

As this is starting to become a regular Friday segment (maybe because the weekend makes me think about having fun) I thought I would talk about something really important to all of us entrepreneurs yet we all get little of …. sleep.
I am a restless sleeper and through various aids am able to have a […]

By steve -- 4 comments