Archive for April, 2009
Top Ten Reasons to Start a Business Now
1. You will build your business on a foundation of frugality, which will benefit you in the long run. Knowing how to keep costs low is a great lesson to learn in the beginning. 2. Great talent is available in the job market. 3. Customers are looking for value. They want more for less and [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Friday, April 17th, 2009Posted in Top Ten Lists
Tags: Business Tips, Entrepreneur, Recession, Risk, Startup, Vision
The Weekly Media Trainer: Part 5
The Fundamentals: Bridging and Flagging The last two installments of media mastery fundamentals dealt with your interview agenda: how to create one and how to make it compelling to the journalist. First you have your ideas — the message points — and then you craft Grabbers that turn the ideas into soundbites or pull quotes. [...]
Posted by George Merlis on Thursday, April 16th, 2009Posted in 101
Tags: George Merlis, Media, Media Training, News
Entrepreneurs Share Their Story
I found the post below on the Open Forum Blog by Laurel Delaney to be quite inspirational, and I think you will too. Hearing entrepreneurs’ stories is definitely one of our favorite things at Harvard Business Services. Share YOUR STORY with us by emailing it to Carleigh@delawareinc.com. Lots of entrepreneurs get off to a rocky [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Posted in Articles of Interest, Your Story
Tags: Articles of Interest, Craft Your Story
101: Preferred Stock
Every Delaware General Corporation must have one class of common stock, but it can have more than one class of stock, with different rules for the different classes. The most popular second class of stock is called “preferred stock” because it contains terms that are preferred over the rights of common stockholders. Delaware’s brand of [...]
Posted by Rick Bell on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Posted in 101, General Corporation, INC Knowledge, Stock
Tags: Delaware, General Corporation, Preferred Stock, Stock
Pop!Tech Conference and Videos
Last month I wrote about my love of TED Talks and today I am very excited to report that I recently found another great conference with a video library that is just as vast and inspiring called Pop!Tech. Every year remarkable people with innovative ideas gather in Camden, Maine to change the world. Mark your [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Monday, April 13th, 2009Posted in Videos of Interest
Tags: Kiva, Pop!Tech, TED Talks
Book Review: Longitude
I haven’t been on this planet for a very long time, but I’m astounded by the rate at which technology has advanced. My first ‘laptop’ weighed 23 lbs, my first mobile phone weighed about the same. In just the last 20 years they have become pocket sized, and 20 years before that, neither were even [...]
Posted by Jake Cornelius on Friday, April 10th, 2009Posted in Books of Interest
Tags: Book review, History, Learn
The Weekly Media Trainer: Part 4
Last week I wrote about formulating an agenda for an interview or news conference. I suggested that the best approach was to go into one of these sessions with a limited agenda of four, perhaps five major message points. Today, let’s focus on making those points quoteworthy. As a print reporter and, later, a television [...]
Posted by George Merlis on Thursday, April 9th, 2009Posted in 101
Tags: George Merlis, Media, Media Training, News
101 on Hedge Funds
In the news we have heard quite a bit about the hedge fund. However what really is a hedge fund? How can someone invest in the hedge fund? How have the hedge funds been able to provide such large returns in years past? The term “hedge fund” is generally used to refer to a variety [...]
Posted by Brett Melson on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Posted in 101
Tags: Hedge Fund
Google Launches a Venture Capital Fund
After much speculation Google has officially announced their new venture capital fund. They expect to invest up to $100 million dollars in it’s first year; this is fantastic news for all of you entrepreneurs with great ideas looking for capital. Your idea may very well be “the next big thing” that Google is looking for. [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Posted in Articles of Interest, Capital
Tags: Capital, Entrepreneur, Google
Craft Your Story: Technique # 2: Fun with Proust
I admit that fun and Marcel Proust, author of the several thousand page Modernist text Remembrance of Things Past are not always associated. However, the subject of this post, the Proust Questionnaire is surprisingly fun and it could be another way to generate the raw material to craft your story. Designed by the French author [...]
Posted by Christina Cornelius on Monday, April 6th, 2009Posted in Your Story
Tags: Craft Your Story, Entrepreneur, Startup, Vision
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