Archive for November, 2008

Social Neworking for Startups
November 21, 2008

You’ve probably heard the phrase “Sales is a numbers game.” Or it’s variations: “Business is a numbers game.” Or “Accounting is a numbers game” (groan).
Only a statistician — or a weak sales person — would literally translate that phrase to mean the number of phone calls per hour or some such mechanistic interpretation. It rightly should [...]

Self-Financing Entrepreneurial Boom
November 15, 2008

With unemployment beginning to rise and bank lending anemic at best, leave it to an entrepreneur to point out the upside.
We are about to wittness the unleashing of the largest, best educated, self-funded, graduating class of involuntary entrepreneurs this country has ever seen.
Here’s the scenario: When downsizing and layoffs come, more experienced employees — who also [...]