Although a cliché, it is true that for the most part companies exist to solve problems and serve their customers. Profit is the life blood of any business and capital comes from the people you serve. A cliché that isn’t always necessarily true in business is, to make a large impact you need to cater [...]
Tag Archives: entrepreneurship
Make the Call!
February 13, 2011 – 6:06 am
In my experience as an entrepreneur, one of the clear cut differentiators I have experienced between successful entrepreneurs and those that have been for the most part unsuccessful is tenacity and the ability to pick up a phone. Use these two skills to your advantage and almost anyone in the business world is accessible. For [...]
Using Kaizen as an Entrepreneur
January 16, 2011 – 8:04 am
It is the second biweekly post of 2011 and this post’s topic is about using Kaizen principles as an entrepreneur. Kaizen is a Japanese concept meaning “continuous improvement” or “change for the better”. When applied to entrepreneurship it honors improving processes — and optimizing the entrepreneurial journey — more than focusing on static outcomes. The [...]
Interview with Hammad Zaidi About Calculated Business Risks
September 23, 2010 – 4:47 am
Hammad Zaidi is a managing executive of several successful endeavors, which includes being the CEO of Lonely Seal Releasing, a film and television distribution company that has represented over 40 projects, including Julian Lennon’s Whaledreamers and Harrison Ford’s Dalai Lama Renaissance. He also owns Lonely Seal Pictures, a production company, as well as his newest [...]
Interview with Edward Baker About the Viral Factor
June 27, 2010 – 10:31 pm
Ed Baker is the co-founder/CEO of Friend.ly, a site which makes it fun to discover and connect with new people on Facebook. He has been working on viral growth for the past 10 years across multiple mediums, including email, SMS, IM, and Facebook. Since the 2007 launch of the Facebook platform, he has worked on [...]
Interview with Lloyd Nimetz About Social Entrepreneurship
March 24, 2010 – 6:17 am
Lloyd Nimetz is a successful serial social entrepreneur. He has worked for Prosper, Ashoka, Endeavor, the UNDP and the IADB. Before obtaining his Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University in 2008 he was one of the founders of HelpArgentina which is an organization that promotes philanthropy by helping individuals, businesses, and foundations identify and [...]
Interview with Bryan Pate About Launching a Product
December 23, 2009 – 11:55 pm
Bryan Pate is co-founder of the company ElliptiGO Inc. and the inspiration behind a new innovation in sports fitness, the ElliptiGO 8S, the world’s first elliptical bicycle. Bryan is a former triathlete, United States Marine, and McKinsey alumnus. His company has just recently launched their product which can be found at ElliptiGO website. Here are [...]
Interview with Mark Friedman About Innovation
September 23, 2009 – 11:25 pm
Mark Friedman is the co-founder and president of Perfect Fitness, LLC, the creators of the Perfect Pushup and Perfect Pullup. Mark is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization and in the past has served in numerous executive management roles including eLabor.com (which was ultimately acquired by ADP and Microsoft) and The Genetics Institute, acquired by [...]
Interview with Kristi Frank About Mompreneurs and Women in Business
March 23, 2009 – 7:27 pm
Kristi Frank is the founder & CEO of Saturday Morning Success. Saturday Morning Success is an online-based company that helps women entrepreneurs live out their dreams through tele-seminars with the country’s top female CEOs, experts, and entrepreneurs. Kristi holds a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California and was one [...]
Interview with Olav Sorenson About Business Strategy
September 23, 2008 – 11:08 pm
Olav Sorenson is an expert in the field of business and strategy and a prolific academic professor who has taught at the University of Chicago, University of California (Los Angeles), London Business School and is now teaching at the University of Toronto. His current research agenda sits at the intersection of organizational ecology and social [...]
