The Quest to Find Investor Dollars
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Most days, traffic in Los Angeles is obnoxious. Today was no exception. To pass the time I downloaded an audio book Do The Work by Steven Pressfield.
First off, I’m almost always excited to hear the author reading his own book. I say ‘almost’ because there are those rare occasions where the author makes listening very difficult (Start Something That Matters is one example where author Blake Mycoskie totally ruined it for me – good thing Blake is a brilliant entrepreneur).
If you haven’t already discovered the wonderful world of Evernote then I encourage you to check it out…..NOW! you’re life will be better for it. Trust me! Evernote let’s you capture everything from text, photos, sounds, pdf’s and sync across pretty much all of your devices.
I’ve discovered a great new addition to Evernote: Say Mmm. Say Mmm let’s you maximize the power of Evernote whilst shopping. If you drop a recipe into Evernote, Say Mmm will automatically populate a shopping list AND provide you with the meals nutritional information.
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Customer negotiations can be tricky, particularly when it comes to cornerstone deals for start ups. The negotiation process shouldn’t be one sided, resulting in one party winning and the other losing. The ideal outcome for any negotiation is a win-win for both your client and your company. Below are some little gem’s of advice thanks to Inc.com and were based upon a conversations with sales expert Randall Murphy, (president of Acclivus R3 Solutions), and negotiating expert James C. Freund, author of the book Smart Negotiating.
Every entrepreneur has the dream of building their business to the point where they can take 12 months off. But are we being realistic? Inforsurv’s CEO, Jared Heyman took a 12 month sabbatical. How did his business survive?
What’s Greece got to do with your business? How worried should you be? And what’s the silver lining? It’s all here.
Now, you don’t have time to study the nuances of the European Financial Stability Fund or the finer points of Greek parliamentary procedures. (You’ve got a business to run!) So here are the five questions—and answers—you should be asking about the debt crisis.
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