Archive for Blogs
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Acquisition Activity? Up, According to Corum’s Nat Burgess
Corum Group is a leading provider of merger and acquisition services to software and information technology companies. Because of their heavy involvement in M&A, they are an excellent source of data about high tech transactions. Their president Nat Burgess was recently interviewed on CNBC abou...
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Re-Thinking The Role of a Business Speaker
Many meeting planners, and others who organize business gatherings, have a "check the box" attitude when it comes to hiring a professional speaker. They are concerned with getting someone who fits the desired topic, while not crossing the line of their budget. They do not take into account more th...
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Vision for Enterprises Old and New
Each Monday I post the next section of my 2001 book, which was originally called (by the publisher) Hoover’s Vision but which I have now retitled The Art of Enterprise. I have posted over half of it already; click on the “Monday” column to see all the prior sections. The entire book ...
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More Chinese Miracles
More Chinese MIracles A while back I posted an article about the future of China. Since so many others write about China and its impact on the US, I tend not to talk about it much. But that article, by Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Fogel (who taught me in college), included ver...
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Maximize Your Conference (Part 9 of 10) – "Be A Connector"
Maximize Your Conference (Part 9 of 10) Be A Connector By Thom Singer When you attend an industry conference it is easy to forget that you and the other attendees are all on equal footing. Often people feel they are on the outside of some super-secret "industry clique" and mistakenly believ...
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SBIR Reauthorization? Hit the Reset Button.
. It ain't gonna happen this year folks. The 111th Congress will be remembered for many things. Reauthorizing SBIR won't be among them. But, don't worry, they won't let it die. No one wants to be accused of killing a small business program. So it'll be extended as is, with yet another Continui...
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September Must be 2010′s Mobile & Wireless Month
There are so many mobile-related events in September alone that with (at least) 22 days of mobile events, September should be designated as 2010′s Mobile Month; see below: Mobile Future Forward, Sept 8, Seattle Over the Air, Sept 10, London APP Nation Conference, September 13 San Francisco...
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A Radical Spin on Capital Campaigns: An Interview with George Overholser, Part 2
As promised, today we are bringing you Part 2 of our interview with George Overholser from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. You can read Part 1 here. Nell: You have argued before that to transform the nonprofit capital market we need a few capital deals at the top of nonprofit market. How do you t...
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Austin Startup Weekend Sep 10-12
This weekend is Startup Weekend in Austin. While you’re probably heard of other weekend rapid startup events in Austin previously, this is actually the first official Startup Weekend in Austin. This is an un-conference style event where anybody can show up who wants to be involved with starting a ...
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Schlocky Crap Peddled As Investment Research. Ten Points of Suspicion
As a former Wall St. analyst, it’s easy to spot really bad research reports marketed as “investment research”. The problem is that it’s not as easy for the non-investment layman to recognize bad investment research. As an entrepreneur, you know your own market niche, but what do you know...
