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Harbour Bridge Ventures: August 2010
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Thursday, August 26, 2010. A Series of Discussions on Conducting Better Meetings. Process for Reaching Meeting Objectives. Once the meeting objectives have been defined it is next important that the agenda clearly describes how the objectives will be achieved. This includes the specific steps to be followed during the meeting to achieve the objectives. Monday, August 23, 2010. Creating a Strategic Agenda.
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: September 2009
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Beethoven's Ninth - A Lesson in Leadership for Entrepreneurs. Beethoven’s Ninth – A Lesson in Leadership and Control. Readers of this Blog may well be asking now, what does this have to do with entrepreneurism or business? Ah, have patience good readers, please. Monday, September 28, 2009. Smart-sourcing - What to Outsource. What Should be Outsourced? When considering Smart-so...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: Be the Steve Jobs of Your Company
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Friday, September 2, 2011. Be the Steve Jobs of Your Company. Steve Jobs recently retired as CEO of Apple for health reasons. While he will continue in his role as Chairman and likely also as a keeper of the Apple vision, this caps his run as what may well be remembered as the most remarkable and effective CEO of not only our age but all time. Apple will be fine without Steve Jobs. To embody this principle,...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: November 2009
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Friday, November 13, 2009. Are You Ready to Raise Capital? A Series of Posts on Raising Capital. Are You Ready to Raise Capital? Entrepreneurs continually tell us how difficult starting a new venture is in the current economic climate. Newsflash! There are three primary areas to consider prior to seeking funding:. Completion of a comprehensive and professional business plan for presentation to investors.
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: March 2010
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Friday, March 19, 2010. Developing a Balanced Scorecard for Commercial Banking. One of the topics we have spent time with our Banking client on is the importance of a Balanced Scorecard to track and measure performance of the enterprise. Developing a Balanced Scorecard. When considering the strategic process, this provides an opportunity to consider the set of performance measures adopted by the Bank to mea...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: September 2011
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Friday, September 2, 2011. Be the Steve Jobs of Your Company. Steve Jobs recently retired as CEO of Apple for health reasons. While he will continue in his role as Chairman and likely also as a keeper of the Apple vision, this caps his run as what may well be remembered as the most remarkable and effective CEO of not only our age but all time. Apple will be fine without Steve Jobs. To embody this principle,...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: October 2009
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Thursday, October 15, 2009. Tips for Attracting Angel Investors. Tips for Attracting Angel Investors. Build a convincing case. Create a prototype and line up beta customers to provide validation. Founders need to have “skin in the game”. Be prepared to have “sweat equity” disregarded by investors. Focus your search for investors. Identifying angels who are suitable for your opportunity up-front will increas...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: January 2010
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The Importance of Early Customers to a Startup. If a Tree Falls and No One Is There to Hear It …. The Importance of Customers. Before describing the concert briefly and explaining my reasons for writing about the experience here, first a few words about the Beethoven composition performed by the Orchestra and Mr. Perlman. How does this performance speak to entrepreneurs? Investors...
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Harbour Bridge Ventures: August 2011
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Providing the Know What, Know How, and Know Who to Launch, Manage, and Grow Successful Companies™. Monday, August 29, 2011. How Great Leaders Inspire Action - The Golden Circle. For those who are unfamiliar with TED - TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Today the TED website, www.TED.com. Now for the TED talk I wish to share.
