"Will the Google IPO have any impact on the Venture Capital market?" FundingPost (http://www.FundingPost.com) surveyed 32 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors for their opinions. FundingPost is happy to share these responses from leading venture investors as it should help guide CEOs of emerging companies who plan on raising capital today:1) Google raised $25 million from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Would you have...more
Recently, I was reviewing our website statistics. One of the sites that had a link to mine caught me by surprise. Since this is a family publication, I won't include the name of the website. But, let's just say it contains a four-letter word that people do not use in most business circles.The website was basically a bulletin board for people to rant about other companies. The posting about my website started out with the subject, 'Is this website...more
The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars. Many Fortune 500 companies are now making their intellectual property available for sale or licensing at new online intellectual-property exchanges. These companies are trying to maximize their return on research and development investment and generate a new source of revenue by licensing their unused and underutilized inventions to others. A number of online forums, including Minnesota-based NewIdeaTrade.com (http://www.newideatrade.com), California-based Pl-x.com (http://www.pl-x.com), and Connecticut-based PatentTriage.com (http://www.patenttriage.com) now link buyers and sellers of intellectual property. The traditional transfer of intellectual property is complicated, costly, and can take up to one year. However, these online forums simplify and speed up the process for transfer of new ideas. The Internet currently reaches more than 560 million users around the world. This makes innovators' potential for exposure much higher than with traditional forms of media. The...more
Are you serious about starting or managing your own home based business? Consider this: most successful business owners exhibit very similar traits which helped pave the way to their success. Think of any successful business leader you admire. What characteristics do they exhibit? Are they ruthless, focused, self assured, dynamic, real go getters,...more
Many businesses of today are often driven to compete striclty on price, quality, and features of their products and services. Companies who prosper over the long term don't simply offer the best deals, the best quality, or the most impressive bells and whistles. If you want to win big in today's cutting edge world of business, you have to begin...more
Your resume will generally receive a 15- to 30-second scan upon first review by an employer. With that in mind, it is critical that your resume -- your "paper handshake" -- makes a positive first impression and compels the reader to put your resume in the "yes" pile and possibly call you in for an interview.Before you circulate your resume, you will want to ensure it incorporates the basic characteristics of a powerful, interview-generating resume. When evaluating your resume you can follow the same basic steps as professional resume writers. This will increase the chances not only of having it placed into that "yes" pile, but also of helping it rise to the top of the stack.STEP 1: Ask yourself, "Is my resume in the correct format to best showcase my career history?"Is your resume the appropriate length, format, and formality for the position you are targeting?Length: For someone with five or more years of experience, a resume will typically be one to two pages. It isn't at all uncommon for executive-level resumes to be as long as three or four pages. If you are a recent college graduate one page may suffice, but don't be afraid to go two pages, particularly if you have some work,...more
A business without succes in some degree is not good. Succes comes from either growth in the number of customers or in the numbers of sales you do per customer. Business Intelligence can assist a company to gain new customers and keep hold of old...more
A gadfly on a dinosaurs butt, or the hood-winking of the American stock investor.Have you ever noticed how some words in the English language are so perfectly named for what they describe? And how some words seem to be, I guess you could say,...more
I recently heard from a trader who told me he has been having problems with discipline in his day trading. He knows how to trade, he knows the setups he needs to be looking for in the charts, when to enter, and when to exit. His trouble is in having...more
In the first article (first in a three part series) we explained the little known science of Axiology, the Value Profile and how it is helping CEO's obtain the greatest leverage from employee's strengths.We described how a CEO (we called him Richard)...more
Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of 'Chicken Soup for the Soul,' will keynote a meeting of entrepreneurs at San Diego's Bahia Resort Hotel Sept. 10-12 as part of the 'Wake Up Succeed Summit.' Hansen, author of 'The One Minute Millionaire: The...more
Many of us thought that by now the real estate market's favor would have swung from buyers to sellers, but that does not appear to be the case. With summer coming to a close, some would argue that a solid home buyer in today's flat real estate...more