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We are all tired.  It is the dog days of summer, the bad economics have lasted too long, and we need either a break or a shot in the arm to excite us.
If you are deeply tired, take some time [...]

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When I was 27, and just beginning to build my consulting practice, I lived in an apartment carved out of an 1860’s townhouse, in a row of townhouses, on the flat of Beacon Hill in Boston.  The neighborhood has an annual “tour of the flower boxes” which spurs us all to plant pretty flowers in [...]

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Social media builds relationships in all the ways – both small and significant.  LeeAundra tells us why.  ~joey
Every week or so, I read a tweet that bemoans the trivial nature of other tweets. Usually, it implores Twitterers to stop telling us what they had for dinner and instead share important, profound, useful musings on life [...]

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I’ve just had a one of those 360 degree Internet-connected linking feedback experiences.  I read a book.  After reading it, I checked what its readers had to say in the community known as Amazon.  I found I agreed with everyone who voiced an opinion, both good and bad.  I am the richer for all of [...]

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Clarisse was a jazz dancer from New York, built short and rounded in the right places, not with a dancer’s narrow body.  Rarely did anyone see her dance.  But once at a party she stepped onto the floor and it was like watching mercury move with intention.  Fluid melting butter, smiling, nothing to prove.
Next day [...]

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“What no one tells you about raising investment capital” is an interview with me by Terry Corbell, and is posted today in his regular column “The Biz Coach” - Washington’s longest-running business column, since 2001 the Money News page appearing at www.kirotv.com.  KIRO (the TV station and the Web site combination) is the “2009 National [...]

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One of my favorite, sweet hearted entrepreneurs once said, “The family is coming home from holiday next week – then the pressure will begin.”  And  she was one of my kinder clients!
Another (years ago) told me he was spending 4 nights out of 7 sleeping on his techie’s couch directing the code he couldn’t write [...]

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noun, company stock that is not liquid, that can’t be sold
There are lots of companies with great technology and no nickels just now.  Should you work for no cash and vapor paper, on-the-come, for an exciting company?
Just as we have “vaporware” – software that isn’t really there, we have “vapor paper” – stock and stock [...]

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Summary:  The online ad model has fallen out of favor but it will return.  We are using the wrong metrics at the moment and failing to grasp the vast value of the data collected (and never mind PII).  Basically, it is a confluence of events—the depressing economic situation;  the transition to digital media;  and institutional [...]

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I was struck today with some delight at the tenacity of one of my clients.  All of his personal capital is in the business.  His house is at risk.  He has a dynamite product just launching, with proof of concept done, a soft launch completed, and customers pending.  The company is poised for the hard [...]

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