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I have been spending most of this month traveling with Belmont students throughout Eastern Europe learning about entrepreneurship.

While in Latvia, we saw huge numbers of “accidental” entrepreneurs. These are people who had never intended to be entrepreneurs, but who became self-employed out of Read More

Learning to recognize the difference between vanity metrics and actionable metrics can make all the difference to the growth of your business and your ability to recognize a plateau when it’s on the horizon Read More

Imagine that you are driving down the road and you get a call from your office that a VC is interested in talking to you about investing in your business, but the only time they have to meet with you is tomorrow at noon. You have never put together a pitch before, and feel slightly panicked. But th Read More

Ad Age's Can a Collaborative Cohort of Indie Shops Topple the Big Agency Networks covers a new ad agency called Circus Maximus.

Founded by a trio of former big ad agency executives, Circus Maximus is part of a new wave of small advertising firms that are challenging the big agencies.

What c Read More

Most cold call sales letters end up in the trash. But if you build in these five elements, you will earn your audience's attention. Read More

If you are considering starting a small business, there are a lot of options. Hundreds of thousands of new businesses are started in the United States every Read More

Marketing is about getting the details right. Most businesses don't pay enough attention to seeing themselves through their consumer's eyes so they don't get the details right. Read More

As a business owner I have noticed that entrepreneurs talk about a range of topics and we share some pretty personal details; what doesn’t happen is the talk about violence. We speak about managing teams and dealing with problem performers, Read More

When bad CEO’s happen to a company, here is what you need to know to keep the company from failing. Read More

In today’s marketplace, a company’s website is their first impression with prospects. It’s a rare purchase today that doesn’t begin with some sort of research or due diligence. And as consumers (both B2C and B2B) find themselves more time starved and more web savvy – the research tool of choice is Read More