What a great week.
I met Phillip Chipping of Shieldzone on Monday. If you are tired of your portable devices getting all scratched up head over to shieldzone and buy their clear cover protection system. Its really cool! Phillip has an amazing entrepreneurial story and I look forward to seeing huge things come out of this company.
Judd Bagley [...]
What is the real rate of small business failure in the United States? Over the years I have heard many different numbers. Just the other night in my class a guest speaker said that nine out of ten small businesses will fail in the first five years. Of those that make it past the five [...]
I just got back from voting. What a disappointing group of candidates we have here in Utah. I stood there staring at the shiny new Diebold voting machine for five minutes before I cast my first vote. It was for the United States Senate. I wrote in my own name and cast my ballot.
VOTE FOR [...]
I had the privilege of having Brock Blake and Jeff Jordan of Funding Universe come teach my class last night on the principles of angel financing.
We had a couple of technical problems and lost some time getting the presentation up but they gave us fantastic information. Check out Jeff’s blog on the class.
If you are [...]
I want to tip my hat to a couple of Utah business bloggers who are producing valuable content on a continual basis. I know there are plenty of good Utah business bloggers but these people made my list because of the consistency and value of their content. Here they are…
Blake Snow of Griffio Consulting is a [...]
What another amazing week!
I was in Seattle for sales consultancy training with Scott Bourne on Wednesday and Thursday. I have to say that was one of the most powerful trainings I have been through in my entire career. In the eight hours of training I scratched out 12 pages of notes. I just got done [...]
Guy Kawasaki said that the hardest part about getting started is getting started. So true! If you’ve been mulling over an idea in your head and don’t know where to start let me give you some pointers:
Write a business plan or at least write the idea down if you don’t know how to write a [...]
I get the sense that some people think I’m unapproachable. I’m not, really, I’m not! My wife thinks I can be “anti-social” and tells me that I need to work on my “people skills”. Don’t we all?
I really enjoy meeting new people and I especially love talking to students (in addition to the ones I [...]
