Archive for March, 2009
How to write a winning elevator pitch
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Writing a good and punchy “elevator pitch” is way harder than most people think. Plus I find that I really need to teach this skill a lot with my Stanford and UC Berkeley MBA’s to help them both with distilling…
Been laid off…should you hire yourself?
Sunday, March 15th, 2009You know the numbers
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in FEBRUARY 2009 Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent. In February, job losses were large and…
So, You Want to Be an Entrepreneur at the Wall Street Journal
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Kelly K. Spors wrote an excellent article (So, You Want to Be an Entrepreneur) at the Wall Street Journal last week and one of the reasons I love it so much is that it totally echoes my own thoughts on…
The One-Minute Entrepreneur: review by Jon Gillespie-Brown, Author "So you want to be an entrepreneur"
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
This is a typical “parable” style book from the Blanchard stable. In this case heavily influenced by the other Authors and it covers some simple concepts as part of an equally simple storyline.
The book sets out to make clear there…
