If you're in the Northern Hemisphere don’t look now, but summer’s winding down. Grab time to go outside with your mobile device to catch up on both those rays and that summer to-do hit list. I know for me that includes mapping the learning blueprint for the Entrepreneurship course I'm slated
The New Gatekeeper?
Pop quiz, What do each of the below have in common? "Come on out to the picture show." "Same Bat time, same Bat channel." "I want my MTV." Each is a former powerful lever in the media game. Ever since I fell into the media/entertainment industry in the mid-1990s the winning combination for
Keeping Your Strategy From Going Bust
Why do business strategies fail? They're developed by smart, insightful, and motivated people. That shouldn't be a formula which results in over 70% going belly up. Yet it does, with most doing so within six months of completion. Popular convention focuses on two causes of failure: people
Pop Quiz: Do you know these 47 business development acronyms?
Remember when you sat in that meeting to discuss the latest product launch and you heard a twenty something roll through a virtual alphabet soup of social media acronyms, only five of which you knew. Right then and there you made a commitment to yourself; "Never again, this is to
7 Elements of a Business Plan
"Entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with situations of high uncertainty." - Eric Ries http://youtu.be/tqfL_ESHCrY?hd=1 Here's a short video (9 minutes) of the introduction for the financial management component of the mini-MBA course I was fortunate enough to teach last
Letting Go
In my prior post series on business models I talked about getting liberated. Breaking connections to make room for your new ideas. One of the most difficult traditional views for businesses is the thought that a product or service needs to be perfected before released upon the masses. Yes, a