I was reading Whitney Hoffman’s article on the Difference Between Listening and Hearing and it got me to thinking about all the conversations I have had last week, last year and all my life where the conversation was frustrated by neither one of us listening. I would say X and they would hear Y and [...]
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It is a tough proposition. I helped build the website GameVee that was dubbed a YouTube for gamers. The site was geared for gamers. The best feature was the ability to take XBox Halo 3 film from your file share and convert it to video and put it on the web. This was a great [...]
First thing you do is write a business plan. Learn more. Then the second thing you do is write a business plan. Yes it is painful but you have to write a business plan. You cannot get a loan, venture capital financing or know where you are going or if you are getting there without [...]
Took the kids to see Maw-Maw (grandmom) in rural North Carolina. Driving there I was thinking of my own childhood on Signal Mountain, Tennesee. We use to go up to the corner gas station and Junior was there with his overalls and we would pick up a case of soda in bottles and return the [...]
So what do you think the goal of these websites are: Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Pownce, YouTube, etc? Wouldn’t you love to read the original business plan vision, mission and strategy statments? I bet it is full of B.S. and what they stated in there business plans was very specific and they became something else. Facebook [...]
I was having a discussion over the Friend Feed Social-Media room if people thought there were any parallels to the Dot-Com (Bomb) days with Social Web companies. Some great points were made that there is a much larger audience now versus then and one comment that software platforms are more accommodating and the barrier to [...]
I use to be in the coffee business and as a retailer I was one of the lucky few that got to go visit coffee farms in Nicaragua. Traveling with my supplier Counter Culture Coffee, we went to San Ramon, Nicaragua to visit with the organic co-op of small family-owned coffee farms.
The trip [...]
How to calculate cost of goods sold and margin is a basic tenet of business. If you are in business and have no idea what I’m talking about, you will likely not be in business very long.
So let’s do a lemonade stand. So we will take a recipe and make a batch of lemonade.
Cost:
$1.97 Sugar [...]
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