Posted in Business, Entreprenurship on Jun 27th, 2008
Yesterday, I saw the almost-finished construction of OfficeSpaces.nl, a very cool concept in shared office space, leased space for small entrepreneurial companies, and a common area that will be the first lounge for the E.Factor network members.
Martijn Roordink took Bill Sobel, Roeland Reinders, and me around on a tour of the
beautiful new space,which [...]
Posted in Entreprenurship, events, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Jun 27th, 2008
The reason I’m in the Netherlands was an invitation by Adrie and Roeland Reinders and Marion Freijsen of the E.Factor to speak, along with Bill Sobel and two gentlemen from the Netherlands at a “Beyond Web 2.0″ event. at the Philips Innovation Center (research labs) at Eindhoven.
After a great drive out to Eindhoven, (thanks Martin), [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, angel investing on Apr 10th, 2008
David Rose from NY Angels and Angelsoft spoke tonight at the 92nd Street Y’s Tribeca location on Hudson Street on Angel investing. About 225 people in attendance.
Key ideas: 600K companies start every year. Only 50k are funded by angels. Rest are funded by the founders, or by friends/family.
VC: Professional investors.
Angels: Rich-ish people investing own money [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, NextNY, howardgr, marketing, social media, socialmedia on Apr 3rd, 2008
Today I released the first monthly newsletter for the Harbrooke Group. If you want to subscribe and haven’t received an opt-in email (of course we did an opt-in, that’s permission marketing in action) please sign up on the newsletter tab above.
Why a newsletter? I have many friends who are all over Twitter, Facebook, and other [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, events on Mar 4th, 2008
In Part 1 we discussed Stephanie’s background, and what led her to start her new company. In this final part we discuss the money and what Stephanie’s measure of success is, relating to finances.
Howard: Did you have to raise capital to run the event?
Stephanie: The company isn’t incorporated, so from a legal perspective I’m doing [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, events, marketing on Mar 4th, 2008
This Entrepreneur Starts Her Business…With an Event About Starting a Business…
Stephanie Booth is a blogger, freelance Internet consultant and a new entrepreneur who is starting a conference business. Her first conference is for other freelance workers in the web and technology space and it focuses on the essentials of running a business. And Stephanie [...]
Posted in Entreprenurship, Sales, Selling, business development, marketing on Feb 29th, 2008
My understanding of “Sales” has been much more clearly honed since I became a consultant. By definition you’re always selling yourself, as well as your services or products. This is critical, and sometimes difficult to remember.
I was reminded of this today when coaching a client who is also a consultant. He has made an agreement [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, LinkedIn, social media, social networks on Feb 27th, 2008
I’ve written previously about using Social Networks to make connections for business, and even predicted in my recent talk at TIMA (slides are there) that in 2008, people will “use of Real Life Events to make Virtual Connections that help you make Real (and Valuable) Connections.” This idea came from a talk I had with [...]
