September 30, 2011
Banking Realities in 2011
Weekly Memo - September 6, 2011 On August 26, 2011 Mike Flynn, former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal and now active in the world of…
September 22, 2011
Apple and Creating Buzz
Who believes that it was an accident when an Apple employee left a prototype of the iPhone 5 at a bar? It happened with the…
September 15, 2011
Innovation: Apple and the rest of us
I was talking with Rhea Wallace of Impact Washington and he told me about a study they have regarding the timeline from a new company…
September 1, 2011
Weekly Memo August 30, 2011
Fast Food Lessons August 30, 2011 The July 27, 2011 Wall Street Journal Marketplace section had an article on McDonalds and one on Dunkin' Donuts.…
August 30, 2011
Weekly Memo August 23, 2011
Four Keys to Making Smart Real Estate Decisions August 23, 2011 In a recent newsletter on ways to kill a buy-sell deal I asked for…
August 22, 2011
Read my Interview in Portfolio.com
I was interviewed for an article in Portfolio.com (a bizjournals.com publication) on the taking or not taking of vacations. Read it here. Get Started With…
August 21, 2011
Weekly Memo, August 16, 2011
What's in it for Your Client? On a plane last month I had to shake my head at the behavior of a couple passengers. After…
August 17, 2011
Shrinking Entrepreneurship
In the August 12, 2011 Wall Street Journal, John Bussey wrote, “Shrinking in a Bad Economy: America's Entrepreneur Class.” He discussed how startups and the…
August 12, 2011
Weekly Memo, August 9, 2011
Where is Your Bottleneck? The July 10, 2011 Seattle Times had an article on a local, small business that has created a software product to…
August 7, 2011
Weekly Memo, August 2, 2011
Own a Business - Be in Control The July 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal had a front-page story about how new 401(k) regulations have reduced…