Angel, Advocate and Thought Leader, Joe is a serial entrepreneur whose business mission is to foster and cultivate entrepreneurship in the US and abroad. More →
1I recently answered a question on LinkedIn for an entrepreneur concerned about getting their business model ripped off by a bigger player with deeper pockets.
Question: As a startup, specially when the presence is quite small, how does one deal with preventing the business model from being copied by another company, which probably has a better [...]
2Just a few days ago, I was on The Rusty Humphries show. Many of you wanted to listen to the recording so here it is in two format.
The main topic of our discussion is the recent speech made by the President on the new plan to create jobs in America. Small business was the [...]
1Granted, people like myself and small business advocate Jim Blasingame didn’t get our invitations to attend the Jobs Summit in DC this week. You can find my recent appearance on Jim’s radio show here.
But Jim and I shouldn’t be too offended. After all, neither did the US Chamber of Commerce, National Restaurant Association or half [...]
0What do entrepreneurs and small business owners do when banks forget what they are in business to do?
We get creative and survive.
This should be a lesson to policy makers in DC. Bailouts and government funded programs were not necessary for this entrepreneur. He just needed the freedom to be creative and make free enterprise [...]
0Here’s the audio track from a recent radio show I did with host Wayne Powers on WBT (Charlotte) on the topic of growing unemployment and what that means for entrepreneurship.
We also end up talking about small business in general and what government should/should not do (purely opinion) to make this a better business and growth [...]
0It is interesting to see what economic change triggers.
Sure, it triggers us to count our pennies, buy in bulk, conserve energy etc. etc.
But you know what else I notice it has a lot of entrepreneurs doing?
It has them dusting off (and in some cases resurrecting) their business plans. That’s a good thing (more on that [...]
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This post is in response to some questions and comments I got from the post I made on April 28th. If you haven’t read that post already, do that first by clicking here.
Ok, so we agree that Chambers of Commerce need to reinvent themselves to survive this changing marketplace.
But if you’re a Chamber leader, [...]
1Survey respondent #1: “Oh yeah, I’m a chamber member. But I don’t think I’m going to renew my membership this year.”
Survey respondent #2: “I am a member of my chamber, and the networking has been good. But I can’t say it has grown my business in any tangible way.”
A survey of small business owners shows [...]
2Every business typically starts on a paper napkin (or scratch pad, or legal pad, or white board…). The point is, that there’s a magical moment in time when the light bulb goes off for the first time in an entrepreneur’s mind and they reach for pen and paper to jot it down.
I’ve sat at countless [...]
