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• Catching Up On Readings: Major Tech Trends

  Sramana Mitra

  5 Feb 2012 | 6:15 pm

  What will be the trends that shape the year and the decade to come? Tech forecaster Daniel Burrus weighs in with The Top 20 Technology-Driven Trends for 2012. How will trends vary be region? We... ___

• 1M/1M Video: How Can 1M/1M Help Me Validate My Idea?

  Sramana Mitra

  5 Feb 2012 | 7:44 am

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• Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Jim Ackerman, Founder of Ackermania Creative (Part 7)

  candicearnold

  5 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  SM: That’s exactly why I’m probing. How do you seed it? You have made a very, very clear case of how Orabrush has done a systematic job of creating content, building a channel, episode by episode,... ___

• Outsourcing: Rick Ferry, COO of C3 (Part 5)

  candicearnold

  5 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  SM: Now, talk to me about the training. Especially, in the political debate right now, it comes up all the time that there are plenty of jobs. There are not enough skilled people to fill them. Talk... ___

• Outsourcing: Ross Kimbarovsky, Co-Founder of CrowdSPRING (Part 7)

  candicearnold

  5 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  Sramana Mitra: It’s not that simple. Video is a much more complex thing because producing a video is a lot more expensive and cumbersome than producing even a skeleton logo design. Ross Kimbarovsky:... ___

• Your Vision Statement Sucks

  Greg Kyte

  5 Feb 2012 | 7:10 am

  Your vision statement sucks. Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but it does. Your vision statement blows. The good news is you’re not alone. According to a recent survey 98.8 percent of all accounting firms’ vision statements suck.* It should comfort you, however, that each of the Big 4 firms’ vision [...]

• THRIVEcast 7 is out!

  thriveal

  2 Feb 2012 | 6:10 am

  It’s a good thing this is THRIVEcast #7 because Greg gives you gambling lessons in this episode! Be sure to check out the discussion on the barbell theory of risk. Best of all, hear Rafi Mohammed, author of The 1% Windfall, challenge Jason and Greg on their pricing views. Listen and let us know what [...]

• Running a Firm is A Family Affair: Special Community Call for Tribe Members and Their Better Halves

  thriveal

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  Hey THRIVE Tribe Members, there has been a lot of chatter about how to meet the needs of our spouses as we move into firm ownership. They live with the consequences of our choices. Let’s bring them into the conversation! The registration link can be found in the Events section of Yammer, or just let [...]

• What’s So Great about THRIVE Tribes? Tribe Members Weigh In!

  Jennifer Blumer

  21 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm

  After an exciting first year in THRIVEal, several members recently decided to go a little deeper by joining a THRIVE Tribe. While we had all enjoyed some pretty lively discussions in the THRIVEal LinkedIn group, it became clear that we needed a better platform to be able to share files, photos, recordings of meetings, etc. [...]

• THRIVEcast 6

  thriveal

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:02 pm

  So the latest THRIVEcast came out just before Christmas. Did you hear it? Jason Blumer and Greg Kyte discussed the upside of customer complaints and what is means to work in a ROWE. Jason and Greg also had a fun conversation with Jay Shepherd, author of Firing at Will. Be sure to listen before the [...]

• Lawyers Using Social Media

  bcjb

  31 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Advertising recently released its Guidelines for Networking Sites, which are meant to give Florida lawyers some guidance as to how the Bar Rules apply to social media sites like Facebook, Linkedin, +, and Twitter. Communications from a Florida lawyer that promote the lawyer’s legal services are regulated by the Bar Rules. So a lawyer using social media for social purposes is probably not subject to the rules, where a lawyer using social media for commercial purposes — to attract clients — probably is subject to the rules. I have…

• TechVenture… human adventure.

  bcjb

  9 Dec 2011 | 9:16 pm

  Remarks delivered at the TechVenture conference. December 6, 2011. Hard Rock Cafe, Universal Studios, Orlando. [The audio is here: techventure2011] On December 17, 2010, Mohammad Bouazizi, a 26 year-old street vendor in Tunisia, was harassed, beaten, and humiliated by police for selling vegetables in the street without a permit, which is a euphemistic way of saying he failed to bribe the right people. Shortly after this utterly dehumanizing incident, in which his entire stock of produce was taken and his pushcart – his only source of income – ransacked, Bouzizi, in an act of protest…

• Playful Detachment

  bcjb

  15 Aug 2011 | 3:40 pm

  Is this seat saved? So I’m sitting in a movie theater and this guy comes up to me and says, “Excuse me, is this seat saved?” And I say, “Well if Thomas Aquinas reasoned that even animals have no souls… how can an inanimate object like a chair expect to attain eternal salvation!?” And he says, “No I mean is anyone sitting there?” And I said, “Ah…! Ambiguity. The Devil’s volleyball.” Ambiguity. The Devil’s volleyball. The universe is ambiguous and inexact, so stop looking for bright lines or you’ll miss the show. Reality is not digital, it’s analogue. Your…

• Elements of an Executive Summary for Startups

  bcjb

  23 May 2011 | 11:31 am

  An executive summary is often the first document potential investors see about your company. Think of it as a 1-3 page advertisement for your company to investors. Its purpose is to cause the investor to want to learn more about the opportunity. It should contain no trade secrets or confidential information. Here’s what I look for in an executive summary. intro: A one-sentence description of the business. Describe what the business does to make money. This should pop. It’s like a magazine cover that makes me desperately need to pick up the magazine to learn more. It should inform…

• Is Reality Real?

  bcjb

  9 Mar 2011 | 9:57 pm