Reading List: Financially Fearless
In 2008, Alexa Von Tobel left Harvard Business School to create a consumer-friendly online financial advisory service. Her mission was to teach financial literacy to young women—to help them straighten out their finances and avoid future money woes. Launched in 2009, her company, LearnVest Inc., found its niche: offering subscription-based advice by certified financial planners […]
Reading List: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
Social media innovator, provocateur, wine guru and sought-after speaker Gary Vaynerchuk describes his latest book, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook and The Thank You Economy with a modern-day spin.” Vaynerchuk believes successful social media and digital marketing is all about creating “perfect and distinct native content” tailored to a specific social media platform, be it […]
Janice Fraser: Factors that Contribute to Failure as an Entrepreneur
Deck the Halls with Tech
Whether you have a home office or commute to the realm of never-ending cubicles, your personal work area sees more of you than some of your closest friends. If it could talk, your office would ask Santa for these techy picks this holiday season. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”12858″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”350″,”style”:”width: 280px; height: 204px;”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”480″}}]] Brother MFC-J4610DW (Staples.com) The $199.99 Brother MFC-J4610DW […]
Kauffman Series: Knowledge Changes
Starting a Company: One Entrepreneur’s Story
Reading List: Hatching Twitter
New York Times tech blogger Nick Bilton’s impressively detailed fly-on-the-wall exposé of the micro-blogging site’s birth and evolution evokes all the titillating elements of a soap opera (minus the sex). Twitter’s co-founders Evan “Ev” Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Biz Stone—colleagues and friends at the outset—eventually bicker, backstab and take sides. There’s jealousy, intrigue, personality […]
Kauffman Series: Entrepreneurs Can’t, and Don’t, Wait
Message Me
I have a simple and powerful rule that has solved crises and averted disasters. It closed big sales and helped me sleep better. It even helped my marriage. The rule: If we email three times trying to answer the same question, then it’s time to stop emailing and try a different route. Call me. Text […]
Think-Big Ben: Take a Wild Ride with a Polar Explorer
With one trip to the North Pole in 2004, Ben Saunders, then 26, became the third person to reach it on a solo ski mission, set the record for the youngest to do so by more than 10 years, and secured the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Brit. But all the […]
Polar Explorer Ben Saunders: Why Leave the House?
Reading List: Leading Through Uncertainty
In fall 2011, Ray Davis, CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corp., the holding company for Umpqua Bank (Oregon’s largest independent community bank), learned that the Occupy Portland segment of the national movement was planning to march on the bank. Against the advice of his communications team, Davis did the unexpected: He invited the protest leaders to […]
