My Outsourced Life
Last month, I was invited by The University of Arizona’s Professor Amar Gupta to speak to students of his Outsourcing of Professional Activities class and share with them my experiences with professional outsourcing and off-shoring.
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My Entrepreneurship Life
Earlier this fall, I delivered a presentation on my experiences as an entrepreneur to The University of Arizona’s Entrepreneurship Student Association. The club president, Brittany Hultstrom, and ESA members were so appreciative. I hope my bits of wisdom on the subject of entrepreneurship helps to better equip and motivate these young students to have the courage one day to launch their own ventures.
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Filed under: Eller MBA,Entrepreneurship,Life Experiences,Post.Bid.Ship.
The TruckItNow Cannonball Run Challenge
It started when a friend from Tennessee asked me to join him for the Alabama/Arkansas game in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The same day, Jarret’s old room-mate, Pete Mittelholzer, asked if he could help him ship some personal items from Tucson to his new home in Austin, Texas. When you combine this with my wife’s desire for some items in a storage unit we left in Tennessee, it became obvious: a road trip was in my future.
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Filed under: Entrepreneurship,Life Experiences,Post.Bid.Ship.
What Gets Measured Gets Improved
For the last 10 years, I have been an advisor in the technology industry helping companies implement technology that helps improve their business metrics. Many of my clients can repeat my most common question: What business metric are you seeking to improve?
Simple question right? Not always.
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Filed under: Business Management,Entrepreneurship,Most Popular
TruckItNow at UA Innovation Day 2010
Earlier this year, my team at TruckItNow as part of The University of Arizona McGuire Entrepreneurship Program entered and competed in the 2010 UofA Innovation Day competition. We competed along with 30+ teams for “Best TradeShow Business Pitch,” “Best TradeShow Booth” and “Best Tradeshow Investor Presentation.” My team TruckItNow swept two of the three awards including “Best TradeShow Business Pitch” and “Best Tradeshow Investor Presentation.”
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TruckItNow Cannonball Run Challenge
Jarret has challenged me to place myself into the shoes of a truck driver for a week and drive 3,600 miles cross country and back in less than 7 days. Should I accept Jarret’s challenge and do the TruckItNow Cannonball Run?
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Filed under: Entrepreneurship,Life Experiences,Post.Bid.Ship.
How ‘NOT’ To Thank Your Customers
Last month, I recommended my blog readers emulate a company called Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes for promoting their corporate message to their customers (click here to read my post if you missed it). This month, I share with you an example of how ‘NOT’ to communicate with your customers.
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Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes Knows Promotion
I enjoy visiting new and different restaurants when the opportunity presents itself. If you friend me on Facebook by clicking here, you can compete with others by guessing ‘What’s for Dinner?’.
Today, I stopped to enjoy a Tucson, Arizona restaurant called Souplantations and Sweet Tomatoes. What I really liked about this restaurant besides the food (which was great) was how they integrated their message into the surroundings of your table.
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Convertible Notes or Equity? Decisions, Decisions!
Every entrepreneur faces the decision when starting a new company on whether to raise outside capital. If raising capital is the method you choose, you must then decide what type of investing vehicle to use: offer convertible notes or sell equity. Decisions, decisions!
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Filed under: Business Management,Entrepreneurship,Venture Capital
Does An Entrepreneur Need An M.B.A.?
When evaluating entrepreneurs for potential investments, Rick Burnes, founder of the VC firm Charles River Ventures, shared in the book The VC Way “it helps to look at the educational level a person has attained and the institutions he or she attended. It takes some determination to get through a demanding university.”
I began researching MBA programs shortly after completing my bachelors a little over 10 years ago. I knew I wanted to attend a demanding program if I got the opportunity because of the opinions held by many investors like Burnes. These opinions weren’t new to me because while raising capital for a previous start-up, I had been told by several investors that my lack of an MBA was a negative.
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