A current theme that continues to occupy my interest is how private equity/venture and angel investors view businesses and judge CEO’s. In a recent post, I discussed a Stanford Business Graduate School study “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” that showed that venture capitalists who are considering investing in entrepreneurial ventures, are most interested in […]
One of my favorite “sales” blogs that I read as often as possible is by Jill Konrath who is a widely read business-to-business sales expert. I like Jill’s blogs and newsletters because she focuses on driving more sales in less time, which is also a philosophy I practice as I help my clients successfully […]
In my last post, I commented that I believed that a CEO must lead by example, and that a CEO needed to seek out his team members as much as they needed to seek him or her out. So, I was rather pleased when I read this Corner Office article by Adam Bryant whose latest […]
As many of you know from my previous posts, I often comment on Adam Bryant’s pieces in the New York Sunday Times column, The Corner Office. I read the column weekly because I am fascinated by what drives business owners to become CEO’s, how and when and why did they become a CEO, what […]
The other day I came across one of my favorite newsletters from The Stanford Business Graduate School, and in particular the subject line “Do Funders Care More About Your Team, Your Idea, or Your Passion?” intrigued me to read on. In a study co-authored by Stanford finance professor Ilya A. Strebulaev, “How Do Venture Capitalists Make […]
During the months of December 2016 and January 2017, I had the opportunity to present “REFLECTIONS FOR THIS PAST YEAR AND OUTLOOK FOR THE COMING NEW YEAR” to over 100 people in 13 different networking groups. In the workshop we asked each other what were our professional accomplishments as well as our professional disappointments in […]
I was perusing through the Sunday NY Times, Business section a few weeks ago and I was intrigued with the headline, “At Work, Focus on the Fun”. (Read full article here Reading past the headline, I once again read the statistic from a recent Gallup poll that two of three working Americans do not […]
My passion and some people might say my obsession, is to learn as much as I can about successful CEO’s and successful companies. That being said, I was quite interested in the NY Times, Corner Office interview with John Lilly. John is a successful Venture Capitalist whose job is to evaluate CEO’s whose companies his […]
As you probably know by now having read my posts in the past, I am fascinated about how business people become CEO’s, and what they must focus on if they are to succeed at doing their job. The other day, I was reading Adam Bryant’s Corner Office column in the New York Times, (read article […]