Archive for February, 2009
How do you like my new suit?
So, back in my 100th post, I mentioned a couple of upcoming surprises here at DCO. Here’s the first one – a face lift to the overall look of the site. The theme I had been using on the site as the Revolution theme by Brian Gardner, a very nice basic theme. While Brian does [...]
Keep spreading the word
We made good progress on the 2009 Entrepreneurial Qualities Survey this week, surpassing 20% of goal. As you remember, I’m shooting for 100 responses this time. I heard from a couple of you that you passed the post on to colleagues, and I appreciate that. We’ve even had a submission from Hong Kong, so the [...]
Survive the recession one customer at a time
I used to work for a large, multi-national consulting firm. I was with them for twelve years, the last three spent in business development and sales. One of the “tricks” for developing customer and prospect relationships, was to send a handwritten note after first meetings and important milestones. My employer had no problem ordering nice, [...]
2009 Entrepreneurial Qualities Survey
This is my 100th official post to the blog! I spent a small amount of time trying to come up with some sort of cheesy, bloggy way to celebrate, only to eventually decide most of the ways were, well, cheesy. So I’ll just say that it’s been a lot of fun writing those 100 posts, [...]
4 “Must-Haves” for any Entrepreneur
While I work with entrepreneurs of every stripe and color (the requirement being a technology focus), our program tends to attract mainly very early-stage entrepreneurs. In many cases, they are pre-revenue, and a large majority of them are looking for funding. What they need is coaching and mentoring, not simply an injection of cash, but [...]
For your consideration…
Last week I wrote a little piece linking “being nice” to personal excellence. I also made a (very) short pitch that the relationship was not only more than casual, but implied there were direct links to superior performance possible with this simple attitude adjustment. I purposely kept the article high on personal observation and low [...]
11 pieces of advice for entrepreneurs
The Weatherhead School of Management is a venerable Cleveland institution. Each year, they publish the “Weatherhead 100“, recognizing the region’s fastest growing companies. The 2008 list was recently published in another Cleveland institution, Inside Business magazine. Feel free to click the links for more information, if you like. This is the first year I’ve really [...]
A Strong Foundation for Personal Excellence
(By the way – this one works for Leadership too!) We’ve been talking almost exclusively lately on entrepreneurial topics, and in fact, I’ve got the updated Entrepreneurial Qualities survey just about ready to go. Before we dive headlong back into a new survey with it’s results and commentary, I want to take a side trip [...]
