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If the market isn’t buying what you’re selling, maybe it’s time to take your lemons and turn them into lemonade. Last week, I sat down with my colleague Joe Fulvio of Third Coast Partners, a management consultant who has spent more than 25 years helping clients enter new markets and capitalize on new business opportunities, […]

When raising capital for a startup business, the friends-and-family route generally offers the path of least resistance. Turns out a recession changes everything. Recently, I sat down with two clients who needed help with their business plans. Though their industries were poles apart (fashion and financial services), they shared a common problem. The friends-and-family well […]

In the perennial horse race between Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley, New York-area companies have pulled ahead by a nose. While Northern California’s tech community still receives the lion’s share of venture funding, Big Apple startups raised $566 million in the first quarter, up 18.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009 and 32 percent […]

As a consultant who works with startups and small businesses, I often meet with partners who are launching a business together. Whether they’re married couples, high school buddies or friends from a previous job, they’re usually in the honeymoon phase of their relationship, all lovey-dovey and optimistic about the future. But, occasionally, I’ll meet with […]

An O’Neil Associates/ASBA Arizona Economic Indicators Monitor poll of small-business owners in Arizona found that 44 percent of those entrepreneurs oppose spending public funds on hosting an NFL Super Bowl in their communities. The results, reported in the Phoenix Business Journal, indicate that 66 percent of the business owners polled would support a Super Bowl […]

A47-year-old man who spent nearly 20 years in prison for a crime hedidn’t commit, and who went on to establish a profitable ATM business,died in Hawaii early this morning, according to reports. The Los Angeles Times states that DeWayne McKinney,convicted of a 1980 robbery-murder in Orange, Calif., then released twodecades later because prosecutors realized he […]

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