Jul 24, 2009
The other morning I was awakened at 6:30 a.m. from a deep sleep (I am a California night person) by one of my clients (a NYC morning person) with an urgent (right now this minute) assignment (it couldn’t have been called a request): to rewrite the investor summary...
Jul 22, 2009
My close colleague, Gene Siciliano (our “CFO for rent” at www.cfoforrent.com) is an excellent strategist, consultant and speaker. His website is filled with resources and articles, and you can sign up for his newsletter. I wanted to share this article with you about...
Jul 17, 2009
This is a new series and category that addresses the deadly details of making sure that all your efforts in creating business and balance do not come to naught due to the necessaries of life left undone ~ necessaries like money, legalities, insurance, administrivia. ...
Jul 10, 2009
Once, playing poker with Lewie Palter, a teacher of actors at Cal Arts, I remarked that actors had all the character traits of entrepreneurs: they didn’t follow the usual path, they had deep confidence in their own talent, and they would abandon a conventional life...
Jul 8, 2009
The weekend of Independence Day (2009), the radio show “Marketplace Money” ran a short piece on what it would be like to be financially independent. One person described financial freedom as living free of credit card debt. But the point of the story was more...
Jul 6, 2009
As we must expand our capital searches in this economy to funding sources outside of our immediate industry insiders, we now continue our exploration of clearer, simpler language for the pitch for capital (see more on this topic posted under writing & pitching)....
Jul 3, 2009
As we must expand our capital searches in this economy to funding sources outside of our immediate industry insiders, we now continue our exploration of clearer, simpler language for the pitch for capital (see more on this topic posted under writing & pitching)....
Jul 1, 2009
As we must expand our capital searches in this economy to funding sources outside of our immediate industry insiders, we now continue our exploration of clearer, simpler language for the pitch for capital (see more on this topic posted under writing & pitching)....
Jun 29, 2009
I’ve been reviewing several pitches for capital written by some of my new clients who are Internet entrepreneurs. These pitches are generally targeting venture capitalists who invest in new Internet companies. We are working together to expand our capital strategy...
Jun 26, 2009
I have been in a series of meetings with early-stage technology companies lately, discussing strategic capital. These founders and CEOs started developing their technology before the current economic crisis, and have rightly continued their progress. Some have...
