Posts Tagged ‘Missed Entrepreneurial Opportunity’
Avoiding Risk: The Opposite of Being an Entrepreneur
Recently I was at a business networking event in New York. And a man was doing a good job presenting his product to the audience. It was high-end with nice “green” features that he was hired to design for his client, who operates in a very competitive industry. But there was no indication of the environmental features of the product, a key selling point.
After the presentation, I asked him what was up with that. He said his company has been around for 50 years and they are not about to change. How’s their business doing? “Struggling. Sales are way off and more competition is setting in daily.”
Businesses are in serious trouble when are not taking on bold, new ideas. Especially today with the economic climate, fierce global competition and technology shifts.
6 Confirmed Panels for New York Entrepreneur Week April 2010
Social Media Can Generate Revenue For My Business…. Really?
Description: Panelists discuss unique strategies they’ve implemented for leveraging social media to generate substantial revenue for their businesses. Long and short-term strategies for generating this important additional revenue source will be explored.
Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Impact at Home
Description: Launching a business can have a significant impact on your family and personal relationships. This panel discusses many of the common challenges, and offers strategies to strike a healthy balance between business and relationships.
I Have No Money, Now What?
Description: Panelists will discuss creative approaches to sustainability and stability as well as how to develop, build and scale a breakthrough company with limited resources, such as:
1) Unique incentive structures for your company
2) Free and low cost resources for entrepreneurs
Success is in the Company You Keep
Description: Seasoned entrepreneurs and CEO’s reveal how to diligence partners, suppliers and employees; as well as
1) How to find an attract the right talent and partnerships
2) Understanding the pitfalls of hiring just on resume alone
3) Understanding how and where to find a complimentary partner
4) Hiring, managing, getting the most out of non-full-time employees
My Product isn’t Cool? What in the World Should I Do?
Description: Panelists discuss how to get the word out about your product, even when it isn’t flashy. Topics include:
1) Understanding hype and why it’s a power weapon
2) Clever ways to get publicity for your brand
3) Learn the pros and cons from top-tier “spin doctors”
The $5MM Company: Growing Fast…. But Also the Right Way
Description: Panelists will share tactics they’ve leveraged to achieve unprecedented business growth; as well as strategies for mitigating marketshare loss in the face of stagnant growth.
Top 10 Ways to Out-Green Your Competition
Things here in NYC are crazy with corporations and entrepreneurs trying to figure out how to catch the green wave.
And if you’re in doubt whether there is some serious potential in business in this area, just spend 3 minutes at any magazine store and look at the front covers of some of the major publications. That should placate your doubts!
Why is the “green” industry so darn hot and very unlikely to be just a fad:
* Red China is now turning green and will lead the way in a very short time
* European countries are returning to coal know as “the dirtiest fuel on earth”
* The planet’s population is expected to increase 50%… to 9 billion… within 40 years
* The number of cars and trucks is expected to double by 2040 to two billion
* The number of commercial jetliners is expected to double to 36,000 by 2030
Leveraging Social Media Today- What is the Future of Print?
The new business landscape is truly a game changer. It allows smaller businesses to reach 1,000s of potential customers without huge marketing budgets like that of larger corporations. Viral videos, Facebook, Twitter are a few of the new tools available to small business.
But, just like any tool, social media tools are worthless unless you know how to use them. Paramount in successful use of social media is to avoid what’s termed interruption marketing. That is, disrupting people with your sales message when they haven’t asked for it.
Instead, people want to be helped. Rather than selling to someone, it is more effective to provide useful information. If someone on a forum asks a question, one should answer it rather than saying “hire me”. By providing help and showing you knowledge, you’re more apt to actually have a follow up discussion involving being hired.
The old days of spending tons of cash for print, TV or radio ads are gone. The new landscape involves being nice and un-solicitous. For more information about the new business landscape, attend New York Entrepreneur Week.
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About the Blogger:
Matthew Weiss is owner of Weiss & Associates, PC, a boutique vehicle and traffic law firm located at 419 Park Avenue South, New York, NY. For more information visit his site New York Traffic Lawyer. Mr. Weiss is also the Global Learning Chair for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a worldwide not-for-profit dedicated to helping businesses owners learn and grow.
5 Components to Making Your Business Perfect
Lately I have been teaching a uniquely green focused FastTrac™ Tech Venture program run by ITAC – New York City’s Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation.
Our class is full of small start-up and early-stage businesses with state-of-the-art green technology business concepts. Super cool ideas ranging from solar panel manufacturers to internet-based companies that measure energy usage of your home and commercial buildings.
New York Entrepreneur Week’s Top 10 Tips to Starting a Business in This Economy
For the fearful, our current economic environment is an obstacle, for the bold, it is an opportunity.
What do companies like GE, HP, Microsoft, CNN, Hyatt and Burger King have in common? They were all started in economic downturns by entrepreneurs whose passion, commitment, and ability to execute far out-shadowed the temporary economic obstacles.
New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) scheduled November 16th to the 20th 2009 celebrates the opportunities to be found in this economy. Through a series of panels, keynotes and networking sessions, entrepreneurs will learn from over 120 speakers from 18 states and 3 continents the resources available to them and how to launch, grow, and manage a successful business venture.
Unemployed? Harvard MBA or Launch a Startup?
The situation: You’ve lost your job. And the market to get another one as you well know is dismal. With this as a backdrop, you may be thinking that now is the time to invest in yourself. Perhaps by going to business school and getting an MBA? Or perhaps it is time to start that business you’ve had in the back of your mind for some time?
There are plenty of people advising that now is the perfect time to start a business. But if debating between business school or starting your own business, how should one think about this decision?
The Age of Stupid – Can We Save the World by 2015?
Last month I saw a fascinating movie premier, The Age of Stupid.
Never mind that it was the first time a movie premier was broadcast live via satellite (from here in New York) around the world on over 550 screens in 45 countries. Or that they had in attendance the likes of Kofi Annan (former Secretary General of the United Nations), Heather Graham and Jillian Anderson as well as music from Moby and Radiohead.. Or that The Huffington Post called the movie launch “One of the most important films of the year (perhaps decade)….” as both a new way independent films will be released and also a way to give additional exposure to the environmental message. Read the rest of this entry »
