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Phoenix Company Re-formulates Paint Without Toxins -- Even the Tints

If the air quality inside your house concerns you, you might want to think about the paint on the walls. A Phoenix startup, Green Planet Paints, has done that, and come up with what they think is a better way to ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Five Ways to Know If You're Cut Out to Be a Corporate Entrepreneur

Although the myth is that innovation doesn't happen in big companies, the reality is that corporations have a major role to play in fostering this crucial economic driver. Apple and Google have launched game-changing new enterprises, ...READ»

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An Entrepreneur's View of South Korea

Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»

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An Entrepreneur's View of South Korea

Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»

Will Flowtown Finally Solve the Small Business Marketing Problem?

Most small businesses have it really rough. Whether they are retail or b2b, marketing is a huge problem for them because the can't do sponsorships, brand strategy, advertising and slick PR like the big boys. They've still got to get ...READ»

Is Your Startup a Nice to Have or Must Have?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and ...READ»

Role of entrepreneurs in the New ‘New Deal’

In the time of the great depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a visionary President laid out a series of bold initiatives under the plan famously known in the US history as the ‘New Deal’. The New Deal was created mainly to ...READ»

EmpowHer Launches Free Health Events for Women

There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com, a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ»

Teaching entrepreneurship to Youth

In the time of the recession, I hear more people discussing the need for ‘sustainable’ innovation. As the legendary venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner would say - Even turkeys can fly in a high wind. In the times of strong ...READ»

Understanding the 4th media revolution

Rupert Murdoch’s comments this week about twitter had me thinking about the rationale behind his statement. Murdoch sees no monetary value and the future for twitter and predicts that the only successful business model on the web ...READ»

Embracing the power of abundance in the conceptual economy

The business landscape and the economy as we know it is changing and it is changing fast. What you have is an endless collaborative opportunities, with an abundance of knowledge and free means at your disposal. How can an entrepreneur ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Recession Inspires New Garden Product for Locavores

While I have been "celebrating" the recession in Silicon Valley, some of my buddies in Arizona have been working on a new product. Long-time friend and client Marc Williams of Bobcat Wizards and a team of trusted advisors will launch ...READ»

Riff on the Future of Music

A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»

Riff on the Future of Music

A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»

What's Necessary to Make a Sustainable Business?

Information. Sustainability initiatives can’t succeed unless you know where you are starting out, what you are doing, and where you are going. Especially if the Obama Administration’s cap-and-trade bill becomes law, ...READ»

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Corporate Creation Myths, and Why We Need Them

Why do Americans need to attach creation myths to everything, including the origins of our most visible business ventures? We idealize the lone inventor over the company man, the garage over the office space. We tell the story of ...READ»

Seven Simple Ways to Get the Search Engines to "See" Your Site

You can't just make a web site anymore and hope people will come. You can't even blog anymore and hope people will come, although good  blogging software like Wordpress has built-in SEO (search engine optimization). You have to do ...READ»

Jumping to Conclusions:The Next Generation of the Internet, as Seen by Silicon Valley

For many reasons, I’m interested in the next generation Internet. Today I’m at Launch SIlicon Valley, watching ten companies in this space present their concepts. I haven’t finished listening, but I have already jumped ...READ»

Working in Your Skivvies Might Be For You

So what skills should a successful home-based franchisee or independent contractor/freelancer possess? Assuming we're all into working in our skivvies after all...READ»

Help Michigan: Buy What They are Going to Make

It's everyone's patriotic duty to help Michigan. We are, indeed, at war, but it's not with terrorists, it's with the worst elements of ourselves. I never thought I'd be saying this, but it  has been a powerful day for me, a ...READ»

Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the ...READ»

If You Have Traction, You Can Get Funding in a Recession

Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products. The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»

If You Have Traction, You Can Get Funding in a Recession

Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products. The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»

Minority and Disadvantaged Businesses Need to Insist on Fair Treatment From Those who Need Them

Today I delivered a web site to a small welding company in Phoenix, to whom I have served as a marketing consultant under a City-financed technical assistance program. They're the original mom and pop, and this was their first web ...READ»

Kenan Samms

User Voice Gets Funding, Grows Customer Base to the Enterprise

Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products. The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»

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