Stealthmode Partners has been working with the Kauffman Foundation since 2003, as a regional center for its Fasttrac Entrepreneurial Education program. On Friday, Jan. 29, the Foundation issued a large report ...READ»
I'm probably the only person in Phoenix who doesn't define herself as a social media guru. After all, I have helped hundreds of companies get started using various tools over the past ten years, and if it's one thing I have ...READ»
You think it takes a village to raise a child? Well, sometimes it takes a city to support an entrepreneur. After ten years of helping entrepreneurs, I've become more and more convinced that the best way to start and grow a ...READ»
Eleanor's Garden is the dream of a friend of mine who has been in the earth moving business and decided he'd like to make it possible for people to garden in containers and small spaces. He devised a patent-pending drainage ...READ»
(Crossposted to my Stealthmode Blog)I asked Bill Gurley whether a
new model for early stage funding would emerge now that the VC industry
is "slimming down" (perhaps shrinking by 50%) due to the rebalancing of
university ...READ»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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, which seems ...READ»
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 ...READ»
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»
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, ...READ»
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»
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»
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»
