Hey, thanks for dropping by my personal blog. I don’t have much time for it since I started publishing FemaleEntrepreneurs last weekend. This blog has been a wonderful “here” for me. For those of you who talk to me about my blog, come up to me and comment on it, and […]
I got an email today from a young healthcare tech entrepreneur. Since her question would help other entrepreneurs too, she kindly allowed me to republish some of today’s correspondence here . . . I’ve lightly edited it to protect privacy. “I took your advice on speaking at conferences after that awesome […]
In the last 24 business hours, I’ve met with eight different early stage companies. I was privileged to get a deep dive from each one of their founding teams. Stream of consciousness here, most of them have some challenges with the customer acquisition process. That comes with the territory–if sales […]
Creation comes with risk. CEOs and founders are in the jump seat of making the call on risk –and opportunity–for their companies. So are those who climb in with them to co-pilot brands, like marketing directors. When they get the call for their perspective, they can take the risk and […]
I used to be the kind of person who feels at home almost everywhere. I was proud of this chameleon-like trick, until I realized I was never completely at home, anywhere. I could act at home volunteering with AIDS patients. Taking a skittish horse through a new situation. Learning a new language. […]
Last year about this time, I was itching for my next “new experience.” My company had grown, our team was great–by golly, I was gonna “do something fun.” I checked my handy-dandy spreadsheet of wild and wooly things to make happen. An”oldie but goodie” from five years ago caught my eye–a trip to […]
Last night I had the pleasure of getting some good friends together to share something really important: feedback. A friend of friend is building a one man show, and performing it to small groups. His name is Sean. After the hour-long monologue, Sean then asks questions, like: What’s stands out? […]
Today was a day of firsts. I got to spend my first afternoon on a golf course not attending a tournament or a fundraiser, but actually on the golf course. It was such a restful experience–long on silence, sunset and friendly repartee–just the perfect kind of day. I’m thinking about how […]
The reason I picked the self-publishing path is simple–I didn’t have a platform for my topic. I didn’t realize that. In shopping the book idea for How You Rule The World around, I got a lot of feedback from top editors. The agents and editors who spoke with me were behind some […]
Fear governs greatness. Over time, I’ve realized that my fears have prodded me forward. They’re my friends. Yet when they were too great to bear, they held me back. Speaking as an entrepreneur and the daughter of an entrepreneur, I’d like to speak honestly about something we business leaders often […]