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Weekly Twitter Chat for #StartNorfolk?

11 May

So the long and very energetic weekend that was #StartNorfolkhas now ended. Now What? What’s Next? What to do? Well hopefully the top three winners are hard at work already! Well what about the rest of us including the three winning teams.  Well I have an idea for kick starting a weekly twitter chat.  Now [...]

Lethal combination of books for any business! #startnorfolk

27 Apr

Since I am heading off to #StartNorfolk in a couple hours wanted to share some info with the folks that will be there this weekend to consider picking up this lethal combination of business books as they kick off their business dreams! I have read 3 and half of these books (Meghan and Nancy still [...]

Are you coming to #StartNorfolk 2.0? Sign Up Now!

22 Apr

    Start Norfolk 2.0 will be held at the Ted Constant Convocation Center located on the campus of Old Dominion University on Friday, April 27th through Sunday, April 29th. On top of the startup competition, there will be 11 speakers including: Aneesh Chopra, the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer, Anis Uzzaman, CEO and General [...]

Change Executors vs NaySayers

24 Jan

In running your business, project, or strategy where do you focus: 1. Time 2. Energy 3. Rewards 4. Attention 5. Resources So this is a fundamental path you and your company are going to need to examine for moving into the next evolution of business.  Will you be accepting mediocrity, status quo, and “well that [...]

2011 The Year of 52 Phone Calls #yearof52calls

30 Dec

One of my 2011 goals was to find a new way to deepen online relationships.  Since some of the people I wanted to chat with are not within the cities I lived in, in 2011 I had to overcome location. So I wanted to try a different channel, what I came up with was “The [...]

Whoa what a 2011

29 Dec

So I have never done a wrap up of a year post before, but I thought back on 2011 and actually wanted to write it down! So here goes, this is what happened to me in 2011 and hoping 2012 is just as exciting…it may be hard to top!   1. I worked at 3 [...]

The First Social Salsa: How relationships make dreams come true

20 Oct

  The other day I received an email from of that really warmed my heart (no I was not eating his salsa at the time, more on that further on). Finally a story about how you leverage personal relationships and the social interwebs to make an idea come to life. Todd has been experimenting with [...]

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