Venture Capital Prefers US Market
Venture Capital firms talk a good game when it comes to internationally diversifying their portfolio, but how aggressively do they really seek offshore investment opportunities? According to a recent study published Deloitte & Touche and the National Venture Capital Association apparently not very often. It seems that VCs feel that domestic investments are more attractive when contrasted to…
Interview with Ecademy’s Penny Power
With the unprecedented growth and undeniable success of the Blogosphere, Rupert Murdoch paying $580 million dollars to purchase MySpace, Facebook's valuation resting comfortably in excess of $1 Billion dollars, and venture capitalists tripping all over each other to fund social networking companies before the ink is even dry on their business plans there is little doubt that social networking is…
Private Equity vs. Venture Capital
Based upon numerous requests from N2Growth Blog readers and subscribers I will be publishing my advice and opinions in answer to your questions each Monday. Any questions related to the topic of business in general (Branding, Finance, Leadership, Talent Management, Marketing, Sales, PR, Strategy, etc.) are fair game. While I will do my best to accommodate as many requests as possible, the reality…
Interview with Phil Gerbyshak
One of the requests I've had of late is to begin conducting interviews with Authors, CEO's and other business personalities that would be of interest our readers. Well, ask and you shall receive....I first stumbled across Phil Gerbyshak on the blogosphere by posting a comment on an article he authored. An e-mail dialogue ensued, and a few weeks later Phil and I have learned that we have many…
How’s Your Elevator Pitch?
One of the first and most important professional communication techniques I was taught in business was the importance of developing an "Elevator Pitch" a very short statement describing what it is that you do. In fifty words or less (about 30 - 45 seconds) you should be able to communicate who you are, what you do, who you do it for, and how people benefit from what you do. What I have come to…
Casting Stones
There has been much written about the life and death of Ken Lay since he passed away. I have long made it a point not to sit in judgment of others as it is very difficult to properly connect the dots from afar. It is my belief that there are indeed at least two sides to every story and that what often times appears in the media as hard news can actually be editorial commentary that may or may not…
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