Posts by Ryan

Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings

Posted on Nov 30, 2014 in Entrepreneur, Small Business, Small Business Tips and Tricks Series, Success, Tips for Entrepreneurs | Comments Off on Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings

Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings   Drake Baer, Business Insider writer and entrepreneurship expert, shares some fantastic principles from a few of today’s top execs on how to conduct meetings. Here are a few excerpts from his article (full version here):   Opsware CEO and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz likes to have one-to-one meetings. Horowitz, who spends much of his time mentoring young leaders, says that most important job for a CEO is to architect the way people communicate in a company. The one-to-one meeting is essential to that process, he says, as...

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SWOT Analysis

Posted on Nov 26, 2014 in Entrepreneur, Setting up a Small Business, Small Business, Small Business Tips and Tricks Series, Tips for Entrepreneurs | Comments Off on SWOT Analysis

When your car starts to make funny noises and quits running well, what do you do? You either stop to do a check-up or you take it to a mechanic. But what about when your business is struggling and you’re not meeting your goals? That’s where SWOT analysis comes in. SWOT analysis is a method used to understand the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats of a company and provides both a high level and in depth look at internal and external factors; a sort of business “check-up.” Investopedia says: “The method of SWOT analysis is to take the information from an environmental...

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Baby Steps: Personal Finance

Posted on Nov 1, 2014 in Success | Comments Off on Baby Steps: Personal Finance

Baby Steps: Personal Finance   Money. One word with lot’s of emotions behind it. Today, we’d like to change gears a bit and talk about personal finance. Here are what Dave Ramsey calls the 7 baby steps to financial peace:   1: Get an emergency fund Save up $1,000 for when those emergencies happen. It’s not a matter of if they will happen… it’s a matter of when. If your income is $20,000 or below then you can start out with an emergency fund of $500.   2: Get out of debt This is probably one of the hardest things for people because we think it’s...

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