Small Business Advising And Mentoring
Innovation Uncensored: Top 10 Steps to Success
I had the awesome opportunity to attend Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored gathering in downtown San Francisco yesterday – and man, what a day! Besides hearing about the latest and greatest innovations from folks like David Cush (CEO, Virgin America) and John Donahoe (CEO Ebay), we heard inspiring stories about how groups like Livestrong, Water.org, Cinequest […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail
One of the least understood aspects of entrepreneurship is why small businesses fail, and there’s a simple reason for the confusion: Most of the evidence comes from the entrepreneurs themselves. I have had a close-up view of numerous business failures — including a few start-ups of my own. And from my observation, the reasons for […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Five things I learned yesterday about online marketing at PCV
Yesterday, Chase and I attended a ’25 Ways to Market your Website’ seminar through the SF Non-Profit Leadership Series. Here is what I thought the five most interesting take-aways were: 1) Content is STILL king. There is no replacement for creating and putting out meaningful content, dialogue and interesting ways of engaging your audience. 2) […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Advised Company Heath Ceramics Expands into SF
“It’s true… we’ve signed a long-term lease for manufacturing, warehouse and retail space in San Francisco’s vibrant and creative Northeast Mission Neighborhood. Tile will be made here moving forward, but you’ll be able to touch, feel and buy all Heath products in our accompanying retail space. We’re excited and we hope you are too. Our […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
PCV Advised Company Parties That Cook’s 12 Tips on ‘The Recipe For Business Success’
Twelve years ago, I left my corporate job to fulfill my lifelong dream of attending professional cooking school. Now I run Parties That Cook, a mobile culinary events company that stages hands-on cooking parties and corporate team-building events in four cities. We grew to a staff of over 100 by following this recipe for business […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
A Little Advice on Advising
I recently came across an article in the Boston Business Journal about how few entrepreneurs 1) seek out advice from experienced business people or 2) don’t make good use of the advice they may have received. It seems like what this author is writing about is very relevant to our small business advising network! The […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
A New Matching Loan Program Open To Our Entrepreneurs
Our partner Kiva Zip is teaming up with LISC to provide more loans and expand financial opportunities to the small businesses in our network! This partnership means that small business borrowers endorsed by PCV will only have to raise half of the total loan amount from the crowd on the Kiva Zip website. LISC will […]