Leveraging LinkedIn!

Guy Kawasaki writes 10 great ways to use LinkedIn to help your business. LinkedIn has become an integral part of the fabric of the business web. Over 8 million users and growing with connections growing stronger every day. Use any or all of these ideas to energize your company!

Welcome to 2009!

Happy New Year! 2008 is history, and many are happy to have it become history! The economy and the election dominated the news in the last quarter — but now we are off to a fresh start. Here’s a few newsworthy items to consider!

There are plenty of lists to consider in the New Year. Guy Kawasaki suggests Ten Tiny Things Every Small Business Owner Should Do in 2009. Click here and scroll down in the American Express OPEN Forum!

If your venture-backed company went public this year, you were part of a very small group of seven. These seven comapnies generated $551 Million in liquidity — the lowest in 5 years. Here’s a summary from the Yahoo Finance!. Read more…

The National Venture Capital Association published their Q4 2009 survey with over 400 members participating. Needless to say, the outlook is very conservative at best. Read more at NVCA Annual Survey Forecasts Challenges for Venture Industry in 2009!

The Blog “Small Business Labs” generated the list of Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2009 featuring economic, demographic and tecnology trends. Read more here!

2009 will challenge us in many ways. As Richard Currier, marketing guru at the Park City Marketing Institute,  has always said, “You can’t shrink your way to greatness!” Start innovating your way out of this recession and into success!

ShareThis Makes it to Round 1 of Mashable Open Web Awards

Thanks to all ShareThis fans who nominated them for two categories in Mashable’s Open Web Awards this year.  They have been entered in the Blog Plugin category as well as the Social Bookmarking category. Today the voting starts and continues until December 15. And just like Chicago, you can vote early and ofter — at least once per day!

To make it easy to vote, just click here to use ShareThis voting widgets on their blog!

GK to Speak Live Today Nov 18 5pm EST

Guy Kawasaki will speak LIVE today on his new book! Whether or not you believe in shameless self-promotion, the conversation is always valuable — and to the point.

To register, click here!

Guy's new book!

Cincinnati Companies Nominated for Open Web Award

The Mashable 2nd Annual Open Web Awards is accepting nominations for awards in various categories! ShareThis, PimpMyNews.com, and ZipScene have all been nominated, but we need your votes to put Cincinnati on Mashable’s web map!

Nominate ShareThis by going to the ShareThis blog and completing the ballot.

Nominate PimpMyNews by going to the PimpMyNews blog and completing the ballot.

For ZipScene, go to Mashable.com and complete the ballots there!

Let’s bring home some winners and show the world that Ohio is indeed a critical voting state!

GK’s Extreme Makeover

Presentation fans — here’s another great blog on communicating better and better! Guy Kawasaki who has set the bar high for startup pitches has asked Nancy Duarte to “work her magic” on his PowerPoint presentation. Take a look at the before and after — as well as Nancy’s notes on the strategy for improving presentations.

If the master can improve, so can we! Click here to Read More..

Technorati Tags: Startup, entrepreneur, venture capital, angel investing

GK Plan B for Funding

Another GK alert! Not all of Guy Kawasaki’s blog entries are gems — but lately most of them speak sovereign truths! On American Express Open Forum, Guy speaks of a Plan B for Funding that is 180 degrees out of phase with the usual approach. You must read it and if you can do it, maybe it should be your plan A! Click here to Read More…

Technorati Tags: Startup, entrepreneur, venture capital, angel investing

GK’s World’s Best Presentations

There is no doubt that Guy Kawasaki has raised the bar for all startup presentations to the moon! Wouldn’t it be great to have all powerpoint presentations at this level!!!

Enough said — take a look — enjoy — and then start redoing your decks!

World’s Best Presentations

And for more study — check out Garr Reynold’s Top Ten Slide Tips and the rest of his site on Presentation Zen — the new Bible of Presentation Skills!

InOneWeekend 2008 Keynote Part I

Roy Gilbert, Director of Global Operations for Google, kicked off the 2008 InOneWeekend event in Cincinnati! 100 people, 3 days, 1 startup

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by InOneWeekend with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

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