Gordon Logan - Sport Clips
Gordon talks about Sport Clips and the success of the franchise model he built.
David Allen - Getting Things Done
David talks about GTD and how it can help you, your business, and your success.
Chris Babel - TRUSTe
Chris provides great information about online privacy and what you can do for your business.
May21
Founded by Kirk Gray, 10 Fold Consulting helps small business owners increase profitability by leveraging an asset they already have – their staff.
Kirk has helped dozens of small businesses in different market segments increase their new customer generation, sales and profitability by working with their staff to reduce lost telephone and web leads and improve marketing ROI.
MO: What inspired you to launch your own consulting firm? Have you always had an entrepreneurial spirit?
May17
Dr. Susan Kolb, board certified in plastic surgery in 1985, and is also one of the founders of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (2000). Dr. Kolb published “The Naked Truth About Breast Implants” in 2009 when the center became the expert facility for surgical and medical treatment of breast implant illness. She has also been featured on The Today Show and in People Magazine, as well as on CNN’s Talkback Live.
Plastikos Plastic & Reconstruction Surgery and Plastikos Surgery Center were founded in 1995 to help patients with difficult problems find answers. Several years later, Millennium Healthcare, an integrated holistic medical practice, was added along with Avatar Cancer Center, to help patients with cancer, breast implant toxicity, patients with chemical toxicity from burns and work exposure, and difficult hand injuries.
Plastikos is the only center of its kind in the United States that combines traditional and integrative medicine with both medical and surgical treatment in one location.
MO: What inspired you to launch the Plastikos Surgery Center and can you talk about some of the challenges of creating a one of a kind facility?
May15
BestWork DATA’s leadership team is headed by Chuck Russell, a leading authority on business applications for assessment technology for over twenty years. Author of Right Person – Right Job, Guess or Know, Chuck has pioneered a new understanding of the practical power of solid DATA to transform the human resources of a business in ways never before imagined.
The BestWork Data service tells you how people think, learn, and behave. This is accomplished by a 25 minute online experience that measures cognitive abilities and hard wired personality traits. The data from this is used to help companies make better hiring decisions, manage their employees, train their employees, and a host of other applications.
In addition to their B2B BestWork service, they also have two sister divisions. Jobthoughts provides career and job search information for the job seeker and Students & College is for the high school and college student giving them insights into college choices, majors, and how their strengths parlay into various jobs.
MO: How did you come up with the concept for BestWork Data?
May9
Kimberly Childs and Heather Wagner represent majority, minority, and equal owners of privately held businesses in disputes with their fellow business partners.
Kimberly Childs represents business owners whose business partnerships are no longer viable. Her practice focuses on negotiating and litigating the break-up of multi-owner privately held businesses.
A leader in her field, Kimberly has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine for the past four years (2009 to 2012) and a Legal Elite by Georgia Trend magazine. Additionally, she currently serves on the Cobb County Bar Association Board of Trustees.
MO: What are some of the most common reasons you see business partnerships breakdown?
Mar5
Radhika Subramanian, is a serial entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of experience helping large, sophisticated organizations achieve competitive advantage through advanced analytics technologies. She co-founded Idmon Corp. in 1998, which was funded by Cordova Ventures and Imlay Investments.
Numerous associations have recognized Radhika for her achievements working with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. She is recognized as a Leading Woman in Technology by WIT, was a finalist for the Franz Edelman Prize in Excellence in Management Science, and more. A sought-after presenter and speaker, she is a regular contributor to many publications including Forbes.
Emcien’s automatic pattern-detection engine converts data to actionable insight that organizations can use immediately. Emcien breaks through time, cost and scale barriers that limit the ability to operationalize the value of data for mission-critical applications.
Radhika Subramanian, is a serial entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of experience helping large, sophisticated organizations achieve competitive advantage through advanced analytics technologies. She co-founded Idmon Corp. in 1998, which was funded by Cordova Ventures and Imlay Investments.
Numerous associations have recognized Radhika for her achievements working with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. She is recognized as a Leading Woman in Technology by WIT, was a finalist for the Franz Edelman Prize in Excellence in Management Science, and more. A sought-after presenter and speaker, she is a regular contributor to many publications including Forbes.
Emcien’s automatic pattern-detection engine converts data to actionable insight that organizations can use immediately. Emcien breaks through time, cost and scale barriers that limit the ability to operationalize the value of data for mission-critical applications.
MO: Where does your strong entrepreneurial spirit come from? Have there been any specific influences or early inspirations that have helped shape your path?
Sep26
Varsity Tutors is an at-home academic tutoring & test prep service with over 1,000 tutors and operations in 14 metro areas. They’re growing like crazy because they offer the highest caliber tutors at an affordable rate in the comfort of your own home.
MO: Can you talk about finding the courage to quit your high paying venture capital job that you had worked very hard to get to become a bootstrapped entrepreneur?
Aug20
Chike Uzoka is the Founder & CEO of Valentine Global – a consulting firm that specializes in Entrepreneurship workshops, games, and curricula for kids, teens, and adults. He has clients that are schools, non-profits, camps, and companies in NJ, NY, PA, California, and Atlanta, GA. He is also Co-founder of Real People Motors – a worldwide community of car and automotive enthusiasts.
His first book, ‘The Young Man’s Guide to Entrepreneurship: 16 Things You Need to Know’ can be found on Amazon.
MO: What inspired you to launch Valentine Global?
Jul9
“Power plus passion increases your potential™,” proclaims award winning speaker Angela Ray. As CEO of Mahogany Dime™ LLC, she knows this to be true. Her work as a motivational speaker, actress and writer, has afforded her the opportunity to touch the lives of thousands across the country. Angela’s primary focus through the company is to help people reach their goals through life changing seminars, real life performances, and publishing works that uplift and inspire. The company’s signature gala is the Mahogany Dime™ Awards, an annual ceremony that honors the achievements of African American women from across North Carolina
Mahogany Dime LLC is a consulting company with an artistic edge. With a primary focus on speaking to college students, the company’s goal is to invest in the next generation.
MO: What inspired your decision to launch Mahogany Dime?
Jul6
written by MO.com Subject Matter Expert Ruth King
I wish that I had said that because it sums up what I’ve always believed and taught: you can’t make rational decisions when you are emotional.
“When you become angry you become stupid” was said by Dr. Ned Hallowell on the May, 2012 Success Magazine audio CD. He feels, as I do, that to make good decisions you have to get emotion out of the decision.
When you first find alarming things that your financial statements are telling you, you might not believe them, you might get angry, you may feel like you’ve been kicked in the stomach. If you find someone has been stealing from you, your initial emotions totally overtake your rational thought. If one of your personnel does something totally stupid, you get angry.
My rule has always been to…
May18
written by MO.com Subject Matter Resource Ruth King
All businesses must grow or they will eventually die. Why? Business costs go up each year. Suppliers demand more for their products, employees want raises, gasoline prices increase. If you continue to sell to the same customers at the same prices your company will become less profitable year after year and eventually go out of business.
Your company must become more productive; raise your prices, or both to survive. If you choose to grow at the rate of inflation, that’s okay. Growth is serving the same number of customers and simply raising prices. The company is stagnant with respect to the bottom line profits.
Another way to look at this: your company must be more productive the same percentage as the rate of inflation. If inflation increased one percent, your company must be one percent more productive to stay even.
May17
written by MO.com Subject Matter Resource Dr. Dwayne D. Jakes
Small Businesses face the same challenges and expectations as large corporations in providing continuous process improvements to their clients. Total Quality Management (TQM), Total Quality Management can be described as managing the business so that it excels on all dimensions of products and services that are important to the client. It has two objectives: 1. Careful design of the product and service. 2. Ensuring that the business systems can consistently produce the design.
Many organizations prefer levering Six Sigma as their continuous process improvement tools. What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a highly disciplined process that helps organizations focus on developing and delivering near perfect products and services. The word is a statistical term that measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. To achieve Six Sigma Quality a process must produce no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities (DPMO).
At its core Six Sigma centers on these key concepts.
