Trevor Morgan discusses how to manage the billing and collection process. He observes that companies would need to borrow considerably less if they understood how to work with their customers to improve the payment cycle. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Bank lending expert David Enquist of Business Lending Solutions talks about the tight credit climate and how to approach Chicago area banks to get a loan today. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Interview with Tom Meyer
Interview with Don Leighton
Tom Meyer, an SBA loan specialist with Wells Fargo Bank, describes the SBA loan programs and how to apply for an SBA loan to buy or build a business. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Don Leighton, Sr. VP Lending, First Midwest Bank, talks about what businesses should be looking for in a bank, how companies can increase the odds of obtaining a bank loan today, and what bankers are looking for and are most concerned about in loans today. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Working with Angel Investors and Venture Capital Firms
Sam Guren and Ira Weiss discuss the roles of angel investor groups and venture capital firms in financing small companies. Sam has been leading VC organizations in Chicago for three decades. Ira is a professor at Chicago Booth. Courtesy of Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Robert Sutton: Bringing Creativity into an Organization
Interview with Hal Varian
Bob Sutton, author and professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering, talks about what it takes for creative work to happen. It is probably not what you think. Courtesy of Stanford University.
Hal Varian believes that we are entering a time that will see great innovation. He compares the current era with some prior periods when technological advances provided inventors with new tools that they could combine in many different ways - launching a major wave of invention. Hal is professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and serves as Google's chief economist. Courtesy of Google, Inc.
Ideas Come From Everywhere
Interview with Sydney Finkelstein
Marissa Mayer, who led the product management efforts on Google's search products, notes that "Ideas Come from Everywhere" even at Google. From eCorner, Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Center.
'Good executives fail. The best learn from failure." Sydney Finkelstein, Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, discusses how the best leaders accept failure and learn from it. Dartmouth Tuck School of Business. Courtesy of Beet TV.
The Secret to Kicking Procrastination: Reward Yourself
Everyone has a tendency to procrastinate especially when the benefits of doing something today that is difficult will not be realized until well into the future. Dan Ariely, author of "Predicably Irrational" and a Professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business provides a way to kick procrastination. Courtesy of Big Think.com.
Clayton Christensen: on how to benefit from a down market
Surviving in Hard Times: Strategies & Principles
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Professor of Business Administration and author of "The Innovator's Prescription", talks about how businesses can use the recession for their benefit and what people to lay off in a recession. Courtesy of "The Independent".
Russ Wilson and Kelley Krowczyk of the CPA firm of Porte Brown outline strategies and principles for surviving in hard times. Courtesy of Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Pricing and Margin Improvement: Best Practices in Difficult
Economic Times
Patrick Manning of Vendavo, Inc. a leading consulting firm focusing on pricing, outlines steps that businesses can take to resist downward pricing pressure and preserve margins in a downturn. Courtesy of Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
An Interview with Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard University. Porter's five competitive forces is the basis for much of modern business strategy. Understand the framework and how to put it into practice. Courtesy of Harvard Business School.
In his new book entitled "Free", Chris Anderson suggests that the cost of bandwith, storage and computer processing are declining so rapidly that they will become effectively free. In this interview, he discusses the implications. Courtesy of Wired.com.
Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of
the Competition
Identifying "The Long Tail" - Chris Anderson
In his book "Create Marketplace Disruption", Adam Hartung says that businesses can only maintain superior performance if they are constantly disrupting the market with new business models, technologies and changes in consumer buying habits. Courtesy of Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
In 2004, Chris Anderson introduced the concept of the “long tail” and the notion that, through the internet and other distribution networks, vendors could make money focusing on niches that traditional retailers could not profitably address. Courtesy of "ForaTV".
Finding Bank Financing in Chicago Today with David Enquist, Business Lending Solutions - October 15, 2009
Credit Problems Create Growth
Opportunities with George Petrulis, Kensington Partners, former
Chairman of the M&A Source - October 29, 2009
David Enquist knows the Chicago market for commercial bank loans. His livelihood depends on finding bank loans for mid-sized companies. We ask David what questions to ask bankers today and how to convince them to provide a loan to your business. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
With many businesses facing financial problems, opportunities
abound for companies to grow through acquisition and for
troubled companies to find partners rather than to liquidate or
file for bankruptcy. Join Exceptional Entrepreneur as we host a
free webinar to help you learn how to take advantage of these
opportunities. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Preparing to Sell Your Company with David Jackson and Bruce Leech - November 5, 2009
Making Innovation an On-Going Process
Bruce Leech and David Jackson, two former business owners themselves, have talked with many former business owners about how they handled their transition, what worked well and what didn’t. From those talks, they have gleaned important keys to successful transitions for those selling their business. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Innovation is one of the keys to success for a company of any size, especially for small and mid-sized businesses. It is our pleasure to feature Praveen Gupta, one of the world’s thought leaders in innovation. Very practical and down-to-earth, he views innovation as something that is not just for technical people and engineers but for everyone in your company. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
Ten Keys to the Successful Sale of a Business
Very capable business people often approach the sale of their business with less formality than the sale of a home. Join Exceptional Entrepreneur as we host a free Webinar featuring Dave Kauppi, an expert on corporate finance and business intermediary services for entrepreneurs and middle market companies. Exclusive Exceptional Entrepreneur interview. If video is slow, try turning off HD.
