Beat Waste Start Up Challenge
June 3, 2010 by Dr. Letitia Wright
Filed under A Note for You, Featured Articles, Front Page
The Beat Waste Startup Challenge is a competition offering $25,000 in cash prizes for businesses and social enterprises that reduce or eliminate waste. It is sponsored by Adventure Ecology, organizers of the Plastiki expedition. The challenge is for early stage ventures seeking funding to grow.
All you need to enter is an elevator pitch and a brief 200 word description (see full brief for details). Crowd voting helps determine the winning entries, and you can find out more about voting here.
THE PRIZE $25,000! Read more
How a Fault can Unlock a Vault
September 14, 2009 by Dr. Letitia Wright
Filed under Featured Articles, Wright Ideas
This article is inspired by Robert Caldini and in work on influence. Readers will find tips on how to be more influential in business by increasing their trustworthiness.
Venture Capital Money For You?
April 20, 2009 by Dr. Letitia Wright
Filed under Wright Ideas
Venture Capitalist Money is down 61%. So where are we going to get new money to start businesses? People how have gotten venture capital before more likely to get it again. Where are these people and how do you get to them?
One of the best books I have read to explain the entire venture capitalist game is Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki. This is a 400+page book which explains the game to regular folks. This is where you need to be fully engaged and ready to rock. If you are not ready for the opportunity, you won’t get it.
The old days of getting a bunch of credit cards does not work that well. Banks are changing names, closing accounts and basically are making it difficult to work with them. The SBA has new programs however most are not funded yet. Read more
