Blogs

A stealth company has been busy working on a new online service.

Your MyAdvisor Garage gives you the ability to create your own personalized summary of the Advisor Garage site, other sites via RSS feeds and add 'droplets' such as Top Tech Blogs, Facebook, Twitte

Try this tool to create an elevator pitch for you and / or your business.

Would appreciate your feedback after using the tool.

http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/handg/pitch/index.html

Andrew

I posted a description of my startup "Flixor" in the "Businesses Looking for Investors" forum here.

As a home business owner, you will be faced with many obstacles. One of the most unexpected challenges for many home business owners is the feeling of isolation. New and seasoned home business owners encounter feelings of being isolated from the rest of the world, and even loneliness, at some point during their careers. The quiet home office is certainly a change from a populated office space at previous jobs.

Many of us have never learned to use the telephone properly. Even those of us who are a bit seasoned and have used the phone as a primary form of communication for work and personal matters don’t always use the best telephone etiquette. There are some major dos and don’ts regarding using the telephone, whether you are receiving a phone call or making one.  Correct telephone technique is essential, as often the first impression someone has of you is based upon a telephone conversation.

Are you looking for a unique business idea? As you'll soon discover, new business ideas are everywhere! You just need to know how to cultivate them. By following a few simple steps you can generate tons of good business ideas during the course of a single day. Your only challenge at that point will be deciding which business to start! Here are some fast ways to generate good business ideas::

Last week we formally kicked off our fund raising efforts. We met with three top tier, Sand Hill Road VC's on one day. It just sort of worked out that way. The killer part of the day was that we received very positive responses from all three VC's. The first one, names withheld, listened for an hour and then told us that he would like a copy of my preso to show at the Monday partner meeting.

The second VC listened for an hour and then took the action item to introduce us to one of his portfolio companies to do due diligence on our business model and technology.

The Advisor Garage Community offers entrepreneurs, advisors, angels and VCs the opportunity to connect, ask questions and help each other with their businesses through Groups, Blogs, Forums and much more.  

We have just added the 'People' Tab to help members connect, link together and communicate via our built in private messaging.  The People section can be searched by member type and includes member photos and a click through to your personal page. Each person's personal page includes the ability to private message or 'connect' with that person so you can build your entrepreneurial network.

Please update your personal page and include your favorite photo.

Hopefully you read the previous post “Create that Winning Startup Idea” and tried one of the following suggestions for coming up with your personal ‘Winning Startup Idea’.

Just as a reminder:

1. Bookmark/Search this post with:

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

The PICNIC Green Challenge calls on creative, innovative minds to come up with concrete solutions to fight climate change. Anyone with a good idea for a product or service that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in a consumer-friendly way and contributes to a sustainable lifestyle is welcome to take part.

Bookmark/Search this post with:

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Want to start a business? Have the necessary passion to start a new business but are unsure where to start? Looking for that new, innovative, winning new business idea?

Bookmark/Search this post with:

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

This is a guest posting by Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, a company that enables people to buy homes online.

Bookmark/Search this post with:

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Advisor Garage offers free classified ads to all members of the Advisor Garage community - Recruiting? Need something? Want to sell something?

Post a free classified ad today!

http://www.advisorgarage.com/community/node/add/ed-classified

Trying to see if everyone would like to get together for a some social/networking. Would like to get a social entrepreneurial vibe going that is based on technology and design. Please email me with any ideas on where we can hold such an event. Maybe we could have various people come up and do a short 5-10 min presentation on a project they have worked on or are currently working.

Bookmark/Search this post with:

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I've noticed that this blog insists on changing the fonts for me (for example, the end of the longest entry above) and I don't see any way to change it back at all. After several attempts to correct this with no success, I have given up. If anyone knows why it does this, or more importantly, how to prevent it, any tips would be appreciated.

After posting the previous two entries, and being more than a little blog challenged, it seemed like it might be a good idea to use this blog to document my journey at AG, whatever the outcome, especially since it forces me to attempt to state my thoughts as clearly and concisely as possible in something remotely resembling my native language.