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06.14.18
The Second Generation Family Curse
Family-owned businesses face a steeper incline than most companies. According to Entrepreneur.com, only 30 percent of family-owned businesses survive into the second generation, and only 12 percent make it to the third. It might seem at times the same reasons that can drive their growth can also result in their demise. What do I mean? […]
Read More06.12.18
Mentoring that Matters: 4 Tips to Guide You
There is such positive energy at The NIIC and so many opportunities to expand knowledge, connect with entrepreneurs, and learn from the best and brightest. Like our recent Mentoring—Making a BIG Difference Workshop, made possible by Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC) and Fort Wayne SCORE and led by Toni Widman and Jackie Delagrange, Integrated Talent Jobs—all experts in talent development. I have served as […]
Read More06.11.18
Building community through volunteering
I recently had the pleasure of getting out of my element, literally and figuratively – and it was phenomenal. Enter Women Build 2018. Dedicated teams of women convene to help Habitat for Humanity families build strength, stability, and independence through homeownership. This can take several forms, like fundraising, advocacy, and physically helping to build houses on behalf of hardworking […]
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Invention Doesn’t Always Lead to Innovation: Celebrating Local Success
A 2016 Forbes article makes clear it is not how much you spend on R&D that makes you innovative but how you spend to address both technical and market risk. The handy math is: innovation = invention + customer value + business model. Location, as they say, is everything not only in real estate but in innovation, […]
Read More05.30.18
What I learned at The 2018 ACA Summit in Boston
The movie Jerry Maguire and its character Rod Tidwell remind us of what happens when you are unhappy with your existing contract. He jumps up and down uttering the words “show me the money” and asks Jerry to repeat the same words to ensure he is on the same page. “Show me the money”, in the angel capital world, reminds […]
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