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Monday, December 23, 2024
An AI Avalanche is Coming for Google--Get Ready for a Bumpy Ride
Posted By: George Deeb - 12/23/2024I have been a serial entrepreneur for over 25 years now. Each of the businesses I built included a healthy dose of search engine marketing, ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Lesson #366: How to Sell Your Business--A Step-By-Step Guide
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/05/2024I am in the middle of a sale process for one of our portfolio companies, and I wanted to share some useful tips to ensure your sale proces...
Lesson #365: The First 100 Days With New Employees Will Dictate Success
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/05/2024You probably have heard the importance of the action plans of the “first 100 days” after a new President takes office or after you begin i...
Lesson #364: Do Major Holiday Discounts Help or Hurt Your Business?
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/05/2024What is it about Memorial Day, July 4 th , Labor Day and the Christmas season? They bring out all the big discounts, which gets shoppers...
Monday, November 4, 2024
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[VIDEO] How Strategic Partnerships Can Propel Your Business
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/04/2024I was recently interviewed by ASBN , an online "television network" serving the small business community, about how how strategic...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
What to Know About Selling Your Business
Posted By: George Deeb - 10/09/2024I am in the middle of a sale process for one of our portfolio companies, and I wanted to share some useful tips to ensure your sale process ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024
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[VIDEO] Smart Leaders Hire Smarter People Than Themselves
Posted By: George Deeb - 10/03/2024I was recently interviewed by ASBN , an online "television network" serving the small business community, about how smart leaders...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Why You Need to Pick Your Co-Founders Very Carefully
Posted By: George Deeb - 9/17/2024Picking your co-founders and other key partners could be one of the most important decisions an entrepreneur makes. Many founders simply l...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Lesson #363: Trying To Scale Your Startup? The Odds Are Not In Your Favor!
Posted By: George Deeb - 9/05/2024My colleague and serial entrepreneur, Scot Wingo , of ChannelAdvisor, Spiffy and Triangle Tweener Fund fame, recently posted on LinkedIn, ...
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[VIDEO] Why Entrepreneurs Need to Keep It Simple Stupid
Posted By: George Deeb - 9/05/2024I was recently interviewed by ASBN , an online "television network" serving the small business community, about how entrepreneu...
Thursday, August 15, 2024
The First 100 Days of Onboarding New Employees
Posted By: George Deeb - 8/15/2024You probably have heard the importance of the action plans of the "first 100 days" after a new President takes office or after y...
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Lesson #362: Firing Long-Term Employees is Hard, But May Be Necessary
Posted By: George Deeb - 8/08/2024I consulted a client that had to do something they had never done before—they had to cut a long-term employee that had been with the company...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Do Major Holiday Discounts Help or Hurt Your Business
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/25/2024What is it about Memorial Day, July 4 th , Labor Day and the Christmas season? They bring out all the big discounts, which gets shoppers ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Lesson #361: Let Ad Campaigns ‘Breathe’—Over Optimization Can Suffocate Results
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/03/2024I have been a digital marketer for over 30 years, living by the mantra of making data-driven decisions that maximize your return on ad spe...
Friday, June 7, 2024
Trying to Scale Your Startup? The Odds Are Not in Your Favor!
Posted By: George Deeb - 6/07/2024My colleague and serial entrepreneur, Scot Wingo , of ChannelAdvisor, Spiffy and Triangle Tweener Fund fame, recently posted on LinkedIn, ho...
Monday, June 3, 2024
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[VIDEO] A 'Fresh Set of Eyes' Can Help Turnaround Struggling Businesses
Posted By: George Deeb - 6/03/2024I was recently interviewed by ASBN , an online "television network" serving the small business community, about how a "fresh...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Lesson #360: How to Survive a Difficult VC Funding Environment
Posted By: George Deeb - 5/22/2024CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the ven...
Friday, May 10, 2024
Firing a Long-Term Employee is Hard — But Often Necessary. Here's Why.
Posted By: George Deeb - 5/10/2024I consulted a client that had to do something they had never done before—they had to cut a long-term employee that had been with the compa...
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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[VIDEO] How to Define What is an Entrepreneur?
Posted By: George Deeb - 4/04/2024I was recently interviewed by ASBN , an online "television network" serving the small business community, about how to define wha...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Lesson #359: How to Cut Dead Weight Out of Your Business
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/06/2024In business, you need to be running as efficiently as possible. But, I have seen many businesses carrying a lot of “dead weight”, which i...
Lesson #358: Revenues Lost is More Important to Measure Than Revenues Won
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/06/2024Revenues, and resulting profits therefrom, is often the primary metric that businesses use to measure their success. I would argue there is...
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