Showing posts with label venture capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label venture capital. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2014
Why No One In Their Right Mind would CROWDFUND
NEVER CROWDFUND
1) Equity Crowdfunding is a Felony.
2) Donation-based Crowdfunding is for Non-Pofits
It will only get you in trouble unless you are a non-profit. One of my friends is former SEC Comissioner and happens to teach Law at George Washington. The SEC & IRS send their attorneys to him for their continuing Ed Credits. Because they are his students, they tell him what's coming from their agencies.
A for-profit that accepts donations, must pay 50% in taxes to the IRS. This isn't being done. They are just letting that pile up and they are going to start levying bank accounts. They don't have to make any announcements because the laws have been on the books and KNOWN for decades.
KickStarter & IndieGoGo aren't culpable because they state in the agreements that you sign, that you are responsible.... but who reads those things, right?
Next, there is quite a bit of fraud in crowdfunding... people raise money, then never follow through. You only hear about the big wins but for each dollar that makes it for good, there are $42 that go down the tubes and taken out of the economy.
Would you like access to legal Capital Resources? Are you seeking the monies for other valuable resources for your business?
Consider CEO Space: The world's oldest, largest & most successful network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors.
CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tiny Angels
Crowdfunding for businesses
- CEO Space http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
- 40billion http://www.40billion.com/
- appbackr http://www.appbackr.com/
- capangel http://www.capangel.com/
- cofundit http://www.cofundit.com/
- crowdcube http://www.crowdcube.com/
- crowdfund http://www.crowdfunding.c
- digital garage http://digitalgarage.co.z
- globeforum http://www.globeforum.com
- growvc http://www.growvc.com/mai
- innovatrs http://innovatrs.com/
- investiere http://www.investiere.ch/
- podium ventures http://podiumfunds.com/
- profounder http://www.profounder.com
- raisecapital http://www.raisecapital.c
- seedups http://www.seedups.com/
- seedmatch http://www.seedmatch.de/
- trampoline http://crowdfunding.tramp
- vencorps http://www.vencorps.com/
- venture bonsai http://www.venturebonsai.
- wealthforge http://www.wealthforgeonl
- wiseed http://www.wiseed.fr/wick
- FriendsClear http://www.friendsclear.c
- 33needs http://33needs.com/
Crowdfunding for non-business projects
- kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.co
- Indiegogo http://www.indiegogo.com/
- crowdfunder http://www.crowdfunder.co
- peerbackers http://peerbackers.com/
- chipin http://www.chipin.com/
- fundable http://www.fundable.com/
- citizen effect http://www.citizeneffect.
- revenue trades http://www.revolutiontrad
- rockethub http://www.rockethub.com/
- sonicangel http://www.sonicangel.com
- spot http://www.spot.us
- startnext http://www.startnext.de/
- ulule http://www.ulule.com/
- cofundos http://www.cofundos.org/
- buzzbnk http://www.buzzbank.org/
- biracy http://www.biracy.com/
- investedin http://invested.in/
- haricot http://haricot.ca
- CEO Space http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
- 40billion http://www.40billion.com/
- appbackr http://www.appbackr.com/
- capangel http://www.capangel.com/
- cofundit http://www.cofundit.com/
- crowdcube http://www.crowdcube.com/
- crowdfund http://www.crowdfunding.c
- digital garage http://digitalgarage.co.z
- globeforum http://www.globeforum.com
- growvc http://www.growvc.com/mai
- innovatrs http://innovatrs.com/
- investiere http://www.investiere.ch/
- podium ventures http://podiumfunds.com/
- profounder http://www.profounder.com
- raisecapital http://www.raisecapital.c
- seedups http://www.seedups.com/
- seedmatch http://www.seedmatch.de/
- trampoline http://crowdfunding.tramp
- vencorps http://www.vencorps.com/
- venture bonsai http://www.venturebonsai.
- wealthforge http://www.wealthforgeonl
- wiseed http://www.wiseed.fr/wick
- FriendsClear http://www.friendsclear.c
- 33needs http://33needs.com/
Crowdfunding for non-business projects
- kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.co
- Indiegogo http://www.indiegogo.com/
- crowdfunder http://www.crowdfunder.co
- peerbackers http://peerbackers.com/
- chipin http://www.chipin.com/
- fundable http://www.fundable.com/
- citizen effect http://www.citizeneffect.
- revenue trades http://www.revolutiontrad
- rockethub http://www.rockethub.com/
- sonicangel http://www.sonicangel.com
- spot http://www.spot.us
- startnext http://www.startnext.de/
- ulule http://www.ulule.com/
- cofundos http://www.cofundos.org/
- buzzbnk http://www.buzzbank.org/
- biracy http://www.biracy.com/
- investedin http://invested.in/
- haricot http://haricot.ca
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Effective Networking
I was recently asked by a reporter to share tips on how to network successfullyat events. "What tips, etiquette rules, and do's and don'ts should entrepreneurs adhere to when interacting with others at
networking events? Are there easy ways entrepreneurs can turn on the charm and attract the people and opportunities they want?"
Here was the answer I shared:
There are many opinions, but only one way to get the best results.
They are outlined as follows:
1) Set aside your own agenda and see how many people you can help.
2) Don't ask for cards. Instead, help people so much beyond their experience of typical networking, that they can't help but ask for yours. You've just made a friend for life... someone that will continue to look for you.
3) If you do get cards, don't plug them into your newsletter, unless you ask them when you meet them, "May I send a copy of my newsletter to you?" Then let them opt-in!
4) Stay away from any networking group that allows only one of each category (ie: one realtor, one insurance person, etc.) Those networks are already telling you that they are a competitive mindset and coming from scarcity. There is enough for everyone, and if you help all, including your competition, you will be greatly rewarded.
Dave Phillipson, CP
CEO Space
The World's Largest, Oldest & Most
Successful Organization for CEOs,
Entrepreneurs & Visionary Investors
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
P.S. Those that know me, understand there's not much that gets me as excited as helping a fellow entrepreneur. I'm passionate about sharing my resources, knowledge, and elite connections in order to build business cooperatively.
I do this by receiving referrals from people like you. Who do you know that's a business owner and wants to grow with strength & velocity?
networking events? Are there easy ways entrepreneurs can turn on the charm and attract the people and opportunities they want?"
Here was the answer I shared:
There are many opinions, but only one way to get the best results.
They are outlined as follows:
1) Set aside your own agenda and see how many people you can help.
2) Don't ask for cards. Instead, help people so much beyond their experience of typical networking, that they can't help but ask for yours. You've just made a friend for life... someone that will continue to look for you.
3) If you do get cards, don't plug them into your newsletter, unless you ask them when you meet them, "May I send a copy of my newsletter to you?" Then let them opt-in!
4) Stay away from any networking group that allows only one of each category (ie: one realtor, one insurance person, etc.) Those networks are already telling you that they are a competitive mindset and coming from scarcity. There is enough for everyone, and if you help all, including your competition, you will be greatly rewarded.
Dave Phillipson, CP
CEO Space
The World's Largest, Oldest & Most
Successful Organization for CEOs,
Entrepreneurs & Visionary Investors
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
P.S. Those that know me, understand there's not much that gets me as excited as helping a fellow entrepreneur. I'm passionate about sharing my resources, knowledge, and elite connections in order to build business cooperatively.
I do this by receiving referrals from people like you. Who do you know that's a business owner and wants to grow with strength & velocity?
Friday, February 18, 2011
Boot Strapping is Foolish
Based on the principles of Napoleon Hill's, Think and Grow Rich and just as Napoleon insists that one does not boot strap, CEO Space teaches people how to avoid it as well. In addition, CEO Space teaches those who do not have the necessary funds, how to generate $12-15k in an average of 72 hours.
Even further, it is found that most who are engaged with investors, are not in compliance. In fact, most believe that they don't have to be simply because they have a false belief that a private company is immune to the laws. Moreover, we find that they give up way too much of their company, for far too little. For example, one should not give up more than 20% for as much as $50 Million, but often we find that some will give up as much as 50 percent for as little as a couple hundred thousand, simply because they aren't aware of a simple formula that will attract money like a magnet.
Also, most have not even seen the "Show Me The Money" video at www.CEOspaceInternational.com
If there is anything I can do for you in the mean time, I'm happy to help.
It's not that last year was a great year for our members, every year has been - for over 20 years. Sure, last year and the year before were down years, but we still generated more than the government and VC did, for small business.
Now this:
Dave Phillipson, CP
CEO Space
The World's Largest, Oldest & Most
Successful Organization for CEOs,
Entrepreneurs & Visionary Investors
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
http://DauntlessDave.blogspot.com
P.S. Those that know me, understand there's not much that gets me as excited as helping a fellow entrepreneur. I'm passionate about sharing my resources, knowledge, and elite connections in order to build business cooperatively.
I do this by receiving referrals from people like you. Who do you know that's a business owner and wants to grow with strength & velocity?
Even further, it is found that most who are engaged with investors, are not in compliance. In fact, most believe that they don't have to be simply because they have a false belief that a private company is immune to the laws. Moreover, we find that they give up way too much of their company, for far too little. For example, one should not give up more than 20% for as much as $50 Million, but often we find that some will give up as much as 50 percent for as little as a couple hundred thousand, simply because they aren't aware of a simple formula that will attract money like a magnet.
Also, most have not even seen the "Show Me The Money" video at www.CEOspaceInternational.com
If there is anything I can do for you in the mean time, I'm happy to help.
It's not that last year was a great year for our members, every year has been - for over 20 years. Sure, last year and the year before were down years, but we still generated more than the government and VC did, for small business.
Now this:
Dave Phillipson, CP
CEO Space
The World's Largest, Oldest & Most
Successful Organization for CEOs,
Entrepreneurs & Visionary Investors
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
http://DauntlessDave.blogspot.com
P.S. Those that know me, understand there's not much that gets me as excited as helping a fellow entrepreneur. I'm passionate about sharing my resources, knowledge, and elite connections in order to build business cooperatively.
I do this by receiving referrals from people like you. Who do you know that's a business owner and wants to grow with strength & velocity?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Why Shark Tank was a FLOP.
RIP SHARK TANK
Not many people even know what Shark Tank is.
That's because not too many people watched the trainwreck on ABC Television.
Here, we'll uncover the truth behind the actual ratings.
Sure, it had a twitter following, though even the majority who followed it on twitter didn't have much of a following.
It's major problems?
It was mean spirited.
It was competitive
The sharks took advantage of entrepreneurs
The show didn't do a good job of education
People don't want to see that
By mean spirited there were some awful personal attacks by the Sharks, who actually weren't as business savvy as the show built them up to be.
The show could have been collaborative, but instead, they chose the competitive model. The same model that Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, W. Edwards Demming, Alan Dohrmann, Buckminster Fuller and Walt Disney stated would eventually cripple the United States. (It's now crippled the global economy). The solution: a business model akin to the days when an entire community would raise a barn, sink a well and build the fences and homes.
The sharks would take advantage of desparate and uneducated Entrepreneurs. They would strike deals such as taking 51% of a company for $40,000 or 60% for 90k. They would then snicker and congratulate each other for "what a steal" they got the company for.
At CEO Space, I see deals like 20% for 5,000,000 or 2 million, or 3. 5% for 100k, etc., on a consistent basis. It is the norm at CEO Space. In 2009, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands. That was in just 5 meetings. In a full season of Shark Tank, I don't think the entrepreneurs spent more than $3 Millon total.
The only education happening on Shark Tank was how to get screwed. There was no drill down on language, there was no conversation about, what one needs to do to become successful. If you watch SharkTankTVshow.com, you will watch an investment banker do an excellent job of educating entrepreneurs.
American's don't like to see quasi-rich people taking advantage of people trying to get ahead. We're big-hearted & soft. A brilliant example of that is the overwhelming outpouring of acceptance of Under Cover Boss which came on after the Super Bowl, on CBS.
RATINGS TRUTH
The sharks are bragging that the viewership for the Season Finale on Feb. 5th, were the highest ever with 4.7 million viewers. The lemmings that shill for the show are quick to put that out there as well. That's very clever manipulation of the truth.
The fact of the matter is that the ratings were still under a 1.4 and was second to last in the time slot, as shown on TVbyTheNumbers.com.
The history of the show is that it began on a Sunday and failed there so they moved it to Tuesdays, but it flopped there too and ABC tried to bury it on a Friday evening and tried to revive it against other weak shows at other networks. #FAIL.
Wikipedia showed the shows fate in the summer time. If you are able to read between lines, it was easy to see that the show canceled. I reported as much in the Fall but was attacked by the Twitteratti. Still am, by some. Meh~
Two of the Sharks were on twitter begging for folks to write into ABC to continue the show. They were @BarbaraCorcoran & @TheSharkDaymond. They must not be doing too well. On Monday, after the Finale, One of the Sharks twittered the following: "@robertherjavec: Shark Tank finale tonight on ABC. What will I do on Friday nights now ??" Later, it was discovered on http://www.abc.go.com/schedule that the show had been removed from the roster.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Some would argue it's not cancelled, "it just didn't get renewed". Same thing in my eyes.
The unfortunate part is that CEO Space member April Morris could have benefited from the additional publicity. Her show was to air on Feb. 5 but got pushed out a week due to the tragedy that was the Haiti Earthquake. The network was smart enough that even earthquake releif would outdraw the BUST of a show they had with Shark Tank.
April, who is @ThinGloss on Twitter, was told that her segment would air on February 12th. The network then said that they postponed her show until further notice
which means they won't have a second season because the season finale was on Friday.
"But wait a minute Dave, people on the show have benefited from TV."
Of course they did. It's TV. But just think what it would have done if people actually watched the show! The past participants aren't bragging how much they made from the show, they just bragged that the traffic crashed their servers.
Consider that StickySheets.com made over $60,000 when Whoopie Goldberg held their product up on the show and said how great it was for 30 seconds, and then was off to the races. Consider that Dr. Dawn Bain, another CEO Space member, and CEO of Azura Dawn made over $16,000 per minute her first time on QVC and has then been invited back several times. That is what the power of TV can do for you when people watch.
GOOD NEWS:
CEO Space may be bringing about a great replacement that will teach entrepreneurs.
Kevin Harrington is now a CEO Space member, who - while having quite a bit to learn, does have quite a bit to give and mentor all the while he's being mentored.
Membership had been extended to all sharks back in the Summer. None stepped forward until Kevin Harringon did at the Super Bowl event where CEO Space was tutoring Executives, Agents, Sponsor ececs, athletes and their families. Former Shark Kevin Harrington is becomming a member of CEO Space. You can hear an interview with Kevin by CLICKING HERE.
Canada has the Dragon's Den which is essentially the same show. Is it worth going after? It's on Hulu after the fact. You can also tune into SharkTankTVshow.com for some excellent entrepreneurial education.
Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have seen Shark Tank succeed if it were done a bit differently. Did you know that ABC even asked for 2% of profits, in perpetuity? That was before the Entrepreneur got paid. I don't like that. Nobody likes the smell of bad fish.
CEO Space is the world's oldest and largest network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors.
CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth.
CEO Space was founded by BJ Dohrmann, whose father was a mentor to Walt Disney, Napoleon Hill, Buckminster Fuller, JFK, Earl Nightingale and many others.
For the last thirty years, BJ has been known as "Coach of the Coaches" ...Anthony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Cannfield, Lisa Nichols, John Assaraf, Loral Langmier, T. Harv Ecker, John Gray, Bob Proctor, Robert Kiyosaki, Les Brown and just about any other big name you can think of, as well as head execs at companies like Starbucks, HSN, 3M, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, and many more. He is now counseling the United Nations and many foreign nations with regard to turning around the global economic crisis via Cooperative Capitalism.
Berny Dohrmann – Top Business Strategist and Founder of CEOSpace – demonstrates a financial GPS for you to navigate through the years ahead:
Bestselling author, multi-billionaire business investor and business specialist Berny Dohrmann shows you:
• How to recognise opportunities in this economic climate.
• Why it’s better to ask for a seat on the board – AND how to do this.
• The secrets to cooperative business-building.
• New ways to create wealth you’ve never even thought of.
• Powerful ways to network your way to business growth and success – and WHY this skill will be more important than ever on the economic road ahead.
Berny Dohrmann is the founder of CEO Space, a new model for executive training. Mr. Dohrmann is also the author of Money Magic, Growing Rich with Diamonds, Living Life as a Super Achiever, and Perfection CAN BE Had (now being made into a motion picture).
Mr. Dohrmann has operated billion dollar investment companies worldwide with offices in fourteen countries and his materials have been distributed in seven languages. Today, Berny Dohrmann teaches others how to enrich their own lives through his books, as well as his live events.
About a third of the members are investors, including millionaires & billionaires. In just 5 meetings in the last year, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands.
Investors love CEO Space for three main reasons, among many....
1) Anonymity & Ability to get to know the principles intimately.
2) More quality deal flow in one place than anywhere on earth.
3) The opportunity to mentor and be mentored, no matter what level of one's stature.
If you would like to see Dohrmann Live at any in any of the following cities, inquire within:
REMAINING SCHEDULE PENDING - Inquire Within
Not many people even know what Shark Tank is.
That's because not too many people watched the trainwreck on ABC Television.
Here, we'll uncover the truth behind the actual ratings.
Sure, it had a twitter following, though even the majority who followed it on twitter didn't have much of a following.
It's major problems?
It was mean spirited.
It was competitive
The sharks took advantage of entrepreneurs
The show didn't do a good job of education
People don't want to see that
By mean spirited there were some awful personal attacks by the Sharks, who actually weren't as business savvy as the show built them up to be.
The show could have been collaborative, but instead, they chose the competitive model. The same model that Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, W. Edwards Demming, Alan Dohrmann, Buckminster Fuller and Walt Disney stated would eventually cripple the United States. (It's now crippled the global economy). The solution: a business model akin to the days when an entire community would raise a barn, sink a well and build the fences and homes.
The sharks would take advantage of desparate and uneducated Entrepreneurs. They would strike deals such as taking 51% of a company for $40,000 or 60% for 90k. They would then snicker and congratulate each other for "what a steal" they got the company for.
At CEO Space, I see deals like 20% for 5,000,000 or 2 million, or 3. 5% for 100k, etc., on a consistent basis. It is the norm at CEO Space. In 2009, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands. That was in just 5 meetings. In a full season of Shark Tank, I don't think the entrepreneurs spent more than $3 Millon total.
The only education happening on Shark Tank was how to get screwed. There was no drill down on language, there was no conversation about, what one needs to do to become successful. If you watch SharkTankTVshow.com, you will watch an investment banker do an excellent job of educating entrepreneurs.
American's don't like to see quasi-rich people taking advantage of people trying to get ahead. We're big-hearted & soft. A brilliant example of that is the overwhelming outpouring of acceptance of Under Cover Boss which came on after the Super Bowl, on CBS.
RATINGS TRUTH
The sharks are bragging that the viewership for the Season Finale on Feb. 5th, were the highest ever with 4.7 million viewers. The lemmings that shill for the show are quick to put that out there as well. That's very clever manipulation of the truth.
The fact of the matter is that the ratings were still under a 1.4 and was second to last in the time slot, as shown on TVbyTheNumbers.com.
The history of the show is that it began on a Sunday and failed there so they moved it to Tuesdays, but it flopped there too and ABC tried to bury it on a Friday evening and tried to revive it against other weak shows at other networks. #FAIL.
Wikipedia showed the shows fate in the summer time. If you are able to read between lines, it was easy to see that the show canceled. I reported as much in the Fall but was attacked by the Twitteratti. Still am, by some. Meh~
Two of the Sharks were on twitter begging for folks to write into ABC to continue the show. They were @BarbaraCorcoran & @TheSharkDaymond. They must not be doing too well. On Monday, after the Finale, One of the Sharks twittered the following: "@robertherjavec: Shark Tank finale tonight on ABC. What will I do on Friday nights now ??" Later, it was discovered on http://www.abc.go.com/schedule that the show had been removed from the roster.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Some would argue it's not cancelled, "it just didn't get renewed". Same thing in my eyes.
The unfortunate part is that CEO Space member April Morris could have benefited from the additional publicity. Her show was to air on Feb. 5 but got pushed out a week due to the tragedy that was the Haiti Earthquake. The network was smart enough that even earthquake releif would outdraw the BUST of a show they had with Shark Tank.
April, who is @ThinGloss on Twitter, was told that her segment would air on February 12th. The network then said that they postponed her show until further notice
which means they won't have a second season because the season finale was on Friday.
"But wait a minute Dave, people on the show have benefited from TV."
Of course they did. It's TV. But just think what it would have done if people actually watched the show! The past participants aren't bragging how much they made from the show, they just bragged that the traffic crashed their servers.
Consider that StickySheets.com made over $60,000 when Whoopie Goldberg held their product up on the show and said how great it was for 30 seconds, and then was off to the races. Consider that Dr. Dawn Bain, another CEO Space member, and CEO of Azura Dawn made over $16,000 per minute her first time on QVC and has then been invited back several times. That is what the power of TV can do for you when people watch.
GOOD NEWS:
CEO Space may be bringing about a great replacement that will teach entrepreneurs.
Kevin Harrington is now a CEO Space member, who - while having quite a bit to learn, does have quite a bit to give and mentor all the while he's being mentored.
Membership had been extended to all sharks back in the Summer. None stepped forward until Kevin Harringon did at the Super Bowl event where CEO Space was tutoring Executives, Agents, Sponsor ececs, athletes and their families. Former Shark Kevin Harrington is becomming a member of CEO Space. You can hear an interview with Kevin by CLICKING HERE.
Canada has the Dragon's Den which is essentially the same show. Is it worth going after? It's on Hulu after the fact. You can also tune into SharkTankTVshow.com for some excellent entrepreneurial education.
Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have seen Shark Tank succeed if it were done a bit differently. Did you know that ABC even asked for 2% of profits, in perpetuity? That was before the Entrepreneur got paid. I don't like that. Nobody likes the smell of bad fish.
ABOUT CEO SPACE:
CEO Space is the world's oldest and largest network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors.
CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth.
CEO Space was founded by BJ Dohrmann, whose father was a mentor to Walt Disney, Napoleon Hill, Buckminster Fuller, JFK, Earl Nightingale and many others.
For the last thirty years, BJ has been known as "Coach of the Coaches" ...Anthony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Cannfield, Lisa Nichols, John Assaraf, Loral Langmier, T. Harv Ecker, John Gray, Bob Proctor, Robert Kiyosaki, Les Brown and just about any other big name you can think of, as well as head execs at companies like Starbucks, HSN, 3M, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, and many more. He is now counseling the United Nations and many foreign nations with regard to turning around the global economic crisis via Cooperative Capitalism.
Berny Dohrmann – Top Business Strategist and Founder of CEOSpace – demonstrates a financial GPS for you to navigate through the years ahead:
Bestselling author, multi-billionaire business investor and business specialist Berny Dohrmann shows you:
• How to recognise opportunities in this economic climate.
• Why it’s better to ask for a seat on the board – AND how to do this.
• The secrets to cooperative business-building.
• New ways to create wealth you’ve never even thought of.
• Powerful ways to network your way to business growth and success – and WHY this skill will be more important than ever on the economic road ahead.
Berny Dohrmann is the founder of CEO Space, a new model for executive training. Mr. Dohrmann is also the author of Money Magic, Growing Rich with Diamonds, Living Life as a Super Achiever, and Perfection CAN BE Had (now being made into a motion picture).
Mr. Dohrmann has operated billion dollar investment companies worldwide with offices in fourteen countries and his materials have been distributed in seven languages. Today, Berny Dohrmann teaches others how to enrich their own lives through his books, as well as his live events.
About a third of the members are investors, including millionaires & billionaires. In just 5 meetings in the last year, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands.
Investors love CEO Space for three main reasons, among many....
1) Anonymity & Ability to get to know the principles intimately.
2) More quality deal flow in one place than anywhere on earth.
3) The opportunity to mentor and be mentored, no matter what level of one's stature.
If you would like to see Dohrmann Live at any in any of the following cities, inquire within:
REMAINING SCHEDULE PENDING - Inquire Within
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington, Teaching at CEO Space
Kevin Harrington is the CEO of TVGoods.com, an LLC. He is also the co-founder of Omni Reliant Holdings Inc.Kevin Harrington provides help in the development of companies as well as alternate possible business models for any and all types of businesses that are in it to make a profit. His book, “How Do I Turn Ideas into Million Dollar Products” has helped countless businesses turn their profits around in a favorable fashion. Kevin Harrington is a brilliant entrepreneurial mind that is well adept in the mentoring and advising of how to manage and make money in a business.
Shark Tank's – Kevin Harrington Teaching At CEO SPACE
Not only that, Kevin Harrington can also have help starting businesses expanded into large corporations with his insight on everything necessary to make a business grow. Reading Kevin Harrington’s book can be one of the best things that any business owners do in their efforts to expand profits as well as make their business larger as a whole, both domestically as well as internationally. Kevin Harrington’s business techniques have proven time and time again to be fool proof and more than capable of altering a business for the better.
With the type of advice that Kevin Harrington provides business owners and business starters as well as beginning and seasoned entrepreneurs can learn the ins and outs of good business dealings which can result in the improvement of any business model out there.
Kevin Harrington is often called the king of the infomercial. He was one of the first individuals to make fantastic money pushing products on infomercials, making him one of the leading experts on what a good infomercial should have as well as how to tell a very good product from a very bad, or even a mediocre product.
Kevin Harrington is one of the best individuals to consult to improve your business because of his very business savvy expertise as well as his seasoned firsthand experience in the field of big product pushing.
For more information on how you can get personally coached by Kevin and other Top Entrepreneur coaches, go to www.GlobalCEOspace.com
About Kevin Herrington:
Kevin Harrington has served as chairman of Omni since its inception and as chief executive officer of TV Goods, Inc. since its inception. He is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and principal architect of the “infomercial” industry.
In 1984 Mr. Harrington produced one of the industry’s first 30 minute infomercials. Mr. Harrington has been involved with over 500 product launches resulting in sales of over $4 billion worldwide and 20 products reaching individual sales of over $100 million. Mr. Harrington founded Quantum International, Ltd. in 1988 which merged into National Media Corporation in 1991. Under Harrington’s leadership as its President National Media reached $500 million in annual sales with distribution in over 100 countries in 20 languages.
Additional entrepreneurial startups for which Harrington served as CEO included a joint venture with HSN, Inc. (HSN Direct) in 1994 and Reliant International Media in 1997. Reliant was sold to Response TV PLC, which was controlled by the Koo banking family of Taiwan in January, 2007. Harrington co-founded OmniReliant Holdings Inc. in 2006.
Mr. Harrington has established two global networking associations; the Entrepreneur's Organization (E.O.) and the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA). Mr. Harrington currently stars as an investor “Shark” on the television series “Shark Tank”. He recently released a book entitled “Act Now”. This book chronicles Kevin‘s life and experiences in the DRTV industry. Kevin’s co-author is William Simon who co-authored with Steven Jobs, the NY Times best-selling book “Icon.”
Kevin Harrington’s first company known as Quantum International merged into the National Media in the year 1991. It then grew far past five hundred million dollars in annual sales with its distribution being marketed in over one hundred countries. More of these entrepreneurial ventures of Kevin Harrington’s include the HSN Direct with the Home Shopping Network as well as Reliant International. IN the year 2009, Kevin Harrington became one of the key investors in the ABC television show known as Shark Tanks. In this revolutionary show, entrepreneurs pitch their ideas for business models in the hopes of gaining investment financing from a high end panel of business experts, also known as the sharks.
Harrington has also founded two global networking associations, the Electronic Retailing Association, or the ERA, and the Entrepreneurs Organization, or the EO. He is also one of Advisors of the Board for Absolutely New Incorporated.
Monday, May 17, 2010
FEAR & OR CHEER?
FEAR OR CHEER?
There are too many enjoying making money on FEAR. If you want to drop out of the “fear machine” as a false gospel, and claim your lives back, exchange Fear for Cheer, and join hundreds upon hundreds coming Tuesday of next week to the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort. Do more business in a week than you will do in a YEAR. Now that’s Cheer!
The recovery is coming whether you are ready or not….and all the fear in the world will not dispel the cheer if you are ahead of the YEAR to claim all that is HERE!
Sales at retail sales rose and industrial production powered ahead in April, further evidence the economic recovery was strengthening.
Consumers were also a bit more confident early this month, adding to Friday's string of upbeat data that stood in sharp contrast to financial markets which sold off as panicky investors worried about Europe's debts.
Though the debt crisis is expected to have a minimal impact on U.S. economic activity, analysts worry falling share prices could dampen consumer morale and crimp household spending.
"While the economic recovery is on a very sound footing, I am apprehensive about some of the noise coming out of Europe," said Craig Thomas, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
Sales at U.S. retailers climbed 0.4 percent after rising 2.1 percent in March, the Commerce Department said. April's increase was double what markets had expected and marked the seventh straight monthly gain.
Separately, the Federal Reserve said industrial production rose 0.8 percent last month after a 0.2 percent increase in March. The gain exceeded market expectations for a 0.6 percent increase and highlighted the factory sector's lead role in the economy's recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.
Capacity utilization, a closely watched measure of how fully the economy is using its productive potential, rose to 73.7 percent, the highest since November 2008, from 73.1 percent in March.
The U.S. central bank has listed resource use among factors it is monitoring to determine when to begin raising benchmark interest rates, which stand effectively at zero.
"I think that the risks, obviously, with the global situation make things a little bit more uncertain than we were expecting," he said. "So, if anything, I am even more comfortable with my assessment that accommodation continues to be important."
Consumers feeling more confident
A rebuilding of inventories from record low levels by businesses has largely driven the recovery, but consumers are now taking part and growing more optimistic.
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The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers' sentiment index rose to 73.3 in May from 72.2 in April, a touch below market expectations.
"Robust production and restocking will spill over to the broader economy via the labor market, household and business sentiment. This dynamic will help sustain growth," said Aaron Smith, a senior economist at Moody's Economy.com.
Prices for U.S. government debt rallied, while the dollar rose to a more than 18-month high against the euro.
Recent data have pointed to a fairly solid foundation for the U.S. recovery, although an expected slowdown in Europe may prove a headwind.
A Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank survey of forecasters published Friday forecast the economy growing at a 3.3 percent rate in both the second and third quarters, up from an earlier poll.
The economy grew 3.2 percent in the first quarter and analysts expect a modest upward revision as export and retail sales growth in March were stronger than previously estimated.
Increase in auto sales
Sales last month were supported by a surprise rise in motor vehicle purchases, as well as an increase in building materials and garden equipment receipts. Excluding autos, sales rose 0.4 percent last month after rising 1.2 percent in March.
However, a measure corresponding most closely with the consumer spending component of the government's gross domestic product report — a gauge that strips out autos, gasoline and building materials — slipped 0.2 percent. It had risen 0.7 percent in March.
Analysts remain upbeat on the prospects for spending.
Commentary from Berny (Bernhard) Dohrmann, Chairman of CEOspace. To catch him at the next CEO Space, contact me for details.
There are too many enjoying making money on FEAR. If you want to drop out of the “fear machine” as a false gospel, and claim your lives back, exchange Fear for Cheer, and join hundreds upon hundreds coming Tuesday of next week to the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort. Do more business in a week than you will do in a YEAR. Now that’s Cheer!
The recovery is coming whether you are ready or not….and all the fear in the world will not dispel the cheer if you are ahead of the YEAR to claim all that is HERE!
Sales at retail sales rose and industrial production powered ahead in April, further evidence the economic recovery was strengthening.
Consumers were also a bit more confident early this month, adding to Friday's string of upbeat data that stood in sharp contrast to financial markets which sold off as panicky investors worried about Europe's debts.
Though the debt crisis is expected to have a minimal impact on U.S. economic activity, analysts worry falling share prices could dampen consumer morale and crimp household spending.
"While the economic recovery is on a very sound footing, I am apprehensive about some of the noise coming out of Europe," said Craig Thomas, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
Sales at U.S. retailers climbed 0.4 percent after rising 2.1 percent in March, the Commerce Department said. April's increase was double what markets had expected and marked the seventh straight monthly gain.
Separately, the Federal Reserve said industrial production rose 0.8 percent last month after a 0.2 percent increase in March. The gain exceeded market expectations for a 0.6 percent increase and highlighted the factory sector's lead role in the economy's recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.
Capacity utilization, a closely watched measure of how fully the economy is using its productive potential, rose to 73.7 percent, the highest since November 2008, from 73.1 percent in March.
The U.S. central bank has listed resource use among factors it is monitoring to determine when to begin raising benchmark interest rates, which stand effectively at zero.
"I think that the risks, obviously, with the global situation make things a little bit more uncertain than we were expecting," he said. "So, if anything, I am even more comfortable with my assessment that accommodation continues to be important."
Consumers feeling more confident
A rebuilding of inventories from record low levels by businesses has largely driven the recovery, but consumers are now taking part and growing more optimistic.
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/AP_GRAPHICS/AP-RETAIL-SALES1.gif
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers' sentiment index rose to 73.3 in May from 72.2 in April, a touch below market expectations.
"Robust production and restocking will spill over to the broader economy via the labor market, household and business sentiment. This dynamic will help sustain growth," said Aaron Smith, a senior economist at Moody's Economy.com.
Prices for U.S. government debt rallied, while the dollar rose to a more than 18-month high against the euro.
Recent data have pointed to a fairly solid foundation for the U.S. recovery, although an expected slowdown in Europe may prove a headwind.
A Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank survey of forecasters published Friday forecast the economy growing at a 3.3 percent rate in both the second and third quarters, up from an earlier poll.
The economy grew 3.2 percent in the first quarter and analysts expect a modest upward revision as export and retail sales growth in March were stronger than previously estimated.
Increase in auto sales
Sales last month were supported by a surprise rise in motor vehicle purchases, as well as an increase in building materials and garden equipment receipts. Excluding autos, sales rose 0.4 percent last month after rising 1.2 percent in March.
However, a measure corresponding most closely with the consumer spending component of the government's gross domestic product report — a gauge that strips out autos, gasoline and building materials — slipped 0.2 percent. It had risen 0.7 percent in March.
Analysts remain upbeat on the prospects for spending.
Commentary from Berny (Bernhard) Dohrmann, Chairman of CEOspace. To catch him at the next CEO Space, contact me for details.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Berny Dohrmann Interview - Mess Before Success
CEO Space Founder, Bernhard Dohrman, is interviewed by Chris Steely of
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
INFLATION ECONOMICS 101 - For Business
Deflation is an economy of crashing price values. Inflation is an economy of rising price and cost. As you know over the past 12 months oil, which is the “cost of everything” has risen 75%. Half of a barrel of oil is used for pesticides and fertilizers which directly affect food prices. The other half run the combine and trucks to deliver the food.
The iron ore producers of the world entered into a pack this April that will increase the cost of steal by 35% immediately, “another cost” of everything. Steel represents your transportation system for all goods and services and your car price plus the price of your office space. Steel will rise by a level not seen in decades. As you plan for these core assets, oil and iron to rise so dramatically, the cost of passing on cost, to all of the buyers is just beginning.
The cost to ramp up a business, of any size, is lower in the next 18 months than it will be in the next 18 years. If you miss the 18 month window, you will pay so much MORE to ramp up the same business in the future. RAMP up your business early in the recovery, the Spring being the ideal time to make a decision. Load better software on your brain and make better decisions. Inflation is coming. If you don’t know how to operate a small business inside an inflation economy, allow some of our faculty to explain these details to you in our next class. We believe FULL PARTICPATION early in the recovery cycle is the priceless information every business owner needs this May to SPRNG FORWARD finically.
The May CEO Space Free-Enterprise Forum is the shift point for moving from a deflation recession economy into a sustained long term inflation economy. For more information, contact within.
The iron ore producers of the world entered into a pack this April that will increase the cost of steal by 35% immediately, “another cost” of everything. Steel represents your transportation system for all goods and services and your car price plus the price of your office space. Steel will rise by a level not seen in decades. As you plan for these core assets, oil and iron to rise so dramatically, the cost of passing on cost, to all of the buyers is just beginning.
The cost to ramp up a business, of any size, is lower in the next 18 months than it will be in the next 18 years. If you miss the 18 month window, you will pay so much MORE to ramp up the same business in the future. RAMP up your business early in the recovery, the Spring being the ideal time to make a decision. Load better software on your brain and make better decisions. Inflation is coming. If you don’t know how to operate a small business inside an inflation economy, allow some of our faculty to explain these details to you in our next class. We believe FULL PARTICPATION early in the recovery cycle is the priceless information every business owner needs this May to SPRNG FORWARD finically.
The May CEO Space Free-Enterprise Forum is the shift point for moving from a deflation recession economy into a sustained long term inflation economy. For more information, contact within.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
HOW DO I FOCUS FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS?
What if four days – just four days off work – virtually doubled your income in 2010?
...and you made a cash on cash profit to own a lifetime membership to assure you INSURE that you WILL double your income in 2010
WOULD YOU FIND THOSE FOUR DAYS OFF WORK or WHAT?
As yourself this: HOW Can I free up just this four day period to MAKE A FOTURNE? The answer is that you can do it in a little “over two weeks” from today so that making that personal FORTUNE becomes real for you – so real you won’t fail to invest in get those results – results.
CEO SPACE is going to prove to you before you get involved are real but require effort on your part to acquire. Will you spend a bit of time on the proof as a first step?
Lead yourself to one of our online videos by clicking here:
- and then schedule a coaching call and I will show you the best decision you will have ever made for your business. I can even help you find a specific video from someone in your business, amongst our library of over 2000 hours of testimonials.
Just four days off site and during those 4 days you will get a 90 minute break every 90 minutes, to make phone calls, check emails, clear voicemail. Did you follow that? You will take a break, every 90 minutes, where you can work on your business for 90 minutes... then it's back to growing your business.
FOUR DAYS WORKING VIRTUALLY AT CEO SPACE MARCH 23RD
• New Plans to Build Recovery Momentum impossible without training upgrades
• New Contacts – largest world market ever produced by CEO SPACE
• New Customers for any size business
• New Alliances to feed you business for years
• New Teams that stay with you
• New marketing and brand plans for 2010
• New fresh ideas with world class help in your field
• Problem-solving with more experts on site than ever
• Accelerated Results
• Systems enlarge to accommodate new growth
• New education that changes performance (your own)
• Tune up for YOU tune up for your business
• Empower much more exciting 2010 Business results
• Living more inside a cooperative business community all year
• Teen lives changed for teens in family group
• Contacts to Celebrity hosts like Dr. Dawn Bain Bob Circosta and Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington
• Using all five trade shows this year to THRIVE
• Tax write off’s that create profits
• Lifetime Members is an asset of the business
• Can’t afford not to be at CEO SPACE
-Versus-
STAYING HOME
-Running 2010 on old out dated software for another economic time
-Leaving your life time membership benefit idle, no new vital 2010 contacts
-Miss the new Customers on site all provinces and states North America
-No New Alliances
-No New Teams in First Quarter of 2010
-No fresh marketing or brand plans in 2010
-No Help no new ideas in March
-Problems not solved with more minds over money this March
-Limited Results
-No new system planning set into play
-Operating on old training and old predictable results
-Old soiled spark plugs and clogged air filters in 2010
-Lose options and opportunities – so easy to acquire by setting new priorities
-Living inside a more dog eat dog competitive community all year
-Teen lives unchanged in family group
-No New Celebrity connections
-Loosing all five trades shows this year slowing down growth raising cost
-Pay higher taxes and miss new profits
-Lifetime Membership is unused and wasted
-Use excuses to suggest I can’t afford time and resources to go
FOUR DAYS TO EARN A FORTUNE – MISSING WEALTH IS NOT AN OPTION
MARCH 23rd – ENROLL
Why delay? TAKE ACTION TODAY .... (okay, so that's a cute rhyme so instead of today, why not take action now!
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
...and you made a cash on cash profit to own a lifetime membership to assure you INSURE that you WILL double your income in 2010
WOULD YOU FIND THOSE FOUR DAYS OFF WORK or WHAT?
As yourself this: HOW Can I free up just this four day period to MAKE A FOTURNE? The answer is that you can do it in a little “over two weeks” from today so that making that personal FORTUNE becomes real for you – so real you won’t fail to invest in get those results – results.
CEO SPACE is going to prove to you before you get involved are real but require effort on your part to acquire. Will you spend a bit of time on the proof as a first step?
Lead yourself to one of our online videos by clicking here:
- and then schedule a coaching call and I will show you the best decision you will have ever made for your business. I can even help you find a specific video from someone in your business, amongst our library of over 2000 hours of testimonials.
Just four days off site and during those 4 days you will get a 90 minute break every 90 minutes, to make phone calls, check emails, clear voicemail. Did you follow that? You will take a break, every 90 minutes, where you can work on your business for 90 minutes... then it's back to growing your business.
FOUR DAYS WORKING VIRTUALLY AT CEO SPACE MARCH 23RD
• New Plans to Build Recovery Momentum impossible without training upgrades
• New Contacts – largest world market ever produced by CEO SPACE
• New Customers for any size business
• New Alliances to feed you business for years
• New Teams that stay with you
• New marketing and brand plans for 2010
• New fresh ideas with world class help in your field
• Problem-solving with more experts on site than ever
• Accelerated Results
• Systems enlarge to accommodate new growth
• New education that changes performance (your own)
• Tune up for YOU tune up for your business
• Empower much more exciting 2010 Business results
• Living more inside a cooperative business community all year
• Teen lives changed for teens in family group
• Contacts to Celebrity hosts like Dr. Dawn Bain Bob Circosta and Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington
• Using all five trade shows this year to THRIVE
• Tax write off’s that create profits
• Lifetime Members is an asset of the business
• Can’t afford not to be at CEO SPACE
-Versus-
STAYING HOME
-Running 2010 on old out dated software for another economic time
-Leaving your life time membership benefit idle, no new vital 2010 contacts
-Miss the new Customers on site all provinces and states North America
-No New Alliances
-No New Teams in First Quarter of 2010
-No fresh marketing or brand plans in 2010
-No Help no new ideas in March
-Problems not solved with more minds over money this March
-Limited Results
-No new system planning set into play
-Operating on old training and old predictable results
-Old soiled spark plugs and clogged air filters in 2010
-Lose options and opportunities – so easy to acquire by setting new priorities
-Living inside a more dog eat dog competitive community all year
-Teen lives unchanged in family group
-No New Celebrity connections
-Loosing all five trades shows this year slowing down growth raising cost
-Pay higher taxes and miss new profits
-Lifetime Membership is unused and wasted
-Use excuses to suggest I can’t afford time and resources to go
FOUR DAYS TO EARN A FORTUNE – MISSING WEALTH IS NOT AN OPTION
MARCH 23rd – ENROLL
Why delay? TAKE ACTION TODAY .... (okay, so that's a cute rhyme so instead of today, why not take action now!
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
Saturday, February 27, 2010
"But why am I not attracting investors?"
This may hold true for you, it's directed not to you but the thousands of posts similar to yours on LinkedIn, Twitter, Message Boards, etc., with folks that are certain they have "The Next Big Thing".
It's doubtful that you're going to find equity partners online.
In this day and time, you're going to have to get belly to belly with investors. You're not going to find them online, you're not going to find them at the local chamber mixer.
"You're going to have to find a place where money hangs out", as Robert Kiyosaki says.
You have to give them a chance to know you and what you're about. There is no better place than a "Country Club of Investors". But you're not going to have to show them that you're serious you have to impress upon them that you belong. Not impress them...Angels aren't looking to be impressed. Impress UPON them that you are what they are looking for.
You do this through getting in their club, then learning the language of capital, then taking the steps needed to give them confidence of seeing what they feel is right, and largely, by getting to know them personally... getting to be their friend.
If you're going to play hoops with Michael Jordan, you're not going to do that by hanging around the courts at Venice Beach or Laguna. You're likely to make acquaintance with Michael by hanging around the Player's Club at Cesar's Palace, with the other high rollers. ....and they're not going to let you in just because they saw you on an email list.
This advice comes from someone who saw $3 Billion in Angel money changing hands in 2009, when Banks and Venture Capital was sitting on the sidelines.
For all of you reading this, don't take it personal, take it to heart. It's the best advice you'll find, prior to the next step, which is finding such a club such as CEOSpace, that offers you a money-back guarantee and has a 21-year history of success of some household brands, members who are at some of the largest companies on earth.
For other articles on Funding, Business Hurdles, or Running a Business,
go to: http://DauntlessDave.Blogspot.com
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
It's doubtful that you're going to find equity partners online.
In this day and time, you're going to have to get belly to belly with investors. You're not going to find them online, you're not going to find them at the local chamber mixer.
"You're going to have to find a place where money hangs out", as Robert Kiyosaki says.
You have to give them a chance to know you and what you're about. There is no better place than a "Country Club of Investors". But you're not going to have to show them that you're serious you have to impress upon them that you belong. Not impress them...Angels aren't looking to be impressed. Impress UPON them that you are what they are looking for.
You do this through getting in their club, then learning the language of capital, then taking the steps needed to give them confidence of seeing what they feel is right, and largely, by getting to know them personally... getting to be their friend.
If you're going to play hoops with Michael Jordan, you're not going to do that by hanging around the courts at Venice Beach or Laguna. You're likely to make acquaintance with Michael by hanging around the Player's Club at Cesar's Palace, with the other high rollers. ....and they're not going to let you in just because they saw you on an email list.
This advice comes from someone who saw $3 Billion in Angel money changing hands in 2009, when Banks and Venture Capital was sitting on the sidelines.
For all of you reading this, don't take it personal, take it to heart. It's the best advice you'll find, prior to the next step, which is finding such a club such as CEOSpace, that offers you a money-back guarantee and has a 21-year history of success of some household brands, members who are at some of the largest companies on earth.
For other articles on Funding, Business Hurdles, or Running a Business,
go to: http://DauntlessDave.Blogspot.com
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
http://www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The "Pay it Forward" of Business
In the 2000 film "Pay It Forward," people change their expectations about giving. Instead of getting "paid back" when they do something for or give something to somebody else, they tell the person to "pay it forward." The expression catches on nationwide, changing how people look at giving to others.
In Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva vow is an individual's pledge not to fully attain Nirvana until all of humanity attains similar enlightenment. This contagious ethic aims for a chain-reaction in enlightenment.
So what do idealistic films and Eastern religion have to do with Capitalism? Nothing - and everything.
CEOSpace founder Berny Dohrmann does not seem to have either the movie or the bodhisattva vow in mind in his concept of "collaborative capitalism." But the broad principal is the same: when you serve others and nourish the principal of advancing the community first, you begin a movement that returns much more than if you had pursued your own interest to the exclusion of all others.
Dohrmann explains how collaborative capitalism differs from competitive capitalism, and maintains that his notion of collaborative capitalism inherently favors transparency.
In competition-based capitalism the founding principal of business is "The less you know the more I make." The more your endeavor is commoditized by price comparison of known characteristics, the greater your need to reject transparency and thereby preserve pricing flexibility.
In collaboration-based capitalism the founding principal is the creation of value. Value is the catalyst of hyper growth and innovation in markets.
If that sounds a lot more like good old-fashioned honest pricing for honest value than a revolutionary concept, it is. But when Dohrmann first examined the road Capitalism was taking, he realized that honesty and transparency had become unusual under the existing model of the day.
So in 1981, he created CEOSpace, the "original social network," to implement a collaborative capitalist model, eventually expanding to 140 clubs around the world. All members eventually went to one or more of Dohrmann's intensive 10-day seminars, held five times a year.
And that's where a business leader's concept of capitalism gets flipped upside-down.
Each participant shows up with a SNAP, or "human commercial," a clear, concise (30 seconds or less) description of what he can provide--but that "commercial" is at first only background information.
Upon meeting another member, a CEOSpace participant does not ask how he can get help in peddling his product and services. Rather, he immediately asks, "How can I help you?"
Participants work collaboratively, networking to create additional value, matching others' real needs with their own capabilities and resources. If there is "competition" in the model, it is competition to be highly regarded as helpful to other members. The guiding concern is that others flourish; if you are creating value for the CEOSpace community, all the incentives are structured for your own business to flourish as well. The more you help others, the more your own services are "advertised".
If you're tempted to write off Collaborative Capitalism as "Kumbayah Capitalism," a quick look at the program's testimonials should give you pause. Lifelong conservative business leaders, CEOs from the tech field to restaurant management, and authors and trainers agree: CEOSpace gets results.
While Dohrmann's model has common-sense advantages in any economic climate, the events since late 2008 put a fine point on what we mean by "value." The principles at issue can be traced across decades, bearing out the divergence of the modern-day financial system from a value approach. Value is whatever the market will pay for a given product or service; but value becomes purely notional and unmoored from reality, when transparency is evaded or simply foiled outright.
In the midst of the "Great Recession," entrepreneurial capitalism is not only holding its own, it is even (slightly) expanding. Industry and government leaders agree that recovery will depend on the continued and growing expansion of the entrepreneurial sector.
A confluence of easily available social media and a new recognition of the role of value and transparency certainly augur well for Dohrmann's collaborative approach. Sitting at the crossroads of social networking and transparent entrepreneurial capitalism, CEOSpace's "Pay-It-Forward" networking may just be the wave of the future.
For more information on CEO Space or Bernhard Dohrmann, go to www.GlobalCEOspace.com or simply click the videos link on the links to the right of this story here at DauntlessDave.Blogspot.com
In Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva vow is an individual's pledge not to fully attain Nirvana until all of humanity attains similar enlightenment. This contagious ethic aims for a chain-reaction in enlightenment.
So what do idealistic films and Eastern religion have to do with Capitalism? Nothing - and everything.
CEOSpace founder Berny Dohrmann does not seem to have either the movie or the bodhisattva vow in mind in his concept of "collaborative capitalism." But the broad principal is the same: when you serve others and nourish the principal of advancing the community first, you begin a movement that returns much more than if you had pursued your own interest to the exclusion of all others.
Dohrmann explains how collaborative capitalism differs from competitive capitalism, and maintains that his notion of collaborative capitalism inherently favors transparency.
In competition-based capitalism the founding principal of business is "The less you know the more I make." The more your endeavor is commoditized by price comparison of known characteristics, the greater your need to reject transparency and thereby preserve pricing flexibility.
In collaboration-based capitalism the founding principal is the creation of value. Value is the catalyst of hyper growth and innovation in markets.
If that sounds a lot more like good old-fashioned honest pricing for honest value than a revolutionary concept, it is. But when Dohrmann first examined the road Capitalism was taking, he realized that honesty and transparency had become unusual under the existing model of the day.
So in 1981, he created CEOSpace, the "original social network," to implement a collaborative capitalist model, eventually expanding to 140 clubs around the world. All members eventually went to one or more of Dohrmann's intensive 10-day seminars, held five times a year.
And that's where a business leader's concept of capitalism gets flipped upside-down.
Each participant shows up with a SNAP, or "human commercial," a clear, concise (30 seconds or less) description of what he can provide--but that "commercial" is at first only background information.
Upon meeting another member, a CEOSpace participant does not ask how he can get help in peddling his product and services. Rather, he immediately asks, "How can I help you?"
Participants work collaboratively, networking to create additional value, matching others' real needs with their own capabilities and resources. If there is "competition" in the model, it is competition to be highly regarded as helpful to other members. The guiding concern is that others flourish; if you are creating value for the CEOSpace community, all the incentives are structured for your own business to flourish as well. The more you help others, the more your own services are "advertised".
If you're tempted to write off Collaborative Capitalism as "Kumbayah Capitalism," a quick look at the program's testimonials should give you pause. Lifelong conservative business leaders, CEOs from the tech field to restaurant management, and authors and trainers agree: CEOSpace gets results.
While Dohrmann's model has common-sense advantages in any economic climate, the events since late 2008 put a fine point on what we mean by "value." The principles at issue can be traced across decades, bearing out the divergence of the modern-day financial system from a value approach. Value is whatever the market will pay for a given product or service; but value becomes purely notional and unmoored from reality, when transparency is evaded or simply foiled outright.
In the midst of the "Great Recession," entrepreneurial capitalism is not only holding its own, it is even (slightly) expanding. Industry and government leaders agree that recovery will depend on the continued and growing expansion of the entrepreneurial sector.
A confluence of easily available social media and a new recognition of the role of value and transparency certainly augur well for Dohrmann's collaborative approach. Sitting at the crossroads of social networking and transparent entrepreneurial capitalism, CEOSpace's "Pay-It-Forward" networking may just be the wave of the future.
For more information on CEO Space or Bernhard Dohrmann, go to www.GlobalCEOspace.com or simply click the videos link on the links to the right of this story here at DauntlessDave.Blogspot.com
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
INSURE YOUR BUSINESS AGAINST FAILURE?
What if you could insure your business against failure?
What if failure was simply no longer an option potential? What if you could purchase an insurance policy that would assure your business could never fail? What if you paid only once for the policy and there were no ongoing payments required? What if the policy worked every time for every business? Would you explore buying the policy if the policy included a money back guarantee? Would you take action to insure your business would not fail? If the policy included:
· Team discounts for family and team worth thousands more off their policies
· Four bonus days of free business training as a policy bonus
· A week of the most advanced training for business in the world
· A week of networking more advanced than any you have known
· More business in a week than most CEO’s will develop in 2010 all year
· The policy is profitable – or your money back
Would you explore buying the SUCCESS INSURANCE POLICY for a single low premium price?
We have been insuring business owners for over twenty years.
What if failure was simply no longer an option potential? What if you could purchase an insurance policy that would assure your business could never fail? What if you paid only once for the policy and there were no ongoing payments required? What if the policy worked every time for every business? Would you explore buying the policy if the policy included a money back guarantee? Would you take action to insure your business would not fail? If the policy included:
· Team discounts for family and team worth thousands more off their policies
· Four bonus days of free business training as a policy bonus
· A week of the most advanced training for business in the world
· A week of networking more advanced than any you have known
· More business in a week than most CEO’s will develop in 2010 all year
· The policy is profitable – or your money back
Would you explore buying the SUCCESS INSURANCE POLICY for a single low premium price?
We have been insuring business owners for over twenty years.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
CEO Space proves Collaboration vs. Competition, is the New Business Model in Today's Economy
Rapid success, important connections with current and future business partners and changing the world one CEO at a time. These are just a few of the intrinsic values posited by CEO Space, Inc in their proven model of collaborative and cooperative business networking.
As economies recover from the current recession, innovation, growth and stability in companies both small and large becomes evermore important. CEO Space, Inc., the world leader in the free enterprise education of business owners, CEOs and world leaders, is one company that has incorporated the idea of collaboration and cooperation into the retreat it hosts. By doing this they have revolutionized the business coaching retreat industry by bringing together the top minds in fortune companies and creating an environment where everyone -- small businesses, big businesses, authors and entrepreneurs -- is treated as equals, and are introduced to each other by saying “how can I help you”.
High-level speakers such as Les Brown, The World’s Leading Motivational Speaker and Marc Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, share their vision freely as well as learn from members attending the retreat. The idea behind this free-sharing of information and ideas is that it will facilitate growth and innovation in companies through the pooling of these intellectual resources.
The collaborative environment is nothing new to businesses, however for many years the notion has been that cooperating or joining forces with a competitor would result in loss of intellectual property or worse the downfall of one of the businesses doing the cooperating. The results of implementing collaborative environments, not only within the company, but externally as well, have been surprising to those who questioned it in the first place.
Collaborative efforts among businesses and nations in particular have culminated in accelerated growth of revenue, higher quality of product and even economic stability as a result of a higher GNP in nations that stress the idea of collaboration among businesses in their cities.
On a more individual level, participants look at CEO Space’s new collaborative retreat model and are impressed by the high level speakers and the connections they make. To be sure, attendees at these retreats are some of the most important players in the business world today with some of the best connections to be found.
The old axiom that competition is good for business still holds true in the majority of circles. Proponents of a competitive, non-collaborative, business model continually refer to competition as a validation of their ideas. CEO Space’s way of hosting retreats, however, begs the question: What if you can validate your idea amongst a collaborative group of entrepreneurs, make business connections that will help promote your idea and bring that same idea to life? The time to market is cut shorter and growth in revenue and ROI are both attained at a much faster pace.
Still, many businesses hold firm to the idea that competition pushes your business and keeps it from growing sluggish and stagnant. These same businesses also believe that competition forces focus. In some cases this may still be true, but for most businesses this model was based upon the idea that useful knowledge was concentrated in only a few areas. However, with the advent of current technology, information is no longer concentrated, but spread out amongst many individuals, businesses and nations. This makes collaboration and cooperation even more important.
CEO Space has a proven track record of over 20 years of success in their industry and their retreats have helped countless businesses achieve hyper-growth, reliable relationships with high-level business partners, finding and retaining customers and overall saving years in the process of growth for those businesses.
Many businesses and entrepreneurs recognize the necessity of a new business model that emphasizes collaborative environments within the workplace as well as outside collaboration with other businesses. These same businesses are finding that the growth of their revenue is exceeding that of similar companies that choose to maintain the old line that competition is the only way to foster growth and innovation. What they refuse to recognize is that when businesses cooperate, brainstorm and work together, the possibilities for growth, innovation and entrepreneurship are endless.
These same groundbreaking processes are being applied at the worldwide level as well. Nations that invest in a free enterprise based business model are finding that the businesses within their cities can utilize a collaborative environment to grow revenue and in turn grow the national treasury. CEO Space, Inc. has recognized this and has launched their Nation Space retreat initiative to help businesses in sovereign nations increase their Gross National Product and in turn help bring stability and growth to their economy.
In the end, business owners and entrepreneurs alike are finding that cooperative environments that foster collaboration will make more money and retain employees longer. These same businesses are adjusting their business models and “breaking all the rules” by leaving behind the old way of doing things. They are implementing structures within their businesses that create more resources and give people control over their environment. Once they establish their new business model the employees find themselves the recipients of a more collegial environment, one that fosters brainstorming, innovation and trust. As a result, the companies implementing these new ideas are making more money by collaborating than they ever could have, otherwise. CEO Space represents the new model for business development. They are teaching business lessons in a collaborative and cooperative manner. The environment is safe for learning and not competitive. In a nutshell, life lessons are learned in such a manner that business find out that they receive more from giving than taking and that through teaching they are actually learning.
CLICK HERE FOR SPECIAL AUDIO MESSAGE
Ask me for more information.
Dauntless Dave
This blog post was originally featured at Newswire.net, a CEO Space, member company.
For the leader in Social Network News for independent journalists, go to Newswire.net, an EXT company.
As economies recover from the current recession, innovation, growth and stability in companies both small and large becomes evermore important. CEO Space, Inc., the world leader in the free enterprise education of business owners, CEOs and world leaders, is one company that has incorporated the idea of collaboration and cooperation into the retreat it hosts. By doing this they have revolutionized the business coaching retreat industry by bringing together the top minds in fortune companies and creating an environment where everyone -- small businesses, big businesses, authors and entrepreneurs -- is treated as equals, and are introduced to each other by saying “how can I help you”.
High-level speakers such as Les Brown, The World’s Leading Motivational Speaker and Marc Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, share their vision freely as well as learn from members attending the retreat. The idea behind this free-sharing of information and ideas is that it will facilitate growth and innovation in companies through the pooling of these intellectual resources.
The collaborative environment is nothing new to businesses, however for many years the notion has been that cooperating or joining forces with a competitor would result in loss of intellectual property or worse the downfall of one of the businesses doing the cooperating. The results of implementing collaborative environments, not only within the company, but externally as well, have been surprising to those who questioned it in the first place.
Collaborative efforts among businesses and nations in particular have culminated in accelerated growth of revenue, higher quality of product and even economic stability as a result of a higher GNP in nations that stress the idea of collaboration among businesses in their cities.
On a more individual level, participants look at CEO Space’s new collaborative retreat model and are impressed by the high level speakers and the connections they make. To be sure, attendees at these retreats are some of the most important players in the business world today with some of the best connections to be found.
The old axiom that competition is good for business still holds true in the majority of circles. Proponents of a competitive, non-collaborative, business model continually refer to competition as a validation of their ideas. CEO Space’s way of hosting retreats, however, begs the question: What if you can validate your idea amongst a collaborative group of entrepreneurs, make business connections that will help promote your idea and bring that same idea to life? The time to market is cut shorter and growth in revenue and ROI are both attained at a much faster pace.
Still, many businesses hold firm to the idea that competition pushes your business and keeps it from growing sluggish and stagnant. These same businesses also believe that competition forces focus. In some cases this may still be true, but for most businesses this model was based upon the idea that useful knowledge was concentrated in only a few areas. However, with the advent of current technology, information is no longer concentrated, but spread out amongst many individuals, businesses and nations. This makes collaboration and cooperation even more important.
CEO Space has a proven track record of over 20 years of success in their industry and their retreats have helped countless businesses achieve hyper-growth, reliable relationships with high-level business partners, finding and retaining customers and overall saving years in the process of growth for those businesses.
Many businesses and entrepreneurs recognize the necessity of a new business model that emphasizes collaborative environments within the workplace as well as outside collaboration with other businesses. These same businesses are finding that the growth of their revenue is exceeding that of similar companies that choose to maintain the old line that competition is the only way to foster growth and innovation. What they refuse to recognize is that when businesses cooperate, brainstorm and work together, the possibilities for growth, innovation and entrepreneurship are endless.
These same groundbreaking processes are being applied at the worldwide level as well. Nations that invest in a free enterprise based business model are finding that the businesses within their cities can utilize a collaborative environment to grow revenue and in turn grow the national treasury. CEO Space, Inc. has recognized this and has launched their Nation Space retreat initiative to help businesses in sovereign nations increase their Gross National Product and in turn help bring stability and growth to their economy.
In the end, business owners and entrepreneurs alike are finding that cooperative environments that foster collaboration will make more money and retain employees longer. These same businesses are adjusting their business models and “breaking all the rules” by leaving behind the old way of doing things. They are implementing structures within their businesses that create more resources and give people control over their environment. Once they establish their new business model the employees find themselves the recipients of a more collegial environment, one that fosters brainstorming, innovation and trust. As a result, the companies implementing these new ideas are making more money by collaborating than they ever could have, otherwise. CEO Space represents the new model for business development. They are teaching business lessons in a collaborative and cooperative manner. The environment is safe for learning and not competitive. In a nutshell, life lessons are learned in such a manner that business find out that they receive more from giving than taking and that through teaching they are actually learning.
CLICK HERE FOR SPECIAL AUDIO MESSAGE
Ask me for more information.
Dauntless Dave
This blog post was originally featured at Newswire.net, a CEO Space, member company.
For the leader in Social Network News for independent journalists, go to Newswire.net, an EXT company.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Poor Internet Research leads to being uninformed
Your internet search reviewed of the 1000 to one Good and Positive things about my life contributions to the market place, and 100% of our contributions with CEO SPACE with no blemish of any nature as our CEO’s world wide are fully satisfied with their membership, you found the blog about my 20 year old contempt violation and the many years that went into that battle. This blog exists from a young young blogger we fired over half a decade ago, from the CEO SPACE membership for stealing money from other members, and never completing the web designs he was paid for. He noted he would set up a blog to make “me” the great evil as a revenge for his membership termination. He never paid for his membership in the first place. We told him seven years ago, when he threatened me with all this in the blog world, that we didn’t care and we frankly don’t care today.
Our relationship together has to include that we protect the membership even if it means your discomfort in reading a lop sided blog as a revenge for justified membership termination to protect other members just like YOU remains on line years later. The matter is antique in nature. The facts include www.lsapublishing.com where a movie of my life story is being developed with Russell Crowe agreeing to read the screen play to star in the leading role among others at his level. In each class I ask guests to raise hands to determine who knows I was in prison and who did not know. I tell everyone the story. There are no secrets I our world. I could not be more public about my life if I tried. You should know, in my “crime” the issue related to a charge that disclosures on 87,000 thousand dollars of bond issues, of the billions we sold and marketed in investment world wide, in a firm almost as large as Smith Barney operating in 14 countries and publicly traded, with a claim in court that there should have been a higher standard of disclosures on the small bond issue. Even though no funds were missing or misused by myself and it is record I never profited in any way from the “crime” of contempt. There was no charge or fraud or any of the normal stuff. We defended we met all legal standards and we believed we had and that we did. The prosecutor, my boy hood friend since early grade school in private Catholic education, and through my young adult life, chose to prosecute on the basis “this jury will send a higher standard to the brokers of America”. We defended the law and the facts but we were prosecuted on a CAUSE. Our loss has become the basis of the movie Malicious Prosecution over 20 years later. CEO SPACE has a flawless record, no litigation threatened or otherwise, and no investigations or even inquiries from any state or Federal agency. We are over compliant in all our dealings in over 100 nations and our work with heads of State and the United Nations appears on www.ceospacenation.net. If the blog on line caused you to feel uncomfortable, I can only say the issue over 20 years ago, was vicious and mean spirited in its nature. Also I ask how would that effect your use of CEO SPACE in 2010? I ask that you consider the very famous trainers that with full disclosure on this matter – far more than your blog discovery on line, fight one another to get slots to teach at CEO SPACE, where you work 99% with them and 1% with me. Put me in a bucket of “who cares” as I’m not what your investing in when you acquire a membership and diminish your decision based on “me”. I really am not a factor in your benefit. Your investing in a market place, and in enormous coaching resources, and you have money back guarantee that fully protects you from harm. If your still uncomfortable you will pass on CEO SPACE and we will bless your decision to do.
As you know I speak on the largest stages and venue platforms in the nation, most recently at the Super Bowl to athletes and in Dallas to NBA athletes. I’m booked from Paris to Hong Kong this year as the leading keynote address for huge conferences, and my past adds color to my “over compliance” doctrine where I tried to use my past as a positive asset to help other CEO’s to avoid even the most remote potential to find themselves in unexpected harm’s way as I did so many years ago. I’ve helped quite a few I believe and hope to help many more. Those at the top listen more because of my experience versus in spite of it. I recently spoke to 500 of the leading business owners in Romania at the Government’s request, meeting with the President of the nation and the minister of Finance. I am working with Governments from Pakistan to India to advance entrepreneur sector growth in their nations, with great pride and full disclosure.
I spend my life serving entrepreneurs in this final part of my sharing whatever gifts I have accumulated, now in my 60’s and my only objective is to foster improved results for small business owners. I hope this reply from our Club Presidents who are happy to discuss any further item with you on this topic, as is my long time personal attorney Maria Speth ( a litigator ) who teaches at class, so that your information is more rounded and complete. Although the blog world doesn’t let one reply adequately address the errors such “spin doctoring creates when revenge is the motivation”, I’d do the firing of the blogger individual all over again, because that decision protected our members. I did the right thing even if we have to forgo a good relationship as a consequence over the outflow this many years later. I’m sure you understand our desire to remove any discomfort for you with more full disclosure of the full facts.
The cost of leadership always has a penalty and I fully accept my responsibility.
Sincerely,
Berny Dohrmann
PS: Your open minded collection of greater factual detail is very much appreciated thank you. I’m not very skillful in the blog world and we have never sought to reply to this kind of thing as our legacy contributions are best displayed by the more than 2,000 hours of on line video testimonials from CEO”s worldwide who are active members from more than 100 nations world wide, which includes many law firms and attorneys. One of the Prosecuting attorneys with the government, from the time of this matter have for over a decade elected to teach on our faculty, which itself is a unique statement on the forgoing.
Our relationship together has to include that we protect the membership even if it means your discomfort in reading a lop sided blog as a revenge for justified membership termination to protect other members just like YOU remains on line years later. The matter is antique in nature. The facts include www.lsapublishing.com where a movie of my life story is being developed with Russell Crowe agreeing to read the screen play to star in the leading role among others at his level. In each class I ask guests to raise hands to determine who knows I was in prison and who did not know. I tell everyone the story. There are no secrets I our world. I could not be more public about my life if I tried. You should know, in my “crime” the issue related to a charge that disclosures on 87,000 thousand dollars of bond issues, of the billions we sold and marketed in investment world wide, in a firm almost as large as Smith Barney operating in 14 countries and publicly traded, with a claim in court that there should have been a higher standard of disclosures on the small bond issue. Even though no funds were missing or misused by myself and it is record I never profited in any way from the “crime” of contempt. There was no charge or fraud or any of the normal stuff. We defended we met all legal standards and we believed we had and that we did. The prosecutor, my boy hood friend since early grade school in private Catholic education, and through my young adult life, chose to prosecute on the basis “this jury will send a higher standard to the brokers of America”. We defended the law and the facts but we were prosecuted on a CAUSE. Our loss has become the basis of the movie Malicious Prosecution over 20 years later. CEO SPACE has a flawless record, no litigation threatened or otherwise, and no investigations or even inquiries from any state or Federal agency. We are over compliant in all our dealings in over 100 nations and our work with heads of State and the United Nations appears on www.ceospacenation.net. If the blog on line caused you to feel uncomfortable, I can only say the issue over 20 years ago, was vicious and mean spirited in its nature. Also I ask how would that effect your use of CEO SPACE in 2010? I ask that you consider the very famous trainers that with full disclosure on this matter – far more than your blog discovery on line, fight one another to get slots to teach at CEO SPACE, where you work 99% with them and 1% with me. Put me in a bucket of “who cares” as I’m not what your investing in when you acquire a membership and diminish your decision based on “me”. I really am not a factor in your benefit. Your investing in a market place, and in enormous coaching resources, and you have money back guarantee that fully protects you from harm. If your still uncomfortable you will pass on CEO SPACE and we will bless your decision to do.
As you know I speak on the largest stages and venue platforms in the nation, most recently at the Super Bowl to athletes and in Dallas to NBA athletes. I’m booked from Paris to Hong Kong this year as the leading keynote address for huge conferences, and my past adds color to my “over compliance” doctrine where I tried to use my past as a positive asset to help other CEO’s to avoid even the most remote potential to find themselves in unexpected harm’s way as I did so many years ago. I’ve helped quite a few I believe and hope to help many more. Those at the top listen more because of my experience versus in spite of it. I recently spoke to 500 of the leading business owners in Romania at the Government’s request, meeting with the President of the nation and the minister of Finance. I am working with Governments from Pakistan to India to advance entrepreneur sector growth in their nations, with great pride and full disclosure.
I spend my life serving entrepreneurs in this final part of my sharing whatever gifts I have accumulated, now in my 60’s and my only objective is to foster improved results for small business owners. I hope this reply from our Club Presidents who are happy to discuss any further item with you on this topic, as is my long time personal attorney Maria Speth ( a litigator ) who teaches at class, so that your information is more rounded and complete. Although the blog world doesn’t let one reply adequately address the errors such “spin doctoring creates when revenge is the motivation”, I’d do the firing of the blogger individual all over again, because that decision protected our members. I did the right thing even if we have to forgo a good relationship as a consequence over the outflow this many years later. I’m sure you understand our desire to remove any discomfort for you with more full disclosure of the full facts.
The cost of leadership always has a penalty and I fully accept my responsibility.
Sincerely,
Berny Dohrmann
PS: Your open minded collection of greater factual detail is very much appreciated thank you. I’m not very skillful in the blog world and we have never sought to reply to this kind of thing as our legacy contributions are best displayed by the more than 2,000 hours of on line video testimonials from CEO”s worldwide who are active members from more than 100 nations world wide, which includes many law firms and attorneys. One of the Prosecuting attorneys with the government, from the time of this matter have for over a decade elected to teach on our faculty, which itself is a unique statement on the forgoing.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
THE BUSINESS EVENT OF THE YEAR, TRAVELLING THE US
Berny Dohrmann – Top Business Strategist and Founder of CEOSpace – demonstrates a financial GPS for you to navigate through the years ahead:
Bestselling author, multi-billionaire business investor and business specialist Berny Dohrmann shows you:
• How to recognise opportunities in this economic climate.
• Why it’s better to ask for a seat on the board – AND how to do this.
• The secrets to cooperative business-building.
• New ways to create wealth you’ve never even thought of.
• Powerful ways to network your way to business growth and success – and WHY this skill will be more important than ever on the economic road ahead.
Berny Dohrmann is the founder of CEO Space, a new model for executive training. Mr. Dohrmann is also the author of Money Magic, Growing Rich with Diamonds, Living Life as a Super Achiever, and Perfection CAN BE Had (now being made into a motion picture).
Mr. Dohrmann has operated billion dollar investment companies worldwide with offices in fourteen countries and his materials have been distributed in seven languages. Today, Berny Dohrmann teaches others how to enrich their own lives through his books, as well as his live events.
CEO Space is the world's oldest and largest network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors.
CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth.
CEO Space was founded by BJ Dohrmann, whose father was a mentor to Walt Disney, Napoleon Hill, Buckminster Fuller, JFK, Earl Nightingale and many others.
For the last thirty years, BJ has been known as "Coach of the Coaches" ...Anthony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Cannfield, Lisa Nichols, John Assaraf, Loral Langmier, T. Harv Ecker, John Gray, Bob Proctor, Robert Kiyosaki, Les Brown and just about any other big name you can think of, as well as head execs at companies like Starbucks, HSN, 3M, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, and many more. He is now counseling the United Nations and many foreign nations with regard to turning around the global economic crisis via Cooperative Capitalism.
About a third of the members are investors, including millionaires & billionaires. In just 5 meetings in the last year, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands.
Investors love CEO Space for three main reasons, among many....
1) Anonymity & Ability to get to know the principles intimately.
2) More quality deal flow in one place than anywhere on earth.
3) The opportunity to mentor and be mentored, no matter what level of one's stature.
If you would like to see Dohrmann Live at any in any of the following cities, inquire within:
Tuesday, February 9, Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, February 10 Denver, CO
Thursday, February 11 Salt Lake City, UT
Tuesday, February 16 Sillicon Valley, CA
Wednesday, February 17 Marin County, CA
Thursday, February 18 Eureka, CA
Monday, February 22 Sorrento Valley, CA
Tuesday, February 23 San Diego, CA
Wednesday, February 24 Irvine, CA AM Los Angeles, CA PM
Thursday, February 25 Irvine, CA
Friday, February 26 LAX, CA
Monday, February 22 Sorrento Valley, CA
Tuesday, February 23 San Diego, CA
Wednesday, February 24 Irvine, CA AM Los Angeles, CA PM
Thursday, February 25 Irvine, CA
Friday, February 26 LAX, CA
MARCH
Monday, March 1 Dallas, TX
Tuesday, March 2 Ft. Worth, TX
Wednesday, March 3 Austin, TX
Thursday, March 4 Houston, TX
Friday, March 5 Houston, TX
Tuesday, March 9 Baltimore, MD
Wednesday, March 10 Fairfax, VA
Thursday, March 11 Fairfax, VA
REMAINING SCHEDULE PENDING - Inquire Within
Bestselling author, multi-billionaire business investor and business specialist Berny Dohrmann shows you:
• How to recognise opportunities in this economic climate.
• Why it’s better to ask for a seat on the board – AND how to do this.
• The secrets to cooperative business-building.
• New ways to create wealth you’ve never even thought of.
• Powerful ways to network your way to business growth and success – and WHY this skill will be more important than ever on the economic road ahead.
Berny Dohrmann is the founder of CEO Space, a new model for executive training. Mr. Dohrmann is also the author of Money Magic, Growing Rich with Diamonds, Living Life as a Super Achiever, and Perfection CAN BE Had (now being made into a motion picture).
Mr. Dohrmann has operated billion dollar investment companies worldwide with offices in fourteen countries and his materials have been distributed in seven languages. Today, Berny Dohrmann teaches others how to enrich their own lives through his books, as well as his live events.
CEO Space is the world's oldest and largest network for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Visionary investors.
CEO Space is an entrepreneurial training and world class business networking organization, providing MBA-level training and development and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth.
CEO Space was founded by BJ Dohrmann, whose father was a mentor to Walt Disney, Napoleon Hill, Buckminster Fuller, JFK, Earl Nightingale and many others.
For the last thirty years, BJ has been known as "Coach of the Coaches" ...Anthony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Cannfield, Lisa Nichols, John Assaraf, Loral Langmier, T. Harv Ecker, John Gray, Bob Proctor, Robert Kiyosaki, Les Brown and just about any other big name you can think of, as well as head execs at companies like Starbucks, HSN, 3M, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, and many more. He is now counseling the United Nations and many foreign nations with regard to turning around the global economic crisis via Cooperative Capitalism.
About a third of the members are investors, including millionaires & billionaires. In just 5 meetings in the last year, CEO Space has generated over $3 Billion Dollars in funding for its members, while all the banks and venture capital firms were sitting on their hands.
Investors love CEO Space for three main reasons, among many....
1) Anonymity & Ability to get to know the principles intimately.
2) More quality deal flow in one place than anywhere on earth.
3) The opportunity to mentor and be mentored, no matter what level of one's stature.
If you would like to see Dohrmann Live at any in any of the following cities, inquire within:
Tuesday, February 9, Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, February 10 Denver, CO
Thursday, February 11 Salt Lake City, UT
Tuesday, February 16 Sillicon Valley, CA
Wednesday, February 17 Marin County, CA
Thursday, February 18 Eureka, CA
Monday, February 22 Sorrento Valley, CA
Tuesday, February 23 San Diego, CA
Wednesday, February 24 Irvine, CA AM Los Angeles, CA PM
Thursday, February 25 Irvine, CA
Friday, February 26 LAX, CA
Monday, February 22 Sorrento Valley, CA
Tuesday, February 23 San Diego, CA
Wednesday, February 24 Irvine, CA AM Los Angeles, CA PM
Thursday, February 25 Irvine, CA
Friday, February 26 LAX, CA
MARCH
Monday, March 1 Dallas, TX
Tuesday, March 2 Ft. Worth, TX
Wednesday, March 3 Austin, TX
Thursday, March 4 Houston, TX
Friday, March 5 Houston, TX
Tuesday, March 9 Baltimore, MD
Wednesday, March 10 Fairfax, VA
Thursday, March 11 Fairfax, VA
REMAINING SCHEDULE PENDING - Inquire Within
Saturday, January 2, 2010
The Business Resolutin
Where Entrepreneurs
Accelerate Their Businesses
at a Phenomenal Pace
What Idea, Project or Business Are You Working on and What is Your Next Step?
Are you seeking more customers, a business plan, business strategy, branding, marketing, licensing, distribution, social networking tips, legal advice, or are you looking to raise CAPITAL?
CEOSpace has helped our members (nearly 100,000 members in over 140 countries worldwide) raise over 3 BILLION Dollars in capital in the last year!
Please enter your name and email address in the form at www.GlobalCEOspace.com to receive your FREE REPORT: WORLD'S GREATEST BUSINESS SECRET as well as updates on our local events and announcements.
Why Is CEOSpace Right For Your Business?
Our week long forums, held five times a year, place our members into a dynamic network of executives, leaders and entrepreneurs. These forums provide MBA-level training and development, and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth. (March, May, July, October and December) We are not just a conference, seminar or another trade show. This is an extraordinary space of power and progress, a space strictly and solely designed to turn dreams and ideas into companies, and those businesses into profit making machines! Learn more...
What Is In It For YOU?
For over 20 years, CEO Space, members receive leading edge business skills training from world famous fortune trainers, contacts and clients to new markets, legal support, business mentors, access to funding resources, business planning, business and marketing plan writing experts, and capital plan formation.
Accelerate Their Businesses
at a Phenomenal Pace
What Idea, Project or Business Are You Working on and What is Your Next Step?
Are you seeking more customers, a business plan, business strategy, branding, marketing, licensing, distribution, social networking tips, legal advice, or are you looking to raise CAPITAL?
CEOSpace has helped our members (nearly 100,000 members in over 140 countries worldwide) raise over 3 BILLION Dollars in capital in the last year!
Please enter your name and email address in the form at www.GlobalCEOspace.com to receive your FREE REPORT: WORLD'S GREATEST BUSINESS SECRET as well as updates on our local events and announcements.
Why Is CEOSpace Right For Your Business?
Our week long forums, held five times a year, place our members into a dynamic network of executives, leaders and entrepreneurs. These forums provide MBA-level training and development, and an immersion experience of cooperation that results in income acceleration through exponential business growth. (March, May, July, October and December) We are not just a conference, seminar or another trade show. This is an extraordinary space of power and progress, a space strictly and solely designed to turn dreams and ideas into companies, and those businesses into profit making machines! Learn more...
What Is In It For YOU?
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Free CEO Space Telecalls with Leading Biz Experts
This Week:
5 INFORMATION PACKED CEO Space TELESEMINARS brought to you by Michelle Anton
1) Monday 12/7 – Chris Wise, Self made-millionaire
2) Tuesday 12/8 – Dr. Mignon Marquina, weight-loss entrepreneur
3) Wed 12/9 - Paula Fellingham, media mogul
4) Thursday 12/10 - Sherita Herring, grant guru
5) Friday 12/11 - Terri Treas, Hollywood producer
Monday night, December 8 – (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
2:00 PM Hawaii, 4:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Eastern
Meet a self-made millionaire who started his first business at 12.
Chris Wise – CEO Space graduate
Chris is a highly acclaimed and sought-after self-made millionaire with a natural knack for developing organizational systems. He has served as a professional consultant to over 100 corporations and individuals looking for proven solutions to increasing net worth. He is a CEO Space grad and you won’t want to miss this opportunity to talk to Chris and to hear some of his secrets to success.
Tuesday morning/noon, December 9 – (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
7:00 AM Hawaii. 9:00 AM Pacific, 10:00 AM Mountain, 11:00 PM Central, 12:00 Noon Eastern
This wife, mother, and medical doctor is launching her entrepreneurial dream.
Mignon Marquina M.D. - CEO Space graduate
Dr. Marquina has been trained by leaders in their fields at some of the most prestigious medical institutions in this country. She specializes in bariatric medicine and keeps her finger on the pulse of current therapies for obesity. Her experience at CEO Space has been transformational on many levels and
She brought her entrepreneurial dreams to CEO Space and the resources improved her business immediately. If you want to take your business to the next level don’t miss this important call.
Wednesday night, December 10 – (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
2:00 PM Hawaii, 4:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Eastern
Find out why CEO Space is a Dealmakers Dream come true.
Paula Fellingham
Paula has recently caught the attention of media outlets such as CNBC, GOOGLE News and The Hollywood Reporter to name a few. In September 2009 she and her business partners launched The Women's Information Network (The WIN). And it is quickly becoming the premier media and Social Network for women of all ages. The WIN is the first entity of its kind to provide a stage of high-quality content presented by experts incorporating a lively mix of formats, including articles, audio and video shows that address life-changing issues such as health and wellness, career and finance.
Learn why Paula treasures her contacts and resources at CEO Space and how it helped her launch this new media company.
Thursday morning/noon, December 11 – (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
7:00 AM Hawaii. 9:00 AM Pacific, 10:00 AM Mountain, 11:00 PM Central, 12:00 Noon Eastern
Would you prefer getting a loan that has to be paid back or a grant that doesn’t need to be repaid?
Sherita Herring - CEO Space Instructor
Sherita is a radio host, business coach and founder of the Kreative Images Foundation. She is a master at grant facilitation and appropriation, nonprofit formation and small business development. Learn about the fascinating world of grants and why smart entrepreneurs’ benefit from them.
Friday night, December 12 - (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
2:00 PM Hawaii, 4:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Eastern
Terri Treas - CEO Space grad Terri has been a major player in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. Her skills as a writer and producer for television shows such as, “Nash Bridges,” “Lois and Clark,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Pacific Blue” and “Felicity” have proved extremely profitable for the business community. Terri uses targeted marketing strategies, product development and branding to put her clients products and services foremost in the consumers mind. Terri builds product funnels, designs marketing plans and assists her clients in acquiring new business. Despite so many accomplishments, CEO Space has truly helped Terri’s business during these uncertain times. She will tell you what you can expect when you attend as well as the benefits and privileges of being a lifetime.
For more info after the calls, contact:
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Meet The Queen of QVC
FIND OUT HOW ONE OF OUR CEO Space GRADS MADE $16,000.00 A MINUTE WHEN SHE WAS ON QVC, OCTOBER 2009
Are you ready to be
America’s next BIG Success Story?
Start leveraging your life experience, contacts and passion at CEO Space NOW!
If You Have A Million Dollar IDEA, PRODUCT, SERVICE, BOOK or MOVIE & NEED CAPITAL - CLIENTS - EDUCATION - RESOURCES & SUPPORT...
Join us for one or all of our 1 hr. Teleseminars
SUNDAY, December 6th – (512) 225.3007 Access code 924836#
9:30 AM Hawaii, 11:30 AM Pacific, 12:30 PM Mountain, 1:30 PM Central, 2:30 PM Eastern
Special Guest
Dawn Bain – CEO Space graduate
In October 2009, Dawn Bain’s product generated $16,000 a minute when she was on QVC for 6 minutes. Dawn is a CEO Space success story. She is selling her products and hundreds of other client's products on QVC and television programs worldwide. She has strategic business partnerships in manufacturing, publishing and printing companies located in the United States and Asia.
Rand Brenner - CEO Space faculty member of twenty years
Rand Brenner's extensive career in entertainment licensing includes several high profile studios including Looney Tunes, Disney, Vice President of Licensing and Merchandising for Saban Entertainment ('Power Rangers' a worldwide licensing phenomenon), and Warner Bros. Consumer Products - 'Batman' which grossed over 1 billion dollars in retail sales, and when it comes to intellectual property (IP), there is NO recession. From industry shifting technologies to eco-friendly products to new on-line business models, the changing economy means opportunity, and demand has never been greater for innovative IP.
CEO Space
Our mission is to empower the human spirit to superior performance and intent through mastering Free Enterprise Skills unavailable from conventional education programs. Established in 1990, by Bernard Dohrmann, CEO Space is the largest and richest entrepreneurial club in the world.
Why CEO Space? Why now?
If you are serious when you say you want to take your business to the next level, CEO Space has a 20-year outstanding track record of working with early stage companies as well as huge, successful, multi-million dollar organizations - taking them to the next level.
You'll join the largest and fastest growing business development club on the planet.
You'll learn from, network with, and dine with Fortune 500, 100 and 50 trainers (every faculty member has their own table - you choose with whom you wish to sit).
Why are we doing this?
We are growing and growing and growing. We are committed to our December 2009 program being the largest in the 20-year history of CEO Space. For you? More contacts, resources, and investors.
To accomplish this, we are making it so easy for you, so easy in fact, "yes" is the only logical answer.
Now is the time to take ACTION
Make your investment
Take the tax deduction
(Pay the IRS, or pay yourself!)
Dave Phillipson
CEO Space
www.GlobalCEOspace.com
Dave@GlobalCEOspace.com
RECESSION & ENTRPRENEUERS
This post has nothing to do with the fact that Obama's Small Business Summit did not include any small business.
RECESSION = ENTREPRENEURS ARE THE WAY BACK……….
When the economic sky fell last year and CEOs and workers alike were stuffing cash under their mattresses, it didn't seem like the right moment for big plans, much less a wholesale reshaping of the way entire industries operate. But during the last year, as the shock has subsided, Americans looking at the collapse of corporate culture and finance, the loss of job security, and inscrutable government solutions are coming to the same conclusion as Fisker: We don't have to do things the same way. We can take the economy in hand and drive our own destinies. And a movement that has been slowly building in the business world is finally taking hold: We're seeing the beginnings of the entrepreneurial economy, a system built on nimble, low-overhead, oftentimes small companies with fluid workforces, rather than the massive conglomerates that have upheld the economy for decades.
Oddly enough, the recession seems to be adding momentum: By choice or necessity, more people are pursuing self-employment as an alternative to an iffy corporate existence. The number of small businesses created in 2008 was still at pre-recession levels, according to the latest data from the Small Business Administration, contrary to most economic indicators. The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which measures new startups, shows a slight uptick during the same time period, and that is expected to continue through 2009. Self-employment rates have been growing at an average of 4.5 percent annually most of this decade, adding roughly 1 million people per year, and they are expected to keep pace or spike when the 2008 and 2009 numbers are released. Across the country, enrollment in entrepreneurship programs at universities is booming.
Factor in new technology like cloud computing, says Michael S. Malone, author of "The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You," and it all adds up to the world's first truly entrepreneurial society. "Suddenly, you don't have to have a large physical plant to start a company," he says. "The cost of entry is getting close to zero — now the little guys can build a business without the overhead. The best strategy is to get small and adaptable, strip things to a solid core and hire from the cloud of talent out there — then blow up like a puffer fish when you encounter a potential market."
George Solomon, co-director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence at George Washington University, and other business academics share a similar vision: "In the future," he says, "the net source of new jobs will be predominately created from an entrepreneurial climate, not from revitalizing old industries."
Indeed, the idea of entrepreneurship is so powerful right now and resonates with so many American values that President Obama has repeatedly called on entrepreneurs to lift the U.S. out of the economic crisis. So key is the idea to Obama's recovery mission that he has even reached out to the Middle East by promising an entrepreneurship summit to bridge the business and cultural gap. In September, his Commerce Department launched the Office for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to bolster startup companies.
The rise of the entrepreneur economy isn't just an academic thought experiment or political buzzword — a growing number of companies such as Dell, Cisco and Facebook have used small and agile management techniques to produce breakout success. One of the best examples may be Vizio, whose meteoric rise has helped push old-guard corporations such as Fujitsu, Pioneer and Apex to exit the television business and companies like Philips to license their flat-panel units.
Back in 2002, California businessman William Wang watched as the bursting of the dot-com bubble took its toll on his computer monitor manufacturing company, Princeton Digital. But instead of cashing out, Wang and his partners decided to tack in a different direction — they realized they could use their expertise and many of the same components used in monitors to manufacture low-cost flat-screen TVs, which at the time were big-ticket luxury items.
So Wang sold Princeton and incorporated Vizio. He and his colleagues decided against vertical integration and sinking capital into a high-tech manufacturing plant and research department. Like Fisker, instead of reinventing the wheel, they searched for the cheapest, high-quality electronic components offered by suppliers and contracted with overseas manufacturers. Within five years, Vizio and its sub-$2,000 televisions had captured the top spot as the No. 1 flat-screen manufacturer in the U.S., with $1.9 billion in annual sales. For a major electronics corporation, it has an astonishingly small staff — only 162 people are on the payroll in Vizio's California offices and South Dakota call center, most dealing with marketing, sales and product development.
"Our competitors are trying to offer low price point products, but their businesses haven't seen structural change — they're still the old vertically integrated companies, with the TV unit beholden to sister divisions," says Laynie Newsome, one of Vizio's founders. "They're losing hundreds of millions of dollars supporting their TV businesses."
Without massive investments in production facilities and research, Vizio can shift its business quickly. This year, it dropped plasma televisions to focus on traditional LCD models, as well as LCDs using LED technology, which it decided had reached a quality rivaling plasma at a cheaper price point. But if a new plasma technology turns the tables, Vizio's low-inventory model means it can readjust and have a new product in the marketplace in weeks or months — the same reason it could quickly shift into making smaller 19- to 26-inch TVs when the recession hit.
"It's been fun, being more agile and faster," Newsome says. "We put a lot of thought into our product and ask, 'What does the consumer want that's better than what's out there now?' "
Starting a business in a recession
It's hard for smaller entrepreneurs — ones who might not be outsourcing millions in electronics overseas — to see a silver lining in the recession or imagine how "small" could be to their advantage. But the truth is, starting or reforming a business when the economy is down isn't a liability and can offer some real benefits. Research by Dane Stangler, senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, shows that more than half of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the country were formed during economic tough times and that starting in a down economy does not put the companies at a disadvantage. The same amount survived five years later regardless of whether they were formed under the sign of the bear or the bull.
Christopher Gergen, director of the Entrepreneurship Leadership Center at Duke University and co-author of "Life Entrepreneurs," says the down economy has plenty of competitive pluses for new business owners willing to adopt smarter tactics. "There are essentially now gaps in services in cities throughout the country, and traditionally competitive companies are overly leveraged and weakened," he says. "There's really an opportunity for a company that's more nimble and offers something of real value to the community to hustle around the competition."
That strength is bolstered by factors such as the Internet, cheaper office space and increased negotiating room with suppliers. Fisker Automotive, for example, is considering a factory in the United States, something that Fisker says would have been unthinkable before the recession
The maturation of cloud computing is also taking some of the startup burden out of small business. Inventory, customer management, accounting, shipping, corporate communications and even human resources can be outsourced to the digital ether as a cluster of web-based services and applications sweep away the need for large office spaces and a large pool of employees.
The other part of the equation is talent — with national unemployment rates around 10 percent and the rate for the under-25 crowd over 50 percent, hiring employees has become easier and less expensive. Even professionals with no long-term plans to stay in the freelance business are willing to consult while they wait for big business to start hiring again. "There are so many good, creative people on the sidelines right now," Gergen says. "Many of them are willing to freelance or work for commission while they wait for a headhunter to snap them up."
But many of those freelancers won't head back into mainstream corporate employment. That's partly because, besides the perks of being their own boss and controlling their financial future, entrepreneurship has gained status as a legitimate career path. Thirty years ago, the term "entrepreneur" conjured up images of men selling shrimp out of the back of trucks or get-rich-quick schemes preying on seniors. Now tech entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are rock stars, and there's been a cultural shift as the public grasped the economic potential of highly motivated, idea-driven individuals.
For Gen Yers, more than any other group, entrepreneurs have become heroes. Entrepreneurship programs at accredited universities have jumped from just a handful 10 years ago to more than 200 entrepreneurship centers today, and more than 500 higher-ed institutions offer certificates, minors, or majors in entrepreneurial studies. According to one recent poll, 51 percent of teens hope to one day start their own business, and see it as a way to take greater control of their lives.
Of course, the big elephant in the economy of 2010 is still financing. The credit crunch has eased only slightly in the last year, and has been especially stubborn in the small-business sector. According to Scott Shane, a professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University and a writer for The New York Times Web site, the promised $730 million in SBA loans included in the stimulus bill for 2009 and 2010 is only a drop in the bucket and is unlikely to crack open the system. But historically, more than 50 percent of entrepreneurs have launched their businesses without loans, relying instead on the informal "friends, family and fools" formula for startup cash.
"People are assuming the ability to raise capital is more difficult and are approaching the process differently. It's a changing model," Shane says. "They are using more and more of their own money, so it's about redesigning a business.
"When an entrepreneur sees they need half a million to buy all the equipment and hire people to launch a business, they start thinking, 'What if I leased my equipment and paid employees on commission?' The percentage of people reporting that they don't need outside financing to start a business is higher now than before the recession."
Robert Fairlie, who tracks the demographics of entrepreneurs at University of California, Santa Cruz says the numbers bear that idea out. In 2008, more low-overhead, low-revenue businesses were launched than in previous years, and he expects the same when 2009 numbers are released.
Mike Michaud thinks his business wouldn't have gotten off the ground if he had started in a brighter economy.
In 2007, Michaud was fired from his job as a clerk at the Darien, Ill., Circuit City, for "making too much money." So, with two 20-something friends, he decided to take a chance on an idea he'd batted around the break room for more than a year. Funded by a $5,000 loan from a friend's father and part-time jobs, Michaud, Doug Walker and Mike Ellis started work on Channel Awesome, a Web-based TV network that would host all original content.
Then one of their first sites, That Guy With the Glasses, featuring snarky movie reviews and question-and-answer bits starring Walker, went viral on YouTube. So they switched gears and tried to capitalize on the popularity of the character. A little more than a year after launching thatguywiththeglasses.com, they're averaging 16.5 million page views a month and making $150,000 in revenue.
"If I was working a job in commission retail, I don't know if I would have had the time or desire to do this — I know we wouldn't be making decent money already," Michaud says. But the economy also forced them to be smarter about the way they structured their business and approached advertisers. And Michaud thinks their small budget and frugal beginnings have given "That Guy With the Glasses" a competitive advantage in the fast-growing field of web video. "We've been cheap all the way through," he says, "and we'll be coming through as the economy picks up."
They're slowly diversifying their Web site, too, and circling back to the idea of a web-based TV channel. Already, they've launched shows dedicated to video games and bar reviews, and they're prepping sports and sketch comedy shows. In total, they plan to host 300 original content series.
Whatever curveballs the next year, or years, throws at the economy, it's clear that the landscape has changed. Instead of sitting by and watching their futures grow bleaker, companies and workers are harnessing impressive changes in business culture and technology to create a grass-roots economy — a broad swath of many small businesses that can bend with the changing winds.
"The entrepreneurial spirit is there," author Malone says, and it's going to be even stronger when the economy recovers. "There are certain things you can't change, and one of them is the zeitgeist that has developed around entrepreneurship over the last 100 years. America is populated by ambitious mavericks. The news events of today aren't going to change that."
This post attributed to Berny Dohrmann
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