Monthly Archives: September 2008

Your Brand is Always On Display

I am not much of a “brand marketer”.  I am a firm believer that the only point of marketing is to expedite the sales process.  Too many marketers think that their job is to build a brand.   But branding is …

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Entrepreneurial Archives

The Board of Advisers at Wasabi Ventures has been in this business since the early ’90s.  Therefore, they have a knowledge base that extends over the years. As a new addition to Tales of the Entrepreneur, “classic” articles written by …

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“Deep Pockets, Short Arms”

Wasabi Ventures has a friend, Hon, who has been unbelievably successful.  He has built companies and had huge windfall successes and because of these wins, our friend has a hefty bankroll.  But he also is uncommonly frugal — personally frugal …

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Small Ice Age and the Small Furry Start-Up

We are in the midst of one of the great economic meltdowns and revolutions of our lifetime.  The financial markets crisis that has seen Lehman Brothers go bankrupt, AIG on the brink of collapse, and JP Morgan Chase sold at …

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