Category Archives: Parenthood

A Different Kind of Giving

BARBARA HEMPHILL, CPO® is one of the country’s leading productivity experts. As a speaker and consultant on organizing, Barbara helps individuals and organizations create and sustain a productive environment. She is author of the best-selling “Taming the Paper Tiger” book …

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Self-Employment: Like Raising a Toddler

About the Author: John J. Walters is a freelance associate at Wasabi Ventures and CEO of MeetingCaptain. After about eight or nine months spent working from home and about the same amount of time “playing house” I have come to …

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Children and The Start-Up Life: Parallel Images

All of the general partners at WV are parents of school age children.  And like most parents, we spend a great deal of time with our children.  We take them to their various doctor appoints, swim lessons, gymnastics classes, and …

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It is a Company, Not a Child

One of the toughest things for an entrepreneur to do is to cut ties from something they started. It does not matter if it is a positive severing of involvement (e.g. a personally profitable acquisition) or a bad ending (e.g. …

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