The Business Plan Pitching Case Studies course dissects 7 business plan pitches that I analyze for stuff that I like and dislike, for ideas that work and don’t. Combined with the pitching for Startup framework it tells you everything I have learnt about making and grading pitches over the last 11 years as an entrepreneur and business plan competition judge.
Entrepreneurship
Who generates more traffic? Facebook, Google Plus, Linkedin or Google Search. A Traffic generation comparison study
August 5, 2011
But after being hit by Panda in April, I had started wondering about exploring non-search sources of traffic. My Linkedin network had about 1,000 connections, the Facebook Fan page boosted 240 + 500 friends, Google+ had quickly grown to a network of 300 people and search was obviously search. Comparing the results of a traffic generation campaign for an e-learning blog focused on Finance
IRS Pricing and Value at Risk store goes live at Learning Corporate Finance
September 9, 2010
After a number of requests for an offline, easier to use, read and work with electronic version of our courses, Learning Corporate Finance announces the soft launch of its online course inventory store. For soft launch, our most popular Value at Risk (VaR) and Interest Rate Derivatives courses have been converted into PDF files with supporting Excel calculation examples. Pricing …Read the Rest
Startup Deals – The paradox of large customers
May 25, 2010
Is there any correlation between targeting large customers, executing large orders, and new venture failure? I believe so. New ventures, with rare exception, lack the depth to handle large assignments and contracts. Without sufficient depth, new ventures make bad short-term calls on pricing, delivery terms, hiring, concessions, and service-level agreements that put them on track for eventual failure. It’s about …Read the Rest
Startup Founders: Borrowed time, non-core distractions, or why diversification is a four letter word?
May 25, 2010
You are living on borrowed time. Each day that you don’t generate cash is a day closer to the end. The new-venture lifestyle burns you out personally and financially faster than any professional route known to mankind. The hours are longer, the stress higher, the baggage heavier, the money rarely enough. Then the sacrifices start calling. Initially the suffering is …Read the Rest
Technorati Top 100 – Crude Oil Insights
May 24, 2010
So before Technorati wakes up and tells me that it was all a cruel sad mistake and there is no way on this planet (or any other for that matter) that anyone sane is going to entrust me with a 550 rating, that too for a collection of really badly drawan excel graphs and equally inadequate technical writing, I thought …Read the Rest
And we are hot…Technorati top 100 here we are…
May 24, 2010
The crude oil insight blog, breaks into the first technorati top 100 lists with an authority rating of 550. I have no idea how the hell did that happens (I have a few sneaking suspicions). For a blog that started off in February and is still ranked with a page rank of only 2.0, the 550 rating and the Technorati …Read the Rest
My Google Adsense mis-adventure – Invasion of the spiders, help please – Part III
May 23, 2010
Since we are on topic, I thought I would also post the Statpress snapshot. Is this normal? I have about 80 – 100 unique visitors with 425 pageviews (which is fine) but 2,513 spiders in a day and by the time I am done with may I would have had the dubious distinction of having being visited by 62,700 spiders …Read the Rest
My Google Adsense mis-adventure – Site portfolio and profiles – Part II
May 23, 2010
Here is the profile of my adsense enabled sites, their traffic patterns and their revenue contribution over the last three months. I am open to any tips, suggestions, ideas and thoughts that will help me double or triple these numbers in the next four weeks. Desi Back To Desh blog The very first blog that I started writing in 2004 …Read the Rest
My Adsense mis-adventure – Struggling to break 3 dollars a month – Part I
May 23, 2010
I thought I would fess up today and share the progress or lack of it made on the Google Adsense project in the first three months. If you have been following me around you know that around early February I decided to build a printing press for printing US dollars (or the money machine as Jay put it a few …Read the Rest
