“I had the privilege of hearing you speak at last year’s eBay Radio Party, and again this year at the Sellers’ Conference of Online Entrepreneurs (SCOE) conference in Philadelphia. “You seem like a pretty smart lawyer, and you’ve got lots of good information, but the best thing about you is your ability to make the […]
The 24-7 media circus surrounding former US Olympian Bruce Jenner’s transition from male to female has raised several questions in employers’ minds: do we have transgender employees in our organization? If so, what are our legal obligations to them, if any? If you are a small employer with employees in only a single state, the […]
As my readers know, twice a year I judge the Connecticut Business Plan Competition, where students from business schools and undergraduate business programs throughout Connecticut compete for cash prizes and mentoring from leading business experts, in a format very similar to the popular “SharkTank” television show. This spring’s event featured 13 teams from throughout the […]
Over two million Americans make a full-time or part-time living selling merchandise on Amazon.com. Roughly 200 of them attended last week’s Sellers’ Conference of Online Entrepreneurs (SCOE) in Philadelphia, a semi-annual trade show focused entirely on the do’s and don’t’s of selling on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other popular online retail platforms. Attendees were treated […]
For the past year, I have taught an MBA-level online class on “entrepreneurship and small business management” for a local university. Rather than give students a traditional final exam, with multiple choice and true/false questions, I have adopted a “Zen exam” approach. Each question is a real-world entrepreneurial challenge that not only tests the students’ […]