Last night I had the opportunity to attend the fifteenth annual UCF Business Hall of Fame Induction event. The event had a “Roaring twenties” theme and having attended the event the last several years… I must say that this Hall of Fame induction event topped them all! The event was held at the Rosen Shingle Creek…
It’s that time of the year again! Two teams are going to battle it out this Sunday to earn the right to be NFL Super Bowl champions. My team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, had a disappointing season and fell just short of making the playoffs. Truth be told…I don’t really care about the Seattle SeaHawks or…
Howdy fellow and perspective entrepreneurs, Today I am sharing a valuable resource with you. As entrepreneurs you have to think about a lot – your products & services, operations, marketing, funding, industry trends, sales, and more. It helps to have something that keeps you organized and ensures you’re thinking about all the aspects of your…
My clients, mentors and most of my closest friends all have one major thing in common…they are all entrepreneurs. This being the case, you could imagine that I spend a lot of time around those involved in entrerpreneurship! I am with entrepreneurs as they express their challenges and share obstacles that lay ahead of them….
An entrepreneurial venture or endeavor often starts with recognizing a problem and leading the charge to develop a value-added offering to solve that problem. An entrepreneur has a vision in his mind for a better future that could exist if things were done differently. Entrepreneurs are also willing to take the risk necessary to bring…
You want your venture to take off…yes it’s true. It hasn’t yet and you’re feeling blue. Wondering what you need to do? Make Powerful RHYMES to see your vision through. Ok…that was corny. I know. But, hear me out. Last week I was reflecting about what a start-up needs to be successful. In the end…
During the month of October I was requested to speak several times at the University of Central Florida about my entrepreneurial journey. The first was to a group of students within the student union at Blackstone Launch Pad, a phenomenal center created to help spark entrepreneurship across UCF’s campus. Here is a pic from a…
Six years ago I decided to come to Orlando and it was one of the best decisions that I have ever made. In my heart, and based on my research, I believed that Orlando was a growing city ripe with many opportunities for entrepreneurs. I expressed the thoughts and feelings I had at the time…
We recently launched a new suite of features on Bright Impact that I am very excited about….Goals, Objectives and tasks. This suite of features enables groups to set a goal for the amount of impact that they want to achieve and track their progress. The impact could be monetary donations, volunteer hours, non-cash donations, Economic…
Last week I was going through an old notebook and came across a poem that I wrote seven years ago. A poem? Yes, I know it may sound cheesy, but it was a very therapeutic way for me to express what I was thinking and feeling at the time. When I read the poem it…