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50-page written Business Plan vs. PowerPoint summary?

3/29/2013

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Mike Carruthers is the creator and host of Something You Should Know, an award winning, daily radio program aired multiple times per day on over 150 stations across the U.S.  Check out his web site as the content is terrific. 

Mike has been incredibly helpful to me over the past few months trying to advance our initiative for the MBA Business Planning and Entrepreneurship course in terms of raising our Program's profile and attracting the best 20 ideas.  In an effort to return the favor, I asked him how we could be of help, and he indicated he's piloting a new project on entrepreneurship, using long-form interviews of entrepreneurs, regarding how they have developed winning businesses over the years.  As a trial segment to gauge listener / viewer interest, he recently interviewed me about the need for a 50-page Business Plan vs. a PowerPoint summary.  Please check-out the 30-minute interview here and please contact Mike at mike@somethingyoushouldknow.net with your opinions or post them here, or on our Facebook site.  

Finally, Mike also serves as an executive and media coach (www.MasterMediaCoaching.com) to train authors, experts and entrepreneurs on how to use media exposure to promote their efforts.  If you would like to bounce off some ideas re: career planning, he offers these (paid) services, as well.

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The Language of Business Show debuts 4/2 on TV and YouTube

3/27/2013

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Are you starting a new business?  Where do you begin?  The Language of Business TV show debuts on 4/2, on TV, and YouTube. 

Each 30-minute broadcast will involve three separate entrepreneur interviews. The first two guests have opposite positions on the same issue.  Our third guest, an entrepreneur in the midst of implementing an actual business, offers their perspective.

Episode #1 explores the need for a 50-page written Business Plan, in today's fast-paced, text-message laden, and short attention span business environment.  The first guest (Tony Solomons of Ideal Marketing Group) doesn't believe such a document is always necessary anymore, while Jeff Hulton of Sporting Photo Art feels differently.  Our 3rd guest, Cindy Brown, will provide her thoughts, as she builds Boston's first Ice Bar, Frost.

Please support our Show by tuning in and visiting our Facebook site!

The 1-minute promo for the Show is below, followed by photos of our guests.
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Radio Entrepreneurs: Parlaying participation in international programming into possible jobs for MBAs, and how these Field Studies are planned and implemented

3/26/2013

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This is my latest segment on Radio Entrepreneurs discussing how some of our MBAs have parlayed their participation in international Field Study courses into jobs both in the US and overseas, and how these programs are planned and implemented. 
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Latest Radio Entrepreneurs segment: Social Media and Business Plan course outreach

3/22/2013

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This is my latest segment on Radio Entrepreneurs. The 10-minute audio clip discusses the use of social media in aiding my outreach re: obtaining 20 of the best ideas for my fall MBA Business Plan course.  


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Great article on Mentor component of BC Business Plan course

3/20/2013

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This is a great piece by writer Tim Gray on Mr. Drew Hannah, one of our long-time Mentors for my BC MBA Business Plan Course.  We're truly thankful to Drew (and Tim) for all they do to support our Boston College MBA program.


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Overshores Brewery to begin production this summer

3/20/2013

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Congratulations to Christian Amport, whose new brewery will begin production this summer. This is another idea from my BC MBA Business Plan Course which is going live.

You can find the entire press release here, or I'm pasting in a summary below.

Good luck, Christian!

We are in the process of building out our production facilities and are pleased to announce that Overshores Brewing Co. will be producing its three signature beers—the Simpel, the Tripel Brun, and the Belgique du Noire—for shipment beginning in the second half of this year.

Overshores beer has been long awaited by beer connoisseurs around state since the start-up debuted at the 2011 CPTV Craft Beer and Chili Challenge and stood out as the third place finisher in a field of over 70 breweries, including a number of true Belgian imports. In 2012, Overshores returned to the event and was awarded first place, beating over 85 other established breweries.

“After several years of refining our product line and securing financing, we are thrilled to have moved to East Haven and begun the build-out of our production facility,” said Christian Amport, founder and president of Overshores Brewing Co. “Our Belgian style beer has received such a warm welcome in Connecticut and it is satisfying to know that in a few short months people will be able to purchase it directly from their local bar or liquor store.”

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MBA student team headed to Houston for Rice University Business Plan Competition

3/18/2013

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One of our MBA student teams, continuing their work from my fall Business Plan course is headed to the Rice University Business Plan Competition in April.  Here's a synopysis of the venture idea they sent in today, which comes courtesy of BC's Sciences Department. This competition is a combination of written work and a series of live presentations.  Good luck to the full-time, 2nd year students: Emily Fannon, Robert Sherwood, Andrew Starr, Yinhe (Terry) Zhou and Meghan Zipin.

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Great Boston Herald article on Boston's first Ice Bar

3/15/2013

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Congratulations to Cindy Brown on some great press in the Boston Herald today on Boston's first Ice Bar.  As you'll recall, this came out of my BC MBA Business Plan course.

Cindy will be one of my first guests in the debut of the Language of Business TV Show, airing in the next 2-3 weeks.  Finally, and in case you missed it, here's Cindy's interview about the Ice Bar on Radio Entrepreneurs.

Enjoy, 

Greg




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New Promotional Video on BC MBA Consulting Project and Business Plan Course

3/14/2013

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Here is a 4-minute promotional video we just completed to identify prospective companies / entrepreneurs for both of these graduate courses. Many thanks to Dr. Jeff Ringuest, Scott McDermott, Marc Mandel, Don Kelley, Scott Kinder, Gabriel LaRusso, Elizabeth Clark, John Gillooly, Tony Rinaldo, Darren Herlihy, Jonathan Sage, Joe Prideaux, BC Communications and Carroll School Communications for their collective teamwork and effort on this. 
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International Entrepreneurship Field Trip to Mojitos Lounge

3/11/2013

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Tonight my Boston College International Entrepreneurship graduate course visited one of our alumnae, Jody Mendoza, at her nightclub Mojitos, in Boston.  The discussion focused on the launching of Jody's business, how she's navigated her partnership, and how she'll be expanding the Club moving forward.  Two pictures from the evening are below. 

Jody worked on the Mojitos Business Plan, in part, while she was a full-time MBA student.  She also participated in my fall 2012 Business Planning and Entrepreneurship course and will soon be launching a new expansion to the business involving food.  Here's a great article on Jody and her husband, Latin America music producer Richy Pena.  We wish them the best of luck with their current business, and its expansion!
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