Jon Lieber, Furqan Nazeeri, Rob May and Ryan Traeger are my guests and this episode should air in less than two weeks.  The Language of Business is now broadcast on over 30 stations in the US, coast-to-coast.  It's been extremely helpful, to date, achieving our primary objective to generate project leads for our Boston College Consulting and Business Plan courses. 

Jon Lieber
Jon Lieber is a seasoned financial and operations executive with strong leadership skills and significant experience in: strategic planning, capital raising, investor/board relations, budgeting and financial reporting, and mergers and acquisitions in emerging growth companies.  Here's his LinkedIn profile. 

Furqan Nazeeri 
Furqan Nazeeri is a technology entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience building and managing high growth software companies. He is currently a Partner at extensionEngine and is the founder or co-founder of 3 high tech startups.  Click here for his LinkedIn profile. 

Rob May
Rob is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and as an avid writer, Rob started the successful Business Pundit blog and currently contributes to publications such as VentureBeat and Wired. Rob was recently named to Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 which honors the city's top leaders. Here's his LinkedIn profile. 

Ryan Traeger
Ryan Traeger began his career as an advertising executive, and while pursuing his MBA at Boston College, he founded achvr. achvr is a social media tool used for tracking, discovering and sharing interests.  You can learn more about Ryan on his LinkedIn profile.

Our two Asian International Consulting Project teams have just sent their reports off to China, capping off six months of intensive consulting for the clients of our partner CCAFM.  We'll be headed to Beijing in two weeks to further refine our work with CCAFM's consultants, and then formally present it to to their clients.  More information is available on this course's web site, and here is the Radio Entrepreneurs interview link which aired earlier tonight about the experience.  We're honored that this is our 10th year working with CCAFM!  Congratulations to our BC MBA and LAW students on a stellar job from start to finish.

You've built up your company and you’re beginning to taste success—congratulations!  What do you do next to capitalize on it? 

On the next Language of Business, entrepreneurs debate when to expand, merge, sell or IPO their start-ups.

We continue our trek on location for Episode #10 (Capitalizing on Business Accomplishments).  The photo below is from Backupify in Cambridge, reprinted with permission.

Continuous business improvement for start-ups, and established ventures: The Language of Business.

Jon Lieber, Furqan Nazeeri, Rob May and Ryan Traeger are my guests and this episode should air in about 3 weeks, or so.  The Language of Business is now broadcast on over 30 stations in the US, coast-to-coast.  It's been extremely helpful, to date, achieving our primary objective to generate project leads for our Boston College Consulting and Business Plan courses. 

Jon Lieber
Jon Lieber is a seasoned financial and operations executive with strong leadership skills and significant experience in: strategic planning, capital raising, investor/board relations, budgeting and financial reporting, and mergers and acquisitions in emerging growth companies.  Here's his LinkedIn profile. 

Furqan Nazeeri 
Furqan Nazeeri is a technology entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience building and managing high growth software companies. He is currently a Partner at extensionEngine and is the founder or co-founder of 3 high tech startups.  Click here for his LinkedIn profile. 

Rob May
Rob is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and as an avid writer, Rob started the successful Business Pundit blog and currently contributes to publications such as VentureBeat and Wired. Rob was recently named to Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 which honors the city's top leaders. Here's his LinkedIn profile. 

Ryan Traeger
Ryan Traeger began his career as an advertising executive, and while pursuing his MBA at Boston College, he founded achvr. achvr is a social media tool used for tracking, discovering and sharing interests.  You can learn more about Ryan on his LinkedIn profile.

What can go wrong usually does, but that doesn’t mean it has to sink your business.  Also, if you believe necessity is the mother of invention, successfully working through risks might actually be beneficial to your business long term.

Episode #9 (Risk Assessment) is now on-the-air. The full 30-minute episode is here, featuring Bill Contente, Robert Goodof, Christopher Mirabile and Scott Allen. Click on their names below for the individual interview segments.

Continuous business improvement for start-ups, and established ventures: The Language of Business.

Bill Contente

As a corporate lawyer and senior partner at Gesmer Updegrove, Bill has provided clients with quality legal advice, practical business guidance and value-added services that drive revenue and increase profitability for 25 years. For hundreds of companies, Bill has negotiated, drafted and closed venture capital financings, angel financings and successful exits, introduced clients to financing sources and “C” level team members, and engaged in strategic discussions to keep clients focused on success. His LinkedIn profile is here. 


Robert Goodof

Bob has worked as a senior equity analyst, covering chemicals, oil and gas, alternative energy, and industrial equities, with special emphasis on in depth fundamentals, valuation frameworks, and mentoring. He was selected Best of the Buy Side 1998 and 2004, and has helped to start and manage the Off Wall Street Energy Symposium, an annual conference of energy executives and public/private investors, in Jackson Hole.  Click here for his LinkedIn profile. 


Christopher Mirabile 

Christopher Mirabile is the co-Managing Director of LaunchPad Venture Group, a venture investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. Launchpad is the largest angel group in New England and top-three ranked group in the U.S. Christopher is a full-time angel and an active member of the Boston-area angel investing community with more than fifty investments in start-up companies. Click here for more of Christopher on LinkedIn. 


Scott Allen

Scott is the VP and General Manager of MS Walker.  M.S. Walker is a wholesale distributor of wines and spirits based in Massachusetts since 1933. They serve retail stores, restaurants and hotels, and also manufacture their own brands of spirit products, which are marketed in 42 states. Additionally, M.S. Walker acts as a marketing agent for many of its suppliers in all of the New England States, as well as an Agency Importer of select national brands, and also as an Importer of several wine brands from regions around the world.  Here's the company's web site. 

Bill Contente, Robert Goodof, Christopher Mirabile and Scott Allen are my guests.  The Show is now broadcast on over 20 stations in the US, coast-to-coast.  It's been extremely helpful, to date, achieving our primary objective to generate project leads for our Boston College Consulting and Business Plan courses.  The full episode wil be released in the next few days. 


Bill Contente

As a corporate lawyer and senior partner at Gesmer Updegrove, Bill has provided clients with quality legal advice, practical business guidance and value-added services that drive revenue and increase profitability for 25 years. For hundreds of companies, Bill has negotiated, drafted and closed venture capital financings, angel financings and successful exits, introduced clients to financing sources and “C” level team members, and engaged in strategic discussions to keep clients focused on success. His LinkedIn profile is here. 


Robert Goodof

Bob has worked as a senior equity analyst, covering chemicals, oil and gas, alternative energy, and industrial equities, with special emphasis on in depth fundamentals, valuation frameworks, and mentoring. He was selected Best of the Buy Side 1998 and 2004, and has helped to start and manage the Off Wall Street Energy Symposium, an annual conference of energy executives and public/private investors, in Jackson Hole.  Click here for his LinkedIn profile. 


Christopher Mirabile 

Christopher Mirabile is the co-Managing Director of LaunchPad Venture Group, a venture investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. Launchpad is the largest angel group in New England and top-three ranked group in the U.S. Christopher is a full-time angel and an active member of the Boston-area angel investing community with more than fifty investments in start-up companies. Click here for more of Christopher on LinkedIn. 


Scott Allen

Scott is the VP and General Manager of MS Walker.  M.S. Walker is a wholesale distributor of wines and spirits based in Massachusetts since 1933. They serve retail stores, restaurants and hotels, and also manufacture their own brands of spirit products, which are marketed in 42 states. Additionally, M.S. Walker acts as a marketing agent for many of its suppliers in all of the New England States, as well as an Agency Importer of select national brands, and also as an Importer of several wine brands from regions around the world.  Here's the company's web site. 

Congrats, once again, to our winning MBA team.  Please follow this link.

Greg

Congratulations to our 2013 Business Plan competition winner: Bump Water.

Entrepreneur: Spencer Wilcox
BC MBA Students: Jared Hamilton, Robert Hayden, Alyssa Hill, Mary Lentowski, Alison Shaw, Brendan Syron
3rd year Law Student: Maria Korjenevitch
Mentor: Alice Cornish White

Picture reprinted below with permission by Mary Lentowski.

The five teams which made the Business Planning and Entrepreneurship Finals are hours away from delivering their presentations.  The competition begins at 2:00 pm, in Fulton Hall, Room 511.  

Here's an Op-Ed piece from the Boston Business Journal on global commerce. "Think global, act local" is the objective, but sometimes things don't work out as planned...

Congratulations to entrepreneurs Ryan Traeger, Dr. Bob Radin, Spencer Wilcox, Greg McHale and Dr. Michael Naughton. Their concepts / MBA teams are advancing to the Finals on Friday at Boston College.  The event begins at 2:00 pm in Fulton Hall, Room 511.

Overall, our 18 teams did an amazing job today and some Angels are already inquiring about investment opportunties.

Photos are below, reprinted courtesy of Kristen Baumann.

Greg