As fellow entrepreneurs, Linda and I are often meeting with friends and colleagues looking for the best way to get started with a new website. And the great news is, today’s tools for building websites are remarkable equalizers. Here are a few of our favorite tips and tools, written with entrepreneurs in mind. If you’re [...]
Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
Event Registration Products Like Eventbrite
April 30, 2009 – 4:03 pm
I am frequently asked about online tools for managing event registrations, so this time I dug up an analysis Mark wrote while evaluating which tool we would use here at Pure Visibility. It’s not an exhaustive list; rather, we focused on some of the most inexpensive event management services and the major points of differentiation [...]
Facebook and LinkedIn – What’s the Difference?
April 14, 2009 – 5:39 pm
I would like to point you to a favorite article on the topic of Facebook vs. LinkedIn, but after browsing a couple pages of Google results I’m here writing because there was a disappointing amount of industry-centric commentary. We’ve got A-List bloggers scorning one or both systems (hardly a “use case” or fair comparison for [...]
Strategic Planning via Verne Harnish’s Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
August 8, 2008 – 2:55 pm
Pure Visibility has undertaken the strategic planning process described in Verne Harnish’s book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What you must do to increase the value of your growing firm. All of us here have read a fair number of management books, attended seminars on process, and the like. Heck, some of us have even taught [...]
What are your favorite web applications?
July 1, 2008 – 8:39 am
I am frequently asked by early stage entrepreneurs what software we use, so here’s a quick list of the five online applications I can’t live without.
Salesforce.com. I started using salesforce back in the demo days when you could get a 3 user license that did everything for $50/month. Ah, those were the days… These days, [...]
Startup Weekend Coming to Ann Arbor
June 10, 2008 – 10:55 am
Michigan Stadium Aerial by dunrie, on Flickr
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are more than Michigan Football, although that is one thing that makes living here exciting. We’re more than the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. We have a great community of wonderful and innovative tech companies here such as:
Accuri Cytometers – a powerful, compact [...]
Where do you connect with the Michigan Technology community?
May 15, 2008 – 12:48 pm
In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked what’s going on in the Michigan technology community, and what were the groups to connect with?
I rattled off a few, and started Googling for a list, figuring this had to be documented already. But I didn’t spot anything immediately. So here’s my first [...]
Why do you use Twitter?
April 5, 2008 – 3:44 pm
I just got teased today by the astute Bud Gibson of Michigan Innovators that there aren’t any obvious links to find Linda and I on Twitter from the Pure Visibility website. So here they are:
Catherine Juon: http://www.twitter.com/cjuon
Linda Girard: http://www.twitter.com/lgirard
And of course Bud’s group on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/innovators
And since the next logical question is “Why do you [...]
What makes a business successful?
April 2, 2008 – 10:04 pm
I envision a sequel to Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone” entitled “Never Have Coffee Alone”. It would talk about how good it is to meet new people; and to be forced to explain what you do over and over so you get better at it. And to everyone that has humored me through this process, [...]
