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Who We Are ASAE represents more than 21,000 association executives and industry partners representing 10,000 organizations. Our members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies and voluntary organizations across the United States and in nearly 50 countries around the world. With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession, and provides resources, education, ideas and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community. We believe associations have the power to transform society for the better. Our passion is to help association professionals achieve previously unimaginable levels of performance. Meet the ASAE Board Read the ASAE Bylaws Read the ASAE Foundation Bylaws Our Cause ASAE helps associations and association professionals transform society through the power of collaboration.
The Nation’s Top Young Entrepreneurs «
The Nation’s Top Young Entrepreneurs November 30, 2010 at 7:04 pm kathykormanfrey What great young entrepreneurs do you know? This series is a round-up of some of the nation’s top young entrepreneurs. Shayna Turk This year, the NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” Award and Scholarship Winner was Shayna Turk. Austin Hochstatter Austin Hochstatter of Austin, Texas: Mr. David Conway David Conway of Wilton, Connecticut: Mr. Ian Purkayastha Ian Purkayastha of Fayetteville, Arkansas: Mr. Jake Detwiler Jake Detwiler of Marysville, Ohio: Mr. Related links: NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation Press Release.Inc Magazine 3o Entrepreneurs under 30. Who did we miss? More information The NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization promoting the importance of small business and free enterprise to the nation’s youth. Entrepreneur In The Classroom. Follow NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation on Twitter Follow NFIB on Twitter Like this: Like Loading...
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How a Small Business Becomes a Big Business | My Venture Pad
The New York Times Your The Boss Blog had a post How a Small Business Becomes a Big Business There are many reasons why businesses grow and fail. My insights from the blog are: Scalability & ReplicabilityGrowing through a series successful incremental stepsTaking a mulitgenerational point of view that allows a 40 plus year business plan There is more to growing a business than "the numbers and customer service" and I wish to reframe things a bit. For many entrepreneurs, 10% annual compounded growth would be a big yawn. Customer Service in today's environment is neutral and many businesses look at customer service as fixing problems. A small business becomes a big business through avoiding small thinking and developing Scalability and Replicability into their business. I believe a large component of their success… they are a family business. Family Businesses tend to look very long term because a family is long term, transitioning from one generation to the next. All the best! Connect:
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
Hello, We launched Writeboard back in October of 2005 as a stand-alone service. A few years later we integrated Writeboards into Basecamp Classic and Backpack. Today, the vast majority of Writeboards are created inside those two products. As part of refocusing on Basecamp, we’ve decided to retire Writeboard.com. But don’t worry — any Writeboards you already created here at Writeboard.com will continue to work. Thanks to everyone who used Writeboard.com over the years. Onwards, Jason Fried, Founder & CEO, Basecamp
To do list, simple, easy, fast, sharable: Ta-da List
Hello, We launched Ta-da List back in January of 2005 so everyone could have a fast and free to-do list app in their web browser. There wasn’t much out there that was good in 2005. My, how things have changed. Because we haven’t given Ta-da List much attention in the last few years, and as part of refocusing our efforts on Basecamp — we’ve decided to retire Ta-da List. But don’t worry — any to-do lists you already created here at TadaList.com will continue to work. Thanks to everyone who used Ta-da List over the years. Onwards, Jason Fried, Founder & CEO, Basecamp
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Some Insights into Marc Andreessen’s New Venture Capital Firm, Andreessen Horowitz « The Mark Bao Journal
Gist: Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and Horowitz start forward-thinking venture capital firm with a fund of $300 million, investing $50k to $50 million. They prefer technical founders, and like technical CEOs. They want to understand the technology and the product well, instead of viewing from a distance, and aren’t interested in areas they don’t have experience in (unlike many VC firms.) Marc Andresseen, known for founding Netscape Communications (now part of AOL Time Warner (TWX)) and Ben Horowitz have started Andresseen Horowitz, a $300 million technology venture fund. First, Andreessen Horowitz is a very focused venture capital firm. “We are almost certainly not an appropriate investor for any of the following domains: “clean”, “green”, energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket ships, space elevators. They demonstrate this as well by preferring technical founders.
