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Book Launch: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur By Mike Michalowicz

September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

My friend and fellow entrepreneur and EO member Mike Michalowicz is launching his book today. It’s called The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Good luck to you Mike! Here is a guest blog post from him about how to be a bootstrapping Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Are... [Read the full story]

Tom Friedman: Why We Need a Green Revolution, And How It Can Renew America

September 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

What is next after the Information Technology (IT) revolution of the last 30 years? Well, according to Thomas Friedman, it’s the Energy Technology (ET) revolution. Last Monday I had the chance to hear Mr. Friedman give an impassioned presentation... [Read the full story]

Project Polaroid: Giving A Child Their First Picture

September 18, 2008 · 1 Comment

How do you get the attention of a large global company (Polaroid) and convince them to reverse a key strategic decision? Hopefully, like this… The Birth of Project Polaroid Nine months ago, in early January, I was hanging out in Charlotte with a... [Read the full story]

Book

Two New Podcast Interviews on Entrepreneurship from Stever Robbins and Jim Blasingame

May 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Podcast Description: Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old co-founder of iContact.com, a 95 person email marketing company in Durham, NC. Ryan spoke in this podcast with Stever Robbins about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. Download/Listen... [Read the full story]

Two More Interviews on Entrepreneurship

March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Here are two more recent podcast/radio interviews on entrepreneurship done by Dr. Alvin Jones and Start-Up Spark. Enjoy! Dr. Alvin Jones Radio Interview with Ryan Allis - (9min 17sec, WMA file) - A March 26, 2008 radio interview on WCBQ-AM 1340 and... [Read the full story]

Now #2 on Amazon!

February 6, 2008 · 9 Comments

Zero to One Million reached #2 on Amazon around 5am this morning and is still there as of 1:30pm! We’re still pushing to get to #1. I’m up against Oprah-backed Eckhart Tolle. That guy is amazing! My only hope may be to get on Oprah! Check... [Read the full story]

Entrepreneurship

Endeavor - Promoting Entrepreneurship in Middle-Income Nations

September 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A Non-Profit Profile By Humanity Campaign Writer Ebs Sutton– Recently, a non-profit organization by the name of Endeavor was profiled in the July issue of The Economist, in an article which gave rave reviews of the group’s commitment to providing... [Read the full story]

How to Be a Public Company CEO

August 6, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’m out here at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado this week. The 600 attendees here are a mix of public institutional investors, hedge fund managers, investment bankers, public company analysts, venture capitalists,... [Read the full story]

The Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

July 28, 2008 · 3 Comments

Our generation–those born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s–has a great opportunity ahead of ourselves. We have the ability for the first time in human history to eliminate extreme poverty within our lifetimes and ensure shared access to prosperity... [Read the full story]

iContact

Great Office Space in Durham

June 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

If you’re looking for cheap short to mid term office space (with furniture included) a company in our building is currently making two suites available on the first floor. It’s class A office space at a very reasonable price that includes... [Read the full story]

Ernst & Young Carolinas’ 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year

June 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

iContact Wins CEDs Growth Company of the Year

June 6, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last night iContact was honored by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development as the 2008 Technology Growth Company of the Year at Bay 7 at American Tobacco Campus. Aaron and I accepted the award on behalf of the iContact team. You can watch a video... [Read the full story]

Journal

A Place of Ideas: Renaissance Weekend Day One

August 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’m in Aspen, Colorado for an inspiring gathering over Labor Day Weekend. It’s Friday night at 10pm and the dance floor is calling–but I am driven to write first and dance later. The gathering is called Renaissance Weekend, started... [Read the full story]

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Half Moon Bay, CA

July 21, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today through Wednesday I am the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, about 45 minutes south of San Francisco. After a Segway tour along the Pacific this afternoon, the sessions began at 4pm. We’ve heard from Michael... [Read the full story]

Celebrating 5 Years at iContact

July 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The team at iContact celebrated the company’s 5th anniversary and reaching over 100 team members on Friday afternoon at our offices in Durham. We had BBQ from Thrills from the Grill underneath two large tents in our parking lot with bluegrass band... [Read the full story]

Social Entrepreneurship

Endeavor - Promoting Entrepreneurship in Middle-Income Nations

September 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A Place of Ideas: Renaissance Weekend Day One

August 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Seeking Part-Time Writer for The Humanity Campaign

August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The Humanity Campaign is a start-up non-profit organization based in Durham, North Carolina. Its mission is to reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries by working to increase access to education, healthcare, nutrition, technology, and entrepreneurial... [Read the full story]

Tech

$1M Prize for Best Developing Country Technology Innovation

July 22, 2008 · 2 Comments

Legatum Group, founded by Chris Chandler and based in Dubai, has announced today at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Half Moon Bay, California a $1 million prize for the best technology innovation from a for-profit company in the developing world. I will update... [Read the full story]

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Half Moon Bay, CA

July 21, 2008 · 1 Comment

This Page May Contain Content That is Not Consisent With the Moral Cultural, or Social Values of the UAE

July 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I was in Dubai for a night two weeks ago on my way to Uganda and tried from my Holiday Inn Express in Dubai Internet City home of the Middle East campuses of Sun Microsystems, Cisco, and EMC and to access a blog called Secret Dubai Diary. The site came... [Read the full story]

Thoughts

Financial Markets: 3 Predictions

I may be wrong, BUT… 1. This is the End of the Financial Crisis– This is the end, not the beginning, not the middle. AIG will likely get a $85B-$90B bridge loan from the Fed backed by company assets in exchange for a majority stake in the company. The Dow will continue its rise in the morning with the news of AIGs stabilization. Based on March market capitalization, AIG It is five times... [Read more]

Essays

Press

Ernst & Young Carolinas’ 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year

Aaron and I won the Ernst & Young Carolinas’ 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Emerging Category tonight at the ceremony in Charlotte. We were up against Virtual Heroes and Canvas on Demand, both from RTP. The winners will be going to Palm Springs, California in November for the Ernst & Young 2008 National Entrepreneur of the Year Awards to compete against the other regional... [Read more]