Gary Jinks, President at GLJ Group, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on the topic, “Start Ups – Are You Ready? Market Trends, Preparation and Getting Funding.” In this podcast, Gary discusses how entrepreneurs should utilize trends, and the key thing start-ups should know when presenting to investors. To watch the whole seminar, please visit our YouTube page: ASL YouTube
Sweta Khandelwal, Principal Attorney at The Law Offices of Sweta Khandelwal, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on the topic, “US Immigration Issues for Businesses, their Founders, Investors and Employees.” In this podcast, Sweta shares how to handle the changing immigration laws. To watch the whole seminar, please visit our YouTube page: ASL YouTube
By Jyothi Chillara, CPA, Principal
ASL Emerging Business Group
Crowdfunding is a method of raising financing for projects from the public via crowdfunding platforms and social media. Some of the most common crowdfunding platforms are Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe. According to Investopedia, Kickstarter has raised over $2 billion since 2009.
Forbes predicts that crowdfunding eventually will surpass venture capital for investing. According to Business News Daily, ““Crowdfunding is here to stay. By 2025, the global crowdfunding market potential could be between $90 billion and $96 billion,” said Bill Clerico, co-founder and CEO of WePay, citing data from the World Bank.” (more…)
Karthik Sundaram, Founder & CEO of Purplepatch Services, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on the topic, “B2B Marketing: Evolving from Spray-and-Pray to Align-and-Sign.” In this podcast, Karthik shares the importance of utilizing marketing to create demand and knowing who your buyer is.
Gary Jinks, President of GLJ Group, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on the topic, “The Top 10 New Things You Need to Know about Start-ups Today.” In this podcast, Gary shares 2 of his top 10 list, including that the bar has been raised for start-ups, and understanding how to leverage and make use of the ecosystem.
Elizabeth Borelli, Founder of The Borelli Group, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on the topic, “Communication on Purpose: Aligning Meaning With Message to Maximize Impact.” In this podcast, Elizabeth shares how our communication intentions don’t always get the results we’re looking for, and how we can overcome these obstacles.
Dana Brody-Brown & Kathryn G. Spelman, Attorneys from Hoge Fenton, spoke at the ASL Emerging Business Group’s best practices seminar on, “Intellectual Property (IP) Essentials for Emerging Businesses.” In this podcast, Dana and Kathryn shared how important it is to plan ahead and address IP early. Consider addressing IP early, “even if you cannot execute on the plan immediately so that you can identify any risk areas and identify priorities for obtaining protection.”
Maitjian Welke of CMIT Solutions, Indu Jayakumar of LocalBizNetwork, and Margaret Akdeniz of Akdeniz Law Group sat down with Pam Hedblad, ASL Principal, on The Founder’s Pit Crew to share the key nuggets of advice for founders from their presentation for the ASL Emerging Business Group’s Best Practices Seminar on, “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Social Media in Emerging Businesses”. Take two minutes for a pit stop right now.
