by Lewis Schiff | May 16, 2018 | Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Sales Amplification
The path to a successful startup is almost never straight. Sometimes the best laid business plans for growth require rethinking in order to continue growing, as one well-known and experienced entrepreneur can attest. Norm Brodsky, business mentor and longtime...
by Lewis Schiff | Apr 25, 2018 | Company Culture, Entrepreneurship, Fellowship Program, Podcast, Productivity
Show Notes: Interview with David Long David Long is no stranger to taking strategic risks. His company, MyEmployees, is currently worth $10.5 million, and ranks among the top 1% of employee recognition companies in the US. It has a gross margin of 87.5%, exhibiting...
by Lewis Schiff | Aug 14, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
It was during a team-building exercise many years ago that I first discovered a talent that I had no idea I possessed. The exercise itself was pretty run-of-the-mill – name one special skill or talent for each person in the room. I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear...
by Lewis Schiff | Jul 31, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
The popular myth is that Bill Gates is a visionary. He foresaw his MS-DOS operating system as a goldmine, and he tricked IBM, the biggest computer company on earth, into letting him retain the copyright. Microsoft software still dominates the desktop more than 30...
by Lewis Schiff | May 29, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Podcast
Here at BEN, we are all about mentorship and being open to learning from others. These learning strategies are not just for new entrepreneurs – those who are already successful will also benefit from taking the time to hear about how other people take control of and...