Episode 117: Business Match Making and The Small Business

Episode 117 originally broadcast on September 01, 2007

The School of Business for September 1, 2007

This week our unusual business education starts with a quote from Norman Vincent Peale about quitting. Then we receive a history lesson of the first tank prototype test driven in 1915, Toyota launching Lexus in 1989, and EBay being founded in 1995 because of a Pez collection. Find out if your business logo is t-shirtable and the AP gets fooled by a fake.

Lisa Baker & Ken Yancey

Lisa Baker, director of small and medium business for HP, and Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE, "Counselors to American Business." This interview was conducted in Chicago during the Business Match Making event in August 2007. The conference sponsors, Baker and Yancey, describe how this trade show event turns the usual "small-business-selling-to-big-business" formula upside down - with major corporations inviting small companies in to present their products and services.

Flashback - Small Business Advice

>Flashback to start-up and small business advice. Dennis Murphree of Murphree Venture Partners describes what's important to VC's; Laura Capper of Cap Resources shares key characteristics of successful leaders of startups; and John Moore of Brand Autopsy offers branding advice gleaned from working with Starbuck's Coffee and Whole Foods.