May 2011
Websites For Young People to Learn About Finance
May 24, 2011 One of my chief interests is in education, both for myself and my children. In fact, as a person who makes his living in writing and publishing, I'm vitally interested in the subject of education for all young people. If we don't do a better job of educating our kids, we are—pardon my french—screwed as a country. One neglected area of education is financial education, particularly for young people. If this subject interests you too, check out this article in a recent Investor's Business Daily about websites where kids can go to learn finance. Your children—and heck, you too—may benefit.
Telling Your Story Can Help You Achieve Your Business Goals
May 4, 2011 Lately through my communications company, Southampton Media, we have been working with several firms on how to better tell their stories. We have created Power Points for them to present to venture capital investors, who are interested in potentially planting seed money into their companies to make them grow. Such investors need to know the financials of any project—the numbers must work out, no doubt—but like everyone else in the world, even the most hard-nosed businessmen/investors like to hear a good story, told well. Curiously though, I've found that many new as well as established companies and organizations have no idea how to tell their stories to potential investors, the public at large, or even their own customers. And yet effective storytelling can help you achieve your business goals, as this recent piece in Investor Business Daily shows.