Joel Welsh

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Joel Welsh, Chief Community Officer, is also the CEO of a new startup company ... Showcase U. Joel shares behind the scenes key decisions being made in the "Birth of a Startup" and knocks it out of the park to provide his own entrepreneurial wisdom.
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Tiger Woods has 2 Coaches. You?

I've been sick with bronchitis the past 10 days. It kept me at home away from infecting my StartupNation teammates all last week. I'd work for a while and then lie on the couch for...
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The Tipping Point For Your Small Business

Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point talks about the Broken Windows Theory. The theory says if a neighborhood looks run down with broken windows & graffiti, people will believe nobody cares & will also not...
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Share NCAA March Madness With Your Network

The NCAA Basketball Tournament – “March Madness” – is one of those annual events that is ripe for strengthening your business network. The tourney kicks off this week with daytime games all across the country...
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Business Owners Need to Know When and How

I blogged earlier in the month about a contest that we ran at StartupNation.com and the overwhelmingly “I LOVE THIS CONTEST” reactions we received. I was surprised and surmised that the combination of competition and...
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Business Startup Good Ideas & Bad Ones

The StartupNation.com community is rockin' powerful. How do I know? I often am contacted by a community member who finds that their forum comments show up in a Google search for their company name or...
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The Small Business Family

I'm reminded today that all of life is about relationships with other humans. StartupNation headquarters is not the bustling place that it normally is today. It's because many of our team members are not here...
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Entrepreneurs vs Business Owners

Is there a difference between an entrepreneur and a business owner? Can you be one and not the other? Or be the other and not the one? Or be neither and still be self employed?...
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Tennis and Small Business

I'm a tennis player. Well, let me rephrase … I play tennis. I played last night as a matter of fact. Two hours of singles against guys younger than me. Not bad for a dude...
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Entrepreneurs Love Pizza!

The new StartupNation “Capture the Flag” Contest is giving out daily prizes and the first prize was $100 of pizza from the winner's favorite pizza joint. This could be our most popular promotion ever!! A...
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Love Is the Killer App

Step aside, email. Internet? You ain't got game. iPhone sounds sweet, but doesn't even come close to the real killer app – that business application that holds the true power to change the world. Starting...
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It Still Smells at StartupNation HQ

Entrepreneurs need those unique and unexpected diversions in order to shake them out of their daily intensity and provide a proper perspective and the proverbial “looking at things from a different angle”. The good news...
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iPhone – Apple vs Cisco

So it's big news these days about Apple coming out with a product and calling it something that Cisco already is calling one of its products. This is very likely much ado about nothing as...