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By Michael McFadden, 1 year and 7 months ago

The Society receives some local coverage

Last night 9news ran a story on TheSociety.com. We are running a promotion for Denver/Colorado residents to getaway to the mountains during the DNC. For details on the DNC promotion go to http://thesociety.com/dnc.

By Michael McFadden, 1 year and 10 months ago

Pomona High School class of 96 entreprenuer

IndieGoGoCheck it out. Eric Schell (PHS '96) has recently launched IndieGoGo.com, an «online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen». Eric and I played on the golf team back in the day. Since then Eric has been roaming the world and now has settled down (sort of) in Berekely and founded a company with two other friends. Most recently they were featured on TheAlarmClock, and Eric's partner, Slava gave a great interview.

By Michael McFadden, 2 years ago

A Sit-Down with Warren Buffett - Thoughts on Business

Noted from a Q & A at Emory's Goizueta Business School with (according to Forbes) the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

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By Michael McFadden, 2 years and 6 months ago

MBA Concierge. Should we have franchised?

A buddy from grad school, Rob Mittelman just sent me a note regarding a concierge company going to campuses. Well, for any of the MBA students at Oxford in 2005/06, you already know how successful this could be. I still think back and wonder if a group of us should have done our summer project on MBAconcierge and rolled out some franchises around the world. We could have been big! I guess we'll just see have to see how Precious Time of NY does in Syracuse.

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By Michael McFadden, 3 years and 1 month ago

Classic Startup Mistakes

After my time in Rye at The Putter I spent an afternoon in Oxford. By pure coincidence I walked into Said Business School and saw that Stewart Niblock, former EasyGroup entrepreneurer, was giving a talk entitled Classic Start-Up Mistakes.

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By , 3 years and 4 months ago

WeThink

Charlie Leadbeater has released an interesting book on mass creativity and innovation (well sort of released, it's actually now online for mass collaboration). We-Think: the power of mass creativity.

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By , 3 years and 4 months ago

Write and Read E-mails Better

Recently I read an article from entrepreneur.com regarding reading and writing emails better. I thought I'd pass on a few of the recommendations. Most are obvious but that doesn't mean they are easy to follow. Enjoy.

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