This post originally appeared on my New Domains blog for Forbes.com
An Initial Public Offering (IPO) can mean many different things for the future of a business. The (rumored-to-be-imminent) IPO for Facebook - the company that harnessed the collective conscious - is one that will be watched more closely than any other. And that interest will come not only by those with the means to participate in the IPO, but also the...
January 23, 2012
I would like to share a recent experience that has reconfirmed my belief that The Universe works in mysterious ways. Ways which often baffle and frustrate us, but ultimately create situations which force us to take a closer look at why things happen and what we are supposed to learn from a specific event.
Several months ago...
Last week the world was surprised by popular protests in Russia. Now the question on everyone’s lips is – is this the Russian Spring?
There are many reasons why it is not, including a completely different political system, different grievances by the population and the lack of any foreign power either willing or able to intervene. But this article is not going to delve into the...
Hello! My name is Vienne Cheung, and I am the founder of VienneMilano, a luxury hosiery brand. VienneMilano is my baby, and as a proud mother, I am not shy to say that I launched a luxury fashion brand within 9-10 months.
So what exactly does that mean? To summarize my accomplishments, with zero budget for marketing, I:
Below is a recap of a recent Twitter Chat with TheNextGreatGeneration.com (@NextGreatGen).
Thanks, TNGG for...
Thus I found myself dialling Mr Cat's phone number. As a gentle refresher this person is very good friends with my CEO and was working for a well known, publicly listed, financial services company. The original strategy had been for him to introduce me to his 'contact list' in the middle...
By this stage I was sitting in the centre of Dubai wondering how on earth I was going to make this role work. I was living with some very generous hosts and their felines, who were good friends of the CEO (the humans not the cats). What had failed to be...
By now I was working for the new fund in the marketing area having begun the role 'helping' with the PHD in managerial behavioural analysis focusing on brain function (obviously). I was a little confused on expectations but the alternative asset fund was based in Mayfair, the office swish and the...
How many women did you see on your ballot during the last election? I bet there weren’t very many. That’s why a book like Pearls, Politics & Power, which Elizabeth Amorose and I are reading as part of the New York Women Social Entrepreneur’s book club, is still so relevant.
Author Madeleine Kunin, who served as Governor of Vermont and then as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, offers a quick primer on...
I participated in three panel sessions about social media as part of an AMEX/SCORE event geared to small business owners in Denver, CO. After spending the day talking to entrepreneurs about how to start and grow their business using social media, it became clear that many of the attendees are eager to use these new tools but are unsure of where to start.
There were some very specific concerns that are worth...
