As business starters, Dave and I were under no illusion that anybody owed us anything (investment or business) or that we were important in any way.

Raising capital is something that almost every entrepreneur must do to, in some cases, simply to survive, and, in other cases, to grow.

We met a successful and well-known business person whose success had fed an oversized ego. Shortly after, he was found guilty of insider trading and sent to jail. What a waste.

Dave and I are both aware that we’ve been very lucky to have overachieved in our choice of a business and a life partner.

We’re sincere in our invitations to others to a discussion, dinner or party. We mean and do what we say and wish others would, too.

Annually, Intel went to great effort to bring together the CEOs of its investee companies to both deliver information about its strategy and allow CEOs to mix and mingle in an atmosphere that was conducive to forging business rela

Performance reviews and compensation discussions require diplomacy and sensitivity. Staff have long memories about what is said and done.

Many years of running businesses has made me realize that never giving up and doggedly working on a problem often leads to success.

It was a marvelous chance encounter with 2 young men who had enthusiastically used SMART Board interactive whiteboards in school.

Our effort to enlist investors for SMART was for naught. No one would invest. With hindsight, that gave us the control we needed to grow the company.