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Shanlon Wu, former federal prosecutor and partner; Thomas Clare, partner at Clare Locke; and Richard Levick, chairman and CEO of Levick; discuss the ways that First Amendment issues bleed into the corporate world.
September 17, 2018 -
Mary Abbajay, expert on leadership management and career development and author of Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss, discusses how writing a book can give entrepreneurs and leaders access to a wide range of opportunities they couldn't otherwise achieve.
August 06, 2018 -
Gigi Schumm welcomes DNS registrar and COO of Farsight Security, Alexa Raad, on this week’s episode of Women of Washington.
June 13, 2018 -
Clare Flannery of MDB Communications explains how businesses in the DC region have banded together to improve metro. She says the Metro Now Coalition is a sign of how DC, Maryland and Virginia can work together as a region to reach a common goal.
March 07, 2018 -
A full-length discussion on company boards, why women are still under-represented, and specific tips on how to boost the female presence to better reflect the customers companies serve. Denise Keane, Andi Cullins and Andrew Sherman.
February 27, 2018 -
Mergers and acquisitions, the process of businesses being sold and bought is basically the life blood of any entrepreneurial region, and our region is a hotbed for emerging acquisitions activity in the United States.
February 16, 2018 -
Stephen Fuller's latest report, Amazon's HQ2 bids in the region and what to expect in the coming weeks from Andy Medici, money reporter for Washington Business Journal.
January 31, 2018 -
Today's entrepreneur needs to be sensitive to the fact that their passion, their clear sense of vision, the way that they interact with their most important assets, their people, are critical building blocks in entrepreneurship and in business success.
January 29, 2018 -
The opportunity to do business overseas can create thousands of jobs for an economy and many for business. In the current environment, sometimes people scratch their head and wonder: Is this still a good time to do international business? Joshua Walker is the head of Global Strategic Initiatives with The Eurasia Group. Hes a diplomatic expert in international trade and business.
January 17, 2018 -
Mark Walsh, former head of the Office of Innovation and Investment at the Small Business Administration, shares his predictions on 2018. Walsh is a local angel investor and one of the pioneers of the modern internet.
January 01, 2018 -
One of the biggest challenges for leaders is accomplishing change, particularly at moments of crisis and risk. Chris Fussell, managing officer of the McChrystal Group and the author of One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams says his biggest military lesson is that team decisionmaking must be decentralized “down to those frontline elements, that are closest to these fast-changing problems.”
October 04, 2017 -
First things first. Update your profile on professional social media sites, says Frances Reimers, a personal brand consultant and founder of brand consulting business Firestarter LLC.
September 18, 2017 -
In order to succeed in the competitive entrepreneurial space of the D.C. area, businesses have to corner a market that’s not covered. In founding The Pretzel Bakery, local entrepreneur Sean Haney instantly found his market. “As any good Philly boy knows, you grow up eating pretzels, with every event, every trip… when I moved to D.C. in ‘98, I just kept thinking to myself, man, D.C. needs a good pretzel spot,” Haney said.
August 18, 2017 -
Selling a small business can be an extremely difficult process for entrepreneurs. The financial hoops and legal terms can be foreign at first and require time for company leaders to understand a process that can get drawn out.
June 30, 2017 -
A bellwether for the region’s tech community is a company that helps retailers and manufacturers manage and resell excess merchandise. As a “circular economy company, heavy sustainability focus,” Optoro has a finger on the pulse of the area’s tech industry, according to Josh Szmajda, Optoro’s Chief Technology Officer.
June 16, 2017