I didn't attend the summit, so I appreciated being able to read their live-blogging (by two people!) of the content. The disconnected nature of live-blogging being what it is, I only covered two sessions before tiring of the exercise, but there was a lot of valuable insights there, which I tried to retail back to the universe through my own re-tweets.
So here is what I Tweeted – in chronological order, compete with atrocious spelling and grammar to fit Twitter’s ruthless 140-chracter limit. As I point out midway through, the original blogging was done by Globe editors Terry Brodie (a colleague of mine from olden days) and Sol Chrom. You can read their original work at http://bit.ly/vvxcod
Enjoy.
"My dream for Canada is that the 21st Century becomes the century of the entrepreneur:" SME minister Maxime Bernier at Globe SB Summit Nov. 8
Matthew von Teichman (Life Choices Natural Foods) spoke at Globe Summit on being underfunded: You miss enormous opportunities because you're focused on the pennies
I'm wading thru Globe's ragged live-blogging of its own small biz conference last week to see what value I can pull out for Twitter
more from von Teichman: "Nice to have another voice talking about strategy, but you make the decisions.Think through everything on your own"von Teichman: Even if you hire great people, stay involved. Stay in close touch with most important customers, with numbers and with people
Matthew von Teichman was an attendee at PROFIT Magazine's first GrowthCamp. Only guy to make PROFIT's Hot 50 list with 2 different businesses
You can read the Globe's live-blog of its Small Business Summit at http://bit.ly/vvxcod Like most such efforts, though, it's tedious reading
von Teichman: Clear your mind; focus on strategy.Don't get bogged down in detail. "I think of every hire as someone who will free up my time"
Tara "MissRogue" Hunt, CEO of Buyosphere, at Globe SB summit: said she's committing four of the five mistakes Matthew just cited
Tara Hunt says she's more of an entrepreneur based on being not really hirable, rather than being entrepreneurial
Tara Hunt was more an intrapreneur, but nobody would give free rein to take ideas to next level; by blogging, she got on Silicon Valley radar
Buyosphere crowdsources shopping. Hunt says she is working herself to the bone in an underfunded company, which Matthew vT warned not to do
Thanks to Terry Brodie and Sol Chrom of Globe & Mail for liveblogging last week's SB summit. Not an easy thing to do.
Hunt says core trait of entrepreneurs is being "completely delusional." You need to look at the world and see something different (mkt gaps)
Hunt on delusional genius: "You probably thought Twitter was a crazy idea at first, didn't you...?"
Hunt: Next entrepreneur trait: audacity. Successful entrepreneurs don't know where they are going, they just feel their way there.
Hunt: everyone and everything will stand in your way of going forward. You need confidence to face the harsh stats of business mortality.
Next trait: Adaptability. No matter how awesome your idea is, the only thing that counts at end of day is that you find a product/market fit
Globe SB Summit Q&A: von Teichman says biz plan important in early stages, but 3 years later you won't recognize it. It's a moving entity
Hunt says Canada's SRED tax credits helped a lot. "All my American friends are really jealous"
At Globe SB Summit, marketer Tony Chapman: With social media, consumers are saying they don't want to be shouted at any more.
According to Chapman, social media has supplanted porn as the #1 activity on the web!Chapman: Sell solutions, not a product or service. You can't provide solutions until you've listened to and understood people's needs
Chapman at Globe SB summit: "This is the time we can seize power. Small business's ability to attempt, create, and innovate."
Tony Chapman on Framing: Say, "We're the ones that..." If you can fill in the blank with something that matters, you're engaging people.
That's it for me. Thanks to the Globe for providing its liveblog summit feed at http://bit.ly/vvxcod
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