Katz & Green's Entrepreneurial Small Business

2011 in review

jeromekatz — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:48:59 +0000

Thanks for using our ESB blog!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

How to get a logo done on the cheap

jeromekatz — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:00:28 +0000

A student asked me how he could get a logo done for his business on a shoestring budget.

A few thoughts:

Do it Yourself: see this google search
Post a job to elance.com offer what you want (say $25, but you can see what you get for $5 or $10) and ask for submissions, and you pick the best.
Check your dorm or classes or groups and see if there is an artist or designer who’ll do it for you cheap or free.
Ask a professor in your school’s Fine Arts department if there is a student who might be interested.

Billiken Angels Workshop: Pitching To and Planning for Angels

jeromekatz — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:20:32 +0000

Ever wonder what DO angels want? Learn that and more at a free workshop being offered by the Billiken Angel Network, one of St. Louis’ two angel networks. The workshop is open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.

The Billiken Angel Network at Saint Louis University will host a workshop for entrepreneurs seeking angel investment funding from 5:00-6:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, in room 173 at the University’s John Cook School of Business, 3674 Lindell Blvd. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited and reservations are required.

The workshop is designed for start-up entrepreneurs with a completed or in-process business plan and focuses on how to prepare the business plan and the “pitch” for presentation to angel investment groups and bankers. BAN staff members Jerome Katz and Andrew Fehlman will discuss:

* What angels look for in business plans.
* How to think about valuation and deals.
* The seven slides of the perfect business plan pitch.

The Billiken Angels Network is a St. Louis-based angel network and is dedicated to funding deals for people and firms with SLU DNA. You can learn more about the BAN at www.billikenangels.com.

To register for the workshop, contact Jeanne Rhodes at SLU’s Center for Entrepreneurship at (314) 977-3850 or by email at rhodesja@slu.edu.

jeromekatz — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:51:15 +0000

Just posted Super 7: The 7 Best Free Sources for Business Plan Help http://wp.me/pL0HI-t

jeromekatz — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:52:37 +0000

Tornadoes in stl today. But don’t worry were safe.

jeromekatz — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:30:45 +0000

SLU’s Entrepreneurship MBA rated Top-5 by Fortune, http://ping.fm/6eR4B

jeromekatz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:00:56 +0000

Added blog “A Thousand Points of Small Business Light? Well, Lets Start With Three” at http://wp.me/pL0HI-d

Bleeding Edge: Entrepreneurship & Education for the 21st Century

jeromekatz — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:41:47 +0000

I know that blogs can be addictive for authors and readers, but this one will be a very occasional one. Its focus is on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship in general, and what makes a difference in either (or neither, or both).

ESB2e Posts

jeromekatz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:54:37 +0000

Welcome to the ESB2e Video Blog

jeromekatz — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:14:52 +0000

Welcome! We (Jerome – Jerry – Katz and Richard Green) have set this blog up to show you some great commercials which highlight points we try to make in the different chapters of our textbook Entrepreneurial Small Business, published by McGraw Hill.

Some of the commercials tell you how to do something. Others are pointed examples of how not to do something, but they are all memorable, or at least fun, and they are likely to get some good conversations going in your class, dorm room or apartment.

If you are seriously into YouTube, you might know of some other great videos we ought to include, and if you do, please let us know. Email Jerry at katzja@slu.edu. Also, we would love to seed the blog with student-made videos. If you or your friends have made a video that you think would fit with something you’ve read in ESB, let us know. Business has been revolutionized by student-made videos, we’re ready to see some revolution in ESB.

If you’re curious about what our own programs look like, check out
this link from MSNBC’s Your Business.