"We bet the Jockey, Not the Horse." A master class with the Pitch Coach, David S. Rose
David S. Rose
"If you don't understand what's happening in this new world and figure out ways to leverage all of these wonderful new things that are happening, there's going to be real problems ahead... This is a distributed world, my bet is on the little person in the garage." David S. Rose.
David Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate acquisitions. Mr. Rose is Chairman of the Board of the New York Angels, the leading angel investment consortium in the New York region. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies. On behalf of his own technology firms he has personally raised tens of millions of dollars in venture, strategic and institutional capital.
With over two decades of hands-on experience in founding, managing and funding diverse companies, Mr. Rose is actively involved in mentoring and advising other entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Dubbed by BusinessWeek "The Pitch Coach" for his ability to help entrepreneurs perfect their fundraising skills, he was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent guest speaker at graduate business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU.
David's public coaching seminars in presentation skills, early stage investing and entrepreneurship are conducted under the auspices of the Liminal Group, where he is a member of the faculty and on the board of advisors. Liminal Group is a multi-platform leadership consultancy that provides consultants to corporations, coaches to prominent individuals, and advisors to governments.
The million-dollar question is this: do you have at least $1 million in liquid assets to support yourself for the 20-plus years that usually follow retirement? And if not, how can you get started today to get there? Whether you are thirty-five, forty-five, or even fifty-five, widely-respected financial analyst Michael K. Farr outlines the steps necessary to reach this ambitious but achievable goal
in his new book, A Million Is Not Enough: How to Retire with the Money You'll Need
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Michael Farr is president and majority owner of Farr, Miller & Washington, a Washington, D.C.-based Investment firm that manages more than $400 million dollars in assets. He regularly appears on Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE.
Attention: Lehman, Merrill Lynch, AIG, Citi, HP Employees - (And Everyone Else with a job) Listen Here.
"This is our worst layoff forecast in the past five years for employees, as corporations appear ready to slash staff and layoff workers." Kirk Nemer
Kirk Nemer, J.D., SPHR
Well, they were right. Career Protections Annual 2008 Layoffs Forecast painted an ugly picture of cuts in jobs for 2008. Over 1,375 corporate executives nationwide completed the confidential annual survey regarding workforce reduction plans conducted by the employment law and human resources experts of CareerProtection.com (Survey conducted January 2-25, 2008).
If you have found yourself one of the statistics sighted in this report, or fear the axe is about to fall at your company, do yourself a favor and listen to what Kirt Nemer had to say in this Big Picture interview with Peter Clayton.