One of the things we’re spending alot of our time on nowadays is publicity. And since we’re doing all this on a budget and doing it on our own, it’s been a very educational experience. For our publicity effort, the central message we’ve been trying to get out is the February Pancake [...]
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Food Fights - a vital part of every birthday!
Happy birthday Two-Bit Operation! Today marks the one-year anniversary of our last day at our previous jobs. It seems like just last week that, wide-eyed and full of boundless optimism, we started the company and this blog. What difference a year makes! Our eyes aren’t as wide anymore (fatigue-induced :)), but [...]
Entrepreneur tips from Aon Founder Pat Ryan
If you’ve got about 20 minutes to spare, there’s a good video of Aon’s founder talking about entrepreneurship. He founded the company and lead it as its CEO for over 40 years. It’s not often that you see a founder stay at the helm through such tremendous growth. (More on Aon on Wikipedia)
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Beer is a lubricant for networking, not speaking
According to Wikipedia, “Beer is considered to be a social lubricant in many societies.” While we’ve definitely found this to be true, the wonderful effects aren’t necessarily positive on public speaking.
On November, Keith Schacht’s monthly Chicago Beta networking event took place at Goose Island Brewery. The event is geared towards anyone involved in [...]
Networking’s always better with a (tech) cocktail
As mentioned in the previous post, the focus of this working session in Chicago has been on networking and setting up a marketing plan. One of the biggest highlights of the trip so far has been attending Tech Cocktail 2, a quarterly networking event for techies and entrepreneurs in the Midwest. We’d been [...]
