Rick Smith

  I just had the most interesting conversation with a friend – a very powerful business person, wise from experience, likely one of the top 100 influential female professionals in the world. Her comment to me? “Hurry up. The window is closing…” She was referring to the state of the economy, ...

This past year, I met a remarkable person. Her name is Jessica Mah, and she is quickly becoming one of the top bloggers on the internet. She is the founder of three companies, a professional speaker and a brilliant computer scientist. She is also an expert on ...

Is it possible to start a business with little or no money? Absolutely. In fact, back in 2004 that’s exactly what I did. I launched World 50, investing only $400.00, and that was to buy stationary to print invoices. This was good news for me, because I had no money. Zilch, ...

The days of “buying” people’s time, effort and attention are over. We are all volunteers. We actively choose who we will work for, and how hard we will work for them. We choose who our clients and partners will be. We choose whom to let into our inner ...

The economy is in the toilet. Consumer sentiment has been very negative for quite some time. But there are some early signs of hope, a chance that we may be approaching the beginning of the end. This was the mood when I first was thinking about starting a new business in ...

And so begins my favorite week of the year. The TED conference, this year being held in Long Beach, California. TED is an assembly of big thinkers. It was started 25 years ago just as the world's of Technology, Entertainment and Media were converging. The original idea was to bring ...