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A great Podcast from our affiliate partner and friend Mike Dermer: Podcast #1102: Interview with Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the US: Israel’s Struggle: The Entrepreneur Spirit Embodies a Nation. In this episode, Michael Dermer from The Lonely Entrepreneur interviews his cousin Ambassador Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Ron explains how the struggle of Israel as a nation and the spirit of the Israeli population has led to a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Ron shares […]

Startup Port Looks to Benefit from Sherpa’s Client Relationships on the East Coast Chicago, IL: June 25, 2017 Startup Port looks to benefit from its relationship with Sherpa Business Advisors, LLC (“Sherpa”) and the firm’s Founding Partner. A series of speaking and client engagements will take Archel G. Desir back to Boston, Philadelphia and New York where the entrepreneur has formerly studied and worked. Though the majority of his professional career has been with larger institutions within the hedge fund […]

How we all became experts on everything. (And master of none!)   (Condensed from an article by Rex Huppke of the Chicago Tribune) This is the trap of the information age. We have so much knowledge at our fingertips that we think a few finger taps on the mouse turn us into resident experts on anything.   It seems there was a time when we humans were better at staying in our lanes. If you had a legal problem, you […]

Here are some interesting facts and figures about the US grocery shopping habits and what Amazon has to contend with to be successful:   How long does the average shopper spend in the grocery store?  According to the Time Use Institute, the average shopping trip takes 41 minutes. If you multiply that by the 1.5-trip per week average, that’s over 53 hours per year you’re spending in the grocery store.   When do shopping trips take the longest?  If you want […]

Online grocery shopping trends in the United States from 2012 to 2021 and  statistics and facts on consumers’ online grocery shopping trends in the U.S.   This statistic highlights online grocery shopping sales in the United States in 2012 and provides an estimate until 2021. The U.S. online grocery market is estimated to generate sales worth of about 14.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, with sales forecast to reach 29.7 billion U.S. dollars by 2021. Among the leading online food and […]

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“Educate, Inspire and Realize Innovation” by World Chicago Pro Fellows  As published in World Chicago Pro Fellow –Medium.com   Innovation and Realization Fast growth and success of Facebook and similar startups show us that is possible to succeed with a simple idea and become most popular social network in the world. An idea to be the entrepreneur wasn’t so undesirable anymore. Facebook story show to young people that they can be the new Zuckerberg, have their own company and get […]

  © Getty Images This article is written by ROSS CAREY, executive vice president of Business Banking at U.S. Bank and chairman of the Consumer Bankers Association. And, was published on – THE HILL, 06/01/17   If economic trends continue as expected, Friday’s all-important jobs report will show further strengthening of the labor market and a declining jobless rate across the nation. With national unemployment at a 10-year low, the U.S. economy has arrived at a pivotal moment. In conversations […]

Your Personal Pricing Young entrepreneurs frequently ask me: “Why do you do this for a living?” Well, I tell them, I know my value relative to the price that any employer (customer) is going to pay me (service provider) for consistently delivering that value to them as a paid employee. While I came prepared to answer business & pricing model design questions in front of a live student audience, I hadn’t realized that the value model was the basis for my […]