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  • 5 ‘Must Haves’ When Pitching for a Joint Venture Partnership

    • July 9, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog, Business Tips, Life as a Professional Speaker
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    1. Keep it Quick – Eliminate any unnecessary information that just wastes the investors time.  Don’t ramble on an on about your past, your marriage, your financial situation in life, and any other irrelevant information. None of that has anything to do with an investor deciding to explore a Joint Venture opportunity with you.  If

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  • How to Make a Successful Pitch to JV Partners

    • July 3, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog, Business Tips
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    About a week ago I received an absurdly long email from someone asking me to be a Joint Venture Parter with him to endorse his training programs. My reply to his email began like this: “I’ll cut to the chase and respectfully decline your offer.” I then gave him 3 ways how he could make

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  • More Companies to Follow Tesla Motors into The Collaboration Economy

    • June 16, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog
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    Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.” Musk also said that many patents tend to

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  • AT&T Buyout of DirectTV is a Disaster in the Making

    • May 13, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog
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    According to Reuters, Mega Telecom company AT&T is looking at buying DirecTV for $50 million. You are going to see a lot of these mega mergers happening in the next 5 years. Why? Because outdated business models who have made billions during the information age are struggling to maintain marketshare, and their mentality is “do

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  • Dr. Dre and Apple – Lessons about Collaboration

    • May 11, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog, Business Tips
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    Well you can’t log on to any site right now without seeing some news about the confirmed, but still not really confirmed collaboration between Apple Inc. and Dr. Dre‘s Beats Electronics. A partnership, that would make Dr. Dre the wealthiest hip-hop artist in history, and most likely, based on his entrepreneurial savvy, the first hip-hop

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  • You are Special… Just not THAT Special

    • April 18, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog, Business Tips
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    In the Key Person of Influence Growth Accelerator, I get the privilege of working with successful entrepreneurs, all from different industries. Some are professional speakers, others freak out at the idea of getting up in front of people and presenting. So this blog isn’t limited to just the business of speaking, it is relevant to

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  • Does Your Business Smell Like a Dirty Old Cab?

    • April 10, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog
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    Welcome to a new age of doing business. The information age started dying in 2010 and it’s finally kicked the bucket for good. Why does that matter? Because we as a society always place value on the our current age: In the Agricultural Age farmers were the wealthiest people around. During the Manufacturing Age factory

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  • The 3 Worst Things you Could Have in your Powerpoint Slides

    • February 7, 2014
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog
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    In the 25 years I’ve been a professional speaker I’ve noticed certain things come up year after year, time after time, that make a presentation weaker. When speakers include these things in their powerpoint slides it often turns your audience off and make it hard for them to hear what your really trying to say

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  • Do You Have What it Takes to be the Next Tony Robbins?

    • December 30, 2013
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog, Life as a Professional Speaker, Speaker Tips
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    I can’t tell you how many people each month contact me asking for advice on getting into the speaking business. While the names are different, the scenario is almost always the same. “I want to inspire people to take their lives to the next level!” “I want to help people live their life with passion.”

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  • What Happens When an MBA Grad Predicts Startup Success?

    • December 27, 2013
    • Posted by: Topher Morrison
    • Category: Blog
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    I read a blog the other day that really pissed me off. But then I thought they might just have something… so I stayed pissed off but kept reading. Thomas Thurston, the CEO for Growth Science has developed what he believes is an algorithm capable of predicting the success or failure of a startup company.

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