Executive Edge Newsletter: 8/1/06 to 8/30/06

Here are just a few great new links, articles, resources, tips, trends and technologies that can be helpful in growing and building your business. As always, Thank You for your feedback and your sharing with us some your resources that can help others!

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1. Advantage Valley Entrepreneurial League System Seeking Business Coaches
   The Advantage Valley ELS is seeking experienced entrepreneurs who have the ability and desire to coach other entrepreneurs. Join the Advantage Valley ELS which is an innovative coaching program in the Advantage Valley region and help develop the regions pipeline of skilled entrepreneurs. Currently the program serves more than 70 entrepreneurs. Click below to learn more how you can help.
   Posted on 08-20 to categories: Your People | WV Business News | Noteworthy News
    
2. New iPod Nano in RED is shipping!
   from Gizmodo - Here's the iPod nano RED, and It has the same specs and price as Apple's other 4GB nanos, except $10 of its $199 purchase price will go toward fighting AIDS in Africa. That money will be contributed directly into the Global Fund, according to Apple. Click to view - this is hot!
   Posted on 08-18 to categories: Your Technology | Noteworthy News
    
3. INNOVA's Kauffman FastTrac GrowthVenture Entrepreneurial Training Programs
   Innova strives to connect entrepreneurs to the best resources available to help their businesses succeed. FastTrac accomplishes this through a series of educational experiences and products. Here is their outline of training for this fall and for the courses next year.
   Posted on 08-16 to categories: Your People | Your Process | WV Business News
    
4. A double shot of productivity - Interview with Starbucks CEO
   I'm kind of a simple guy - brewed coffee, straight black. And I do my own e-mails. If anyone in our company e-mails me or leaves me a voicemail, they get a response, quickly. I'm fanatical about communicating. We have to operate like a store. Nobody likes to wait in line. My Treo is a godsend. I get 200 to 250 e-mails a day, and I respond to 75 percent of them. I'm brief, but that's better than not responding.
   Posted on 08-14 to categories: Your People
    
5. Google launches online writing and spread sheet service
   From Yahoo - Google launched a test version of a service that lets users create documents or spread sheets online instead of needing word processing software on their computers.
   Posted on 08-12 to categories: Your Process | Your Technology
    
6. Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business
   Fortune has released their annual list of the 50 most powerful women in business.
   Posted on 08-10 to categories: Your People | Personal Interest
    
7. Smart-phone sales are soaring
   Smart-phone sales have already increased by 75.5 percent in the last year to 37.4 million units, and will grow by a further 66 percent during 2006, according to data released last week by the analyst firm.
   Posted on 08-08 to categories: Marketing | Your Technology
    
8. Palm Announces Low-End Treo 680
   From Gizmodo - As expected, Palm has just announced the low-end Treo 680 for GSM markets sold unlocked in four colors: crimson, copper, arctic and graphite. Each of these phones come with a 320x320 color screen, 64MB of internal storage, 312MHz Intel PXA270 processor, quad-band GSM, EDGE class 10, speakerphone, VGA camera, 352x288 video recording, and a full QWERTY keypad. Software includes an MP3 player, threaded IM software, and various other PalmOS compatible apps.
   Posted on 08-06 to categories: Your Technology | Personal Interest
    
9. Treo 650s get BlackBerry Connect
   From news.com's Gadgets Blog - Research in Motion and Palm announced Wednesday that Cingular Wireless will now offer Blackberry Connect to Palm Treo 650 users. Since Treo's account for almost 25% of the SmartPhone marketplace this is a very welcome addition.
   Posted on 08-04 to categories: Your Technology | Personal Interest
    
10. America's 200 Best Small Companies
    From Forbes - Their list of the 200 Best Small Companies ferrets out the most robust, fundamentally disciplined public outfits with sales between $5 million and $750 million. Candidates must carry profit margins of greater than 5% with positive sales and profit growth, on average, over both the last five years and last twelve months. The result? Small, but growing, businesses designed to survive the ups and downs of market volatility.
    Posted on 08-02 to categories: Sales | Marketing | Noteworthy News
     
11. Top 10 Web Tools for College Students
    Here is a set of Web sites / Web tools that students use on a regular basis. They are handy because they either a) help get things done or b) educate / inform students about things they need to know.
    Posted on 08-01 to categories: Your People | Your Technology