Author Archives: Jean Niehues

My trip to NYC to visit JJ Ramberg, the host of MSNBC’s new small business show “Your Business,” started early Wednesday morning with a quick workout at fellow entrepreneur Amanda Coe’s Exercise Coach (the founders at Exercise Coach created the twice per week program for busy professionals). After getting my heart rate up a bit,Continue reading “SUCCESS Contest Trip: Sharing the Journey (Take 1)”

There are many company owners who respond in the negative when asked if their business has any intellectual property worth protecting. They would be wrong. The name of their company alone is an asset that can be defended with state and federal trademark protection, and is probably one of the most valuable assets a business has.

When push comes to shove, some businessmen throw caution and all smart business practice sense to the wind. Recently the CEO and founder of FindTheBest, Kevin O’Connor, has decided to take a patent troll, who has been harassing his company, to court. Patent trolls are companies/individuals that impose patent rights against alleged patent infringers butContinue reading “Fighting the Good Fight”

Just under five weeks on the road, with a worcation* in Kelowna, British Columbia jammed into week number two, and only one rain shower when I crossed the Colorado River back into Arizona.  Intern Jake Hoekstra and I traveled from Phoenix to Vancouver, BC in five days and I returned solo (it was planned thatContinue reading “Traklight’s Practice Safe Crowdfunding Summer Tour 2013”

In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act more popularly known as the ‘Sonny Bono Act’ or ‘Mickey Mouse Protection Act’ (due to its fierce lobbying by Walt Disney and Sonny Bono’s wife, Mary Bono) extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. This enactment helped large corporations with exceedingly valued copyrights succeed inContinue reading “Is copyright extension a welcome change?”

Check out our Founder & CEO’s blog post on ProjectEve.com on Small Business Lessons Learned the Hard Way.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally lifted its 80 year restriction on advertising for Regulation D offerings. What does this mean? Unregistered companies trying to raise capital that were previously banned from seeking funding from the public at large through public solicitation can do so now in the form of equity crowd funding.

The Traklight team continues to grow so we thought we’d share a little bit about our newest member to the Traklight team, Kenady Sorenson.  Kenady was involved in the start-up community by taking ASU’s Rapid Start Up classes and graduated with a BA in Poli Sci and Spanish.  Kenady hopes to bring customer service, sales,Continue reading “Meet Our Newest Member to the Traker Team”

Crowdnetic is one of the foremost providers of market data solutions and customizable platform technology in the crowdfunding field. They provide services for the private equity and securities market. Their mission is to make crowd funding more sustainable as well as transparent.

For those of you oblivious to the concept of crowd funding, it is steadily growing as a model of financing small businesses and other endeavours. Indiegogo as a crowdfunding website makes use of social networking platforms to give easy accessibility to a vast pool of investors who typically put up small amounts into projects thatContinue reading “Spotlight on Indiegogo”