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Latest Strategic Planning Ppt,Blog News

May 30, 2014/in Blog, Strategic Planning Ppt /by Robert Goodman

Live: Finextra Future Money, day two
12:05 Audience Q: is there too much of a focus now on exit strategies, do entrepenours just want to make a quick buck. Khan says half the … Some firms already talk to potential investors about exit plans despite not even having a product. Big red …
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Exposed: For-Profit Colleges' Blueprint for Blocking Obama Regulations
Posted on the website of an accounting firm in Puerto Rico is a revealing PowerPoint presentation dated February 20, 2014, and credited to Steve Gunderson, the CEO of APSCU, the trade association of for-profit colleges. It outlines APSCU's plan for …
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"Event Entertainment and Production," Celebrates a Decade of Success as The …

May 30, 2014/in Blog, Starting A Small Business Checklist /by Robert Goodman

"Event Entertainment and Production," Celebrates a Decade of Success as The …
His company was created in 1985 to fill a growing need for music, entertainment, speakers, headline entertainers and supportive production in corporate and association meetings, conventions and special events plus facilities, casinos and concerts, the …
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Work At Home Business Opportunity, T Mobile Phones, Solavei

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Business Ideas For College Students /by Robert Goodman

http://cutyourmobilephonebill.com http://www.solavei.com/paully1111 Home Business Investing, Best Home Based Business Ideas, Working From Home Opportunities,…
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Latest Financial Planning Worksheet,Blog News

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Financial Planning Worksheet /by Robert Goodman

6 Lessons I Learned From Finishing a 21-Day Habit Challenge
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Over the past few years, I've really focused on growing my financial planning practice, my blogs and my other online ventures. … As part of the challenge, I had my readers print off the Bad Habit Destroyer worksheet.
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How Do You Do Money? Cait, Managing Editor
… to do guilt-free and know there's still some in the bank if you need it. Do you need help getting your money in order? Tell us why you need a financial makeover and you could win a customized financial plan from a Certified Financial Planner …
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Business Web Page Hosting

May 29, 2014/1 Comment/in Blog, Web Business Ideas /by Robert Goodman

http://cybersmartwebmarketing.com/hosting-service/ As seen on TV – “do-it-yourself” websites for “only” .95 per month… DON’T BE FOOLED!

Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya: on Aage Borchgrevink's "A …

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Business Gift Ideas /by Robert Goodman

Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya: on Aage Borchgrevink's "A …
The fake-diploma business turned out to be much more lucrative (or at least more accessible) than the blood-diamond trade: over three or four years in his mid-20s, Breivik amassed four million kroner (approximately $ 670,000). …. computer time was …
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Should Michael Grimm step down?
(CNN) – U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm failed to report more than $ 1 million in sales and wages at a Manhattan restaurant he once ran, using unreported cash to pay workers "off the books" to "evade taxes and keep more money for himself," a federal prosecutor …
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CashStar Wins “One to Watch” and “People's Choice” Honors from Paybefore …
“We take great pride in leading the transformation of the world's most popular gift into a strategic marketing tool that helps retailers grow their business and build customer loyalty,” said Ben Kaplan, CashStar's president and CEO. “These awards are a …
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Latest Strategic Marketing Planning,Blog News

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Strategic Marketing Planning /by Robert Goodman

Think You Know Your Market? 13 High-Value Insights from Your Online …
… and other executives to harness that valuable market data. Related Resources from B2C » Free Webcast: The Success of Visual Brands: How to Measure the Value of Instagram. However, with all that is involved in planning, growing, and keeping …
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Some Independent Agents Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Their mortal enemies include the large national insurance marketers, area captive agents, plus a wide swath of local, regional, and digital competitors. … They take on the murky shapes of strategic mistakes and tactical errors. Here are nine such …
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Latest Financial Planning Calculator,Blog News

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Financial Planning Calculator /by Robert Goodman

MiddletonRaines+Zapata, LLP Welcomes New Partner Stephanie Roth

May 29, 2014/in Blog, Own Business Ideas /by Robert Goodman

MiddletonRaines+Zapata, LLP Welcomes New Partner Stephanie Roth
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author. Related; Print; Email; Feedback; Add This; Blog This … Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data? The Only Enterprise IT Event in 2013 Covering …
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Straight No Chaser Announces "The Happy Hour Tour," a Massive 58 City, 66 …
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author. Related; Print; Email; Feedback; Add This; Blog This … Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data? The Only Enterprise IT Event in 2013 Covering …
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Geospatial Corporation (Formerly Geospatial Holdings) CEO to Present at …
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author. Related; Print; Email; Feedback; Add This; Blog This … Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data? The Only Enterprise IT Event in 2013 Covering …
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Neoris to Participate in SAPPHIRE® NOW, Featuring Innovative Demos of SAP …
Neoris, a global business and IT consulting company that specializes in outsourcing services for SAP® solutions and applications, today announced it will showcase three demonstrations in its booth at the SAPPHIRE® NOW conference, the world's premier …
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New Business Ideas That Make You Insanely Successful

May 29, 2014/1 Comment/in Blog, Business Advertising Ideas /by Robert Goodman

http://thealternatelifestyle.com/daegan-capture-en.html Click the link above to see how I was able to create the online business of my dreams. Enjoy it and s…

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WHO + WHAT + WHEN

THE COMPLETE STARTUP EXECUTION METHODOLOGY — FREE

W Cubed™ is a complete startup execution methodology designed to take a founder from the company’s real Point A toward Ready for Prime Time™ by showing how the financial, operational, marketing, staffing, product, legal and fundraising pieces fit together.

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It also helps expose the problems founders often do not know enough to look for yet: weak driving assumptions, hidden cash requirements, premature hiring, unrealistic schedules, missing dependencies and seemingly small micro-decisions that can create company-wide consequences.

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What You Actually Get — FREE

The Founder Launch is a substantial working document, not a few pages of theory. It puts the startup roadmap, decision structure and practical implementation tools directly in your hands.

204 Action Items
A company-wide execution sequence identifying the work, accountable WHO, timing, dependencies and expected result.

50 Milestones
Objective Definitions of Done so progress is measured by completed results rather than activity.

9 Action Plans + Gantt Charts
Nine coordinated roadmaps covering founder reality, economics, market evidence, financial modeling, strategy, product, staffing, operations, go-to-market, traction and fundraising.

4 Go/No-Go Gates
Structured points where the founder stops, examines the evidence and deliberately decides whether to proceed, modify, pause or stop.

WHO Chart™ Hiring Methodology
A disciplined way to define the ideal person before hiring employees, contractors, cofounders, consultants or people who influence driving assumptions.

Driving-Assumption Stress Tests
Questions designed to expose who chose a critical assumption, what qualifies them to choose it and what happens throughout the company if it proves wrong.

Costs, Roles, Checks & Founder Tools
Costs founders overlook, role guidance, Before You Move On checks, field notes, decision tools and practical implementation resources.

Compound Knowledge™
More than four decades of recurring startup lessons, patterns, mistakes and second- and third-order consequences captured so you do not have to learn all of them the expensive way.

Pieces of this work historically represented thousands of dollars of consulting value for individual clients. Today I am giving the complete methodology to the startup community.

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THE OPTIONAL AI PRODUCTION COMPANION

AI Arsenal™ Lite

W Cubed™ shows you what needs to be done. AI Arsenal™ Lite helps you actually produce the work.

Lite contains 50 guided founder workflows. These are not one-line prompts that simply ask AI to “write a business plan.” Each workflow interviews you, identifies missing facts and UNKNOWN assumptions, challenges the logic, creates a usable work product, red-teams the result and tells you what to carry forward into later workflows.

Most importantly, the workflows are designed to leave you with deliverables in your hands branded for your own company — not merely an interesting AI conversation.

Examples of what Lite can help put in your hands:

First-pass Business Plan
Integrated financial projections
Excel-style financial models and schedules
Startup-cost budget
Cash-burn analysis
Runway schedule
Maximum cash-hole analysis
Base, downside and upside scenarios
Pricing and willingness-to-pay analysis
Revenue staircase and revenue math
Customer and transaction requirements
Lead-funnel and CAC analysis
Gross-margin analysis
Launch-delay stress tests
Growth-capacity stress tests
Go-to-market plan
Sales-process plan
90-day launch plan
WHO Chart™ hiring and contractor tools
Candidate and team scoring tools
Investor Executive Summary
Pitch-deck outline and red-team review
Due-diligence preparation
Weekly KPI/control framework
Full startup red-team memo

The goal is to let AI perform as much of the expensive first-pass production work as possible so you can spend human professional dollars only where judgment, verification or specialized experience truly matters.

As of October 2026:
First 100 downloads — FREE
Next 100 — $9.95
Then — $19.95

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The W Cubed™ Founder Path

1 — W Cubed™ Founder Launch
Understand the entire startup execution system and what must happen next.
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2 — AI Arsenal™ Lite
Use AI to help turn Action Items into your own documents, spreadsheets, analyses, scorecards and plans.

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3 — Experienced Judgment When Needed
Bring in the appropriate expert when a high-consequence decision deserves relevant Compound Knowledge™ or specialized professional judgment.

Do not pay professionals to do production work that W Cubed™ and AI can help you do yourself.

MY PRIMARY SEMI-RETIREMENT FOCUS

Five Year Life™ Publishing

After more than 4½ decades of starting companies, raising capital, operating businesses and working with startup CEOs, my primary focus today is no longer building another consulting practice.

My focus is Good-Man LLC and the Five Year Life™ publishing program — preserving as much of the Compound Knowledge™ I have accumulated as possible while I still have the time and energy to do it.

I have already completed three books and have two additional books roughly 80% complete. My hope is to finish those and write several more while I still can.

That shift is also one reason W Cubed™ exists. I cannot personally mentor every founder who may benefit from the lessons I accumulated, but I can capture those lessons in books, methodologies, tools and AI-assisted systems that can continue helping people without requiring my direct involvement.

Five Year Life™ is therefore not a side project attached to my old consulting business. It is a major part of what I have chosen to spend this stage of my life doing.

Explore Five Year Life™

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FEATURED BOOK BY ROBERT LEE GOODMAN

Your Last Paycheck™

Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI

First, Financial Triage After the Layoff.

Second, Mapping Your New Personalized Career Path in the Age of AI.

Job loss is never just a financial event. It can destabilize your income, savings, family, confidence and sense of professional identity, often at the very moment when you need to make some of the most consequential decisions of your life. Your Last Paycheck™ was written to help readers confront those realities with practical guidance rather than panic, while recognizing that artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the employment opportunities and career paths available to them.

Part One — Financial Triage After Job Loss

The financial-stabilization and career-repositioning layer of the Five Year Life™ system begins with the immediate challenges of losing a paycheck. The first half helps readers stabilize money, benefits, housing, credit and the urgent priorities that cannot wait while the job search unfolds.

Readers are guided through the difficult decisions surrounding financial runway, household spending, unemployment benefits, emergency resources, debt pressures, professional relationships and the practical steps needed to protect what matters most. The objective is to establish a more stable foundation before a temporary income disruption becomes a much larger personal and financial crisis.

Part Two — Your Career Path in the Age of AI

The second half maps a personalized career path for the Age of AI — including 100 emerging AI-related job and career titles spanning immediate-income opportunities through senior executive positions. The focus is not merely on finding another version of the job you just lost, but on understanding how your existing experience can become the foundation for work that may be more resilient and valuable as technology changes the labor market.

Readers explore AI literacy, career repositioning, transferable capabilities, new professional roles, and ways to evaluate training opportunities without wasting scarce time or money. The goal is to help you identify where your existing knowledge and experience intersect with emerging opportunities, then build a realistic path forward.

Who Should Read Your Last Paycheck™?

This book is for people who have recently lost a job, fear that a layoff may be coming, or recognize that their profession is changing beneath their feet. It is also intended for spouses and families affected by employment disruption, career counselors, outplacement professionals and corporate leaders who want to help people make better decisions during difficult transitions.

You are not starting over.
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Why Am I Giving W Cubed™ Away?

I am Robert Lee Goodman, MBA. Over more than 4½ decades I started 49 companies and limited partnerships, raised outside investor capital 44 times from 1,342 investors and worked with thousands of startup and emerging-company CEOs.

Those experiences accumulated into what I call Compound Knowledge™: pattern recognition created by making decisions, living through their consequences, discovering what was missed and carrying those lessons into the next company.

I do not want those lessons to disappear into old consulting files when I finally stop doing this work.

So instead of trying to monetize every piece of W Cubed™, I am turning as much of that accumulated startup knowledge as possible into a methodology founders can use themselves.

The complete W Cubed™ Founder Launch is my semi-retirement gift to the startup community.

If it helps you avoid one bad hire, one unrealistic assumption, one underestimated cash requirement or one micro-decision that could have grown into a company-threatening problem, giving it away will have been worth it.

A DELIBERATELY LIMITED HUMAN BACKSTOP

At Most 100 Founder Retainer Blocks

Because publishing is now my primary focus, I have agreed to make available no more than 100 blocks of 10 consulting hours for founders and startup-company CEOs.

The purpose is not to have me do work that W Cubed™ or AI can do for you.

The highest-value use of that time is often helping you identify, challenge and pressure-test the driving assumptions you are most worried could jeopardize your company’s future, financing, cash runway or ultimate success.

That might mean examining a launch date, staffing plan, revenue ramp, pricing assumption, CAC expectation, working-capital requirement, capital raise, contractor recommendation or another decision whose downstream consequences could be much larger than the original decision appears.

The objective is to give you access to an experienced second set of eyes when the consequences of being wrong justify it — not to make you dependent on a consultant.

Standard Founder Retainer

10 hours • $2,500 • usable over 12 months
Subject to availability and then-current terms

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Contact Robert

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA

CEO & Chief ImpleMentor™ • CEO RESOURCE LLC

“I Help Startups Start & Stay Started.”™

49 companies and limited partnerships founded.

44 outside-capital raises totaling approximately $120.1 million in today’s dollars from 1,342 investors.

Worked with thousands of startup and emerging-company CEOs across 49 states, more than 70 countries and hundreds of industries.

Not Sure Where to Start?

Start with W Cubed™. It costs nothing, the complete methodology is included, and it may expose the question you did not yet know you needed to ask.

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