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Entrepreneurial wisdom from Lore Systems’ Tien Wong
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev, October 5, 2011
If you are active
in the entrepreneurial or venture capital communities here in D.C., you have undoubtedly heard of Tien Wong, currently the chairman
and CEO of Lore Systems Inc. If you haven’t heard of Tien, here’s a brief summary:
Growing your business — Renaissance style
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev, October 14, 2011
One of things my family
loves about living where we do is that the Maryland Renaissance Festival is walking distance from us, so we usually go over there
a couple times a season to catch a show, eat a turkey leg and see some interesting people.
Leadership lesson from the Penn State scandal
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev, November 16, 2011
Most of us who are sports fans were shocked by the recent events at Penn State University . Besides the alleged crimes (which I will not discuss in this post) there were some other allegations in the press that seemed to indicate that a number of leaders at Penn State – including former head football coach Joe Paterno…
Achieving the important: A lesson from Army-Navy football
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev. December 16, 2011.
As an
Annapolis graduate, a Navy Football letter winner and a coach in the Navy Football system for three years, you can imagine that I
am quite thrilled that Navy beat Army in football for the 10th straight year. Navy fans couldn’t be happier; Army fans, on the other
hand, probably feel more like this. If I were to give West Point advice…
Should your business have a board of advisers?
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev. November 28, 2011
If you were
to ask me, I’d say a successful business has at least the following characteristics:
1) Scalable – growing AND is capable of handling
greater growth
2) Sustainable – continues to grow and be profitable if the owner/CEO takes a two to four week vacation, if a key person leaves the company, or if the most important customer is lost.
What comes next after walking on the moon?
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev, January 10, 2012
Back in 1995, I had the
good fortune of spending four hours alone with America’s first man in space: Rear Admiral Alan Shepherd. I walked into the office
of one of my bosses, Jack Lengyel, who was the athletic director at the Naval Academy at the time, to ask him permission to hold my
wedding reception in the “N-Room” at Hubbard Hall. The encounter was a bit awkward…
