{"id":721,"date":"2010-02-03T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:51:37","slug":"sizing-up-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/03\/sizing-up-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizing Up Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I spoke at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.fasttrac.org\/event.cfm?eventID=1409\">Gilbert FastTrac GrowthVenture meeting<\/a>. It was a pleasure to see so many founders and\u00a0entrepreneurs\u00a0in a room sharing\u00a0knowledge, insights and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet any one of them could have stood up and shared their thoughts with all of us and we would have learned as much (or probably more) than we did by listening to me for 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, it takes a community, an ecosystem to create a thriving\u00a0entrepreneurial\u00a0economy &#8211; and while that is a topic for a different post &#8211; I was thrilled to see\u00a0entrepreneurs\u00a0coming together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m including the slides below, and I hope you find them helpful &#8211; but the real value was in the richness of the dialoge.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left;\"><a style=\"font:14px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px;text-decoration:underline;\" title=\"Gilbert Fast Trac Feb 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/briantroy\/gilbert-fast-trac-feb-2010\">Gilbert Fast Trac Feb 2010<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=gilbertfasttracfeb2010-100203142652-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=gilbert-fast-trac-feb-2010\">http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=gilbertfasttracfeb2010-100203142652-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=gilbert-fast-trac-feb-2010<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"__ss_3063909\" style=\"width:425px;text-align:left;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma, arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;\">View more <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/briantroy\">Brian Roy<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I spoke at the\u00a0Gilbert FastTrac GrowthVenture meeting. It was a pleasure to see so many founders and\u00a0entrepreneurs\u00a0in a room sharing\u00a0knowledge, insights and experiences. I&#8217;m willing to bet any one of them could have stood up and shared their thoughts with all of us and we would have learned as much (or probably more)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/03\/sizing-up-your-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sizing Up Your Business<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[67,116,120,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}