Joel Welsh

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Joel Welsh, Chief Community Officer, is also the CEO of a new startup company ... Showcase U. Joel shares behind the scenes key decisions being made in the "Birth of a Startup" and knocks it out of the park to provide his own entrepreneurial wisdom.
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Ghost Runner on 2nd

Being an entrepreneur with a startup company is a lot like playing sandlot baseball as a kid. Growing up on E. 199th Street in Euclid, Ohio we could often get 6 or 7 guys for...
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Skype Mostly Rocks as a Killer App for Startups

When you are a startup company you learn pretty quickly that your technology infrastructure is based on compromise. There are many aspects of your company that you simply will not consider accepting anything less than...
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You Gotta Start Your Week

Time often gets blurred in a startup company. "Normal" does not apply when it comes to workdays or workweeks. But even when you're in a season of 8 day weeks it's important to have a...
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The Startup Company 2X Factor

I love to admit it, Rich Sloan is right. Do all of your research diligently, assess the landscape of the market, finely define the project at hand, painstakingly lay out a time schedule, assign specific...
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Words Matter

I received a text message over the weekend from one of the co-founders of our new startup company Showcase U. It was short and sweet, as text messages tend to be. But it spoke volumes....
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Working Through the (Holiday) Weekend

Woo-Hoo!! Memorial Day weekend is here!! It's the unofficial kickoff to the summer months. A time when the working world gears up for outdoor activities, fun and frivolity. Today in my hometown of Detroit the...
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An Early Start to a Startup Day

So what do you do when you wake up at 4am with a leg cramp and then lie in bed for the next 45 minutes wondering if it will come back while the challenges of...
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A Strong Foundation

Let's hit the button on the "Way Back Machine" for a moment today. One of the things we took a great deal of time with as we started up Showcase U is talking about, evaluating,...
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Birth of a Startup

I've been the StartupNation chief community officer for four years. That's four years of day after day hanging around eager entrepreneurs, and drinking in the most phenomenal information on the planet to learn about starting...
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Entrepreneurs: Git It While the Gittin’s Good

I was just instant-messaging with a small business owner friend of mine who is clearly in need of a Friday afternoon happy hour break from his hectic and wonderfully-full-of-great-business-from-lots-of-clients week. He shared with me that...
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Start & Grow Your Small Business Step By Step

Entrepreneurs absolutely have to be scoreboard watchers. By that I mean you must know the statistics (the score) that are critical to your business. We are maniacs about that here at StartupNation. One of the...
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Pimped Out Search Functionality

The rockin' great web team here at StartUpNation  has done it again. This time they've made the Search Functionality on StartupNation.com something to be proud of. You can search major sections of the site: Content,...
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Keeping Up With the Jones’s, Internet Style

The internet has leveled the playing field for small businesses – absolutely. Startup companies can reach the entire globe with their product or service in a way that just wasn’t possible a decade ago. Entrepreneurs...
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Entrepreneurs have “Attitude”

At StartupNation we see thousands of entrepreneurs. You come in all shapes and sizes. Different ages and hair color. We’ve done radio shows that talk about entrepreneurial characteristics, and articles on the subject of the...