by John Corcoran | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Peter Shankman is a man on the go. The founder of Help A Reporter Out is a frequent commentator on TV, popular blogger, PR professional, angel investor, and author of numerous books. Oh, and did we mention he and his wife are expecting their first child?...
by John Corcoran | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
By almost any measure, Jesse Goff is a very successful photographer. The San Francisco-based commercial photographer has photographed former President Jimmy Carter, musician Carlos Santana and even former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. However, like most...
by John Corcoran | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
[display_podcast] Seven years ago, Neal Gottlieb bet his life savings on a small ice cream “scoop shop” in a sleepy part of Marin county, California. He had no employees, little income and the company almost had no future. That’s because he launched...
by John Corcoran | Jan 11, 2013 | Blogging
I recently got back from three days in Las Vegas, where I was a speaker at the New Media Expo, aka ?NMX? (formerly known as Blogworld). The New Media Expo is an annual conference aimed at new media producers — in other words, bloggers, podcasters, web video...
by John Corcoran | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you are in business today, you probably have a website or a blog. If you don’t have either, then you can check out now. Hand over the keys to your business and turn off the lights on your way out. But if you do have a website or a blog, then you probably are...
by John Corcoran | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I realized in the past year through my work with my business coach that I am a storyteller at heart. There are few things I like more than trading stories with people who are fun, funny, outgoing, and smart. I love interviewing entrepreneurs because I’ve...
by John Corcoran | Dec 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is the latest in a series on spotlights on interesting companies I’ve worked with in my small business legal practice. Diamante Public Sector Group is a Sacramento-based crisis and emergency management consulting group that has worked on a number of...
by John Corcoran | Nov 8, 2012 | Blogging, Business
There’s nothing quite as inspiring as setting an audacious goal for yourself. In the past two years, I’ve set numerous goals for myself. The biggest goal of all was quitting my job and starting my own law firm, which I accomplished in September of 2011. I...
by John Corcoran | Oct 23, 2012 | Client Spotlight, Interviews
Today I am really excited to present the first in series of short Q&A interviews with a few of my entrepreneur clients. I realized recently that it would be really interesting to do quick Q&A’s with a few of my clients, in part because many of them have...
by John Corcoran | Oct 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
The oldest living chef to earn three Michelin stars works out of a 10-seat sushi restaurant inauspiciously located next to the Tokyo subway. In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a 2011 documentary, filmmakers chronicle 85-year-old Jiro Ono, the chef of a tiny sushi-only...
