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41. Solutions Providers: Consider What You Learned From The Past When You Set Your Course For 2016 1/20/2016

    Looking back at 2015, there were a lot of changes — and challenges — in the IT channel. Consider the advice from these leaders at IT channel companies who offer advice on how to approach 2016, keeping in mind lessons learned last year in areas including channel consolidation, cybersecurity, and storage and data.

42. Network Or Community? IT Solutions Providers, You May Be Missing Out 1/20/2016

    The difference between networks and communities is networks connect, communities care.

43. How The Balanced Scorecard Theory Can Help VARs 1/7/2016

    Have you wondered if there is a way to monitor finances and growth progress at the same time?

44. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Are You Ready? 1/5/2016

    As we turn the page on a new year, you should ask yourself if you’re ready. This is our time to reset the counters. While we are in school we have semesters to conveniently break up our work into manageable divisions. You finish the course, get a grade, and move on to the next one. Good bad or indifferent, you have a forced fresh start.

45. ISV IQ Podcast: Best Practices For Software Developers Raising Capital 1/4/2016

    Following is an edited transcript of Business Solutions president Jim Roddy’s interview with HomeZada cofounder John Bodrozic.

46. When ISVs Should Consider The Move From Bootstrap Funding To VCs 1/4/2016

    In this Business Solutions podcast, John Bodrozic, cofounder of software developer HomeZada, discusses some of the challenges software developer companies face when raising capital.

47. A Christmas List For The Small Business Owner In Your Life 12/23/2015

    Running a company isn’t as simple as most business owners thought, and the longer they do it, the more disenfranchised they become. It just wasn’t supposed to be this hard. How do you buy a gift for a person like that? Here are a few thoughts on what small business entrepreneurs and owners might like.

48. Ask Coach: How Do I Validate My Emerging Leaders And Speed Their Development? 12/22/2015

    Slowing down to ask questions actually speeds up protégé’s  growth as leaders.

49. Why Most Small Companies Simply Refuse to Grow And What To Do About Yours 12/17/2015

    You started your own company to provide IT solutions and services, and the technician in you got right to work. According to Michael Gerber, author of the business best-seller The E-Myth Revisited and other books on the topic of small business and entrepreneurship, that was a mistake.

50. Leadership Lessons From My Mother-In-Law's 80th Birthday 12/14/2015

    Rich Anderson shares a few leadership lessons he saw being lived out at that event.