#298 Amit Kumar, Larry Dorie, Karl Ronn, Christopher Conner

Amit Kumar is the head of Yahoo Small Business. He has deep expertise in ecommerce and is here to help small businesses sell products online. He gives advice for what to consider when starting an online store and what tools are available to help.

Larry Dorie, co-founder of RHUB Communications, is a senior executive with 30 years experience in starting/growing high tech companies. He discusses how to make meetings (both face-to-face and virtual) more productive, more secure, and less costly.

Karl Ronn is Managing Director of Innovation Portfolio Partners, a Silicon Valley firm that helps CEOs and the top management of Fortune 500 companies find and develop new to the world products and services. Karl helps small businesses focus on the future and create their reciprocity advantage.

Chris Conner has spent the last decade in the franchise industry working with several hundred different franchise systems in management, franchise sales and franchise development work. He discusses how to know if a business is ready for franchising and how to make the transition from owner operator to franchisor.

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