122 FORT GREENE PL APT 1 BROOKLYN, NY 11217 Get Directions
122 FORT GREENE PL APT 1 BROOKLYN, NY 11217 Get Directions
For the past 25 years I've been developing innovative business solutions for major corporations such as ICI Americas, TV Guide, Wyeth, Comcast as well as a number of small Internet companies.
In the summer of 1997 my wife Kate and I began our first entrepreneurial venture; The Nags Head Dolphin Watch & Research Center. We ran this business sucessfully for 12 years, learning a great deal about the dolphin populations of North Carolina. During this span of time we also started several other successful businesses as companions to the Dolphin Watch.
•Whalebone Watersports was our new business that operated the physical site and store where we ran the dolphin watch.
•Outer Banks Adventures was a business cooperative which united several small Outdoor businesses to help them compete with the large multi-site/multi-activity businesses through joint advertising and cross promotional bookings.
•And finally The Outer Banks Center For Dolphin Research a 501.c3 non-profit research organization formed to continue the dolphin reasearch project that we had begun in 1997.
When we sold the Dolphin Watch, due to a family health matter, I dusted off an idea I had been toying with for several years and began giving form to DelVal.biz. Harking back to the Outer Banks Adventures, I thought it would be useful to create a place where newly formed small businesses could find all of the resources and networking contacts they would need to survive and thrive. Our daily data set, I'm a data junkie btw which is a main reason why I came up with this idea, consists of an average of 60-80 new companies that are formed daily in the 5 county Philadelphia region. These five counties, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia, account for 45% of all new companies formed in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh area accounts for another 20%. So it is easy to see that the Philadelphia region is the best test-bed for the concept of a Regional Small Business Social Network.
During the next year or so we will be developing this concept and expect to be able to roll-out copies in a number of other regions of the country. So I invite anyone with an interest to help us develop this concept. It is said that 80% of new businesses fail in the first five years, I want to bring that percentage down for the Delaware Valley and I think DelVal.biz is the tool. So taking a page from Guy Kawasaki I suggest our motto will be: DelVal.biz - Empowering Entrepreneurship!
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