Click here to listen to the Weekly Welcome. This week we have guest editor Kim Beasley, "Strategy Guru for You" and owner of Agape3, Inc. sponsoring Brain Storm. Kim Beasley has worked in Corporate America for approximately 20 years. Using her many skills to serve major businesses, non-profits, and organization through providing business consultation, she now is a leading strategy guru. Visit her business blog at http://www.quikonnex.com/channel/page/kbeasley/ (this is a good business resource blog) or her website at http://www.agape3.com to find out more details regarding the services that she can offer your business to help it strategically plan for it's future.

The areas of concentration have been:

• Business Strategy Planning
• Business Support (virtual administration services)
• Project Management
• Web site development & deployment
• Human Resources planning
• Marketing planning
• Topical Research
• Office Automation
  

What's included in this week's Brain Storm...

• What's Next: Why It’s Pouring VC Cash, Business 2.0, January/February 2005
• What Works: The 2005 Smart List, Business 2.0, January/February 2005
• Interview with Scott Allen, January 2005, (click here to listen to the audio), conducted by Kim Beasley

Point 1: Have you been looking for Venture Capitalists to invest in your upstart business? Well guess what, the tide has turned and now VC’s are looking for businesses to invest in. According to Business 2.0, “money raised in 2000…will be closed to new investments after 2005…” So now is the time to look for investors ready to invest. [Read More!]

Introduction: With a new year comes a new list of companies that made a smart move to position itself as a leader during the previous year in their industry. The purpose of this article is to provide you with great examples so that you can learn how to become a "bold thinker", create "brilliant ideas", develop "clever strategies", or even implement a "savvy execution". Business 2.0 shares with you their "...annual tip of the hat to the brightest minds in business and the miraculous feats they've accomplished." [Read More!]