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Vermont Must Reconsider VEGI Application Process	The goal of the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive (VEGI) is a good one – to provide financial incentives for businesses to create new jobs in the state. This is good for businesses because they must meet hiring and payroll goals in order to receive the financial rewards. This is good…	02/08/10
Vermont Rejects 15 New Jobs	With my application in good shape, last Thursday I headed to Montpelier for the Vermont Economic Growth Incentive (VEGI) meeting with the Vermont Economic Progress Council, expecting to be awarded tax incentives for the relocation of Business Financial Publishing to Vermont and creation of 15 new jobs in the state.…	02/05/10
Inside a Vermont Employment Growth Incentive (VEGI) Application	With unemployment in Vermont at 6.9 percent, the people and government in our state recognize that job creation is at the top of a list of concerns about our economy. And like many states, Vermont has a program in place to give tax incentives to companies that create new jobs…	02/04/10
Is Vermont Committed to Job Creation?	Losing is never fun. Especially if you lose when you think you should have won. Last Thursday, I presented my company’s application to the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive Program (VEGI) in Montpelier, Vermont. Despite my plans for the creation of 15 new well-paid jobs in Vermont, the Vermont Economic Progress…	02/03/10
Investing in Vermont: Green Mountain Coffee shares due for pullback	My second Investing in Vermont column for the Burlington Free Press newspaper was printed today in the Business Monday section. You can read Green Mountain Coffee shares due for pullback by clicking here for the Burlington Free Press site. In this column, I examine one of Vermont's most successful companies,…	09/07/09
The Small-Cap Investor: Book Web Site Launches	The Small-Cap Investor: Secrets to Winning Big with Small-Cap Stocks is on schedule, with an official release date of September 14! I just received my advance release copy from the publisher yesterday, and have enjoyed paging through the book that consumed so much of my life for the past year. My book…	08/19/09
Burlington Free Press Investing in Vermont Column	This week the Burlington Free Press launched a new Business Monday section with a focus on Personal Finance. I had approached the Free Press President Brad Robertson (Twitter @bradrobertson) about contributing an investing column to the Burlington Free Press, and his team embraced the idea. The addition of a personal…	08/03/09
Contest: Help Design the Small-Cap Investor T-Shirt	My first book, The Small-Cap Investor: Secrets to Winning Big with Small-Cap Stocks, is coming out on September 14. I've been working on the book for a year and a half, and after many fits and starts, I'm pleased to say the publisher just told me that the book is…	07/30/09
$800 Million Culture: Amazon buys Zappos	Last week I saw on my Twitter feed that Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had announced that the online footwear company would be bought my Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) in a deal valued at $800 million. In-line with the company's culture, Tony posted a letter to employees on his personal blog that…	07/27/09
Video: Guy Kawasaki on Using Twitter	I've been personally using Twitter for nine months, and now I'm looking for ways to enhance my content and use of this platform to better engage and communicate with my business audience of subscribers, readers, business partners, and colleagues. I was recently emailed a link to a presentation from Guy…	06/30/09
EO / MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program - Year 3	Today I'm driving from home in Vermont to the Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts, an off campus retreat center owned by MIT. This is my third year of the Entrepreneur's Organization / MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program (formerly known as Birthing of Giants, when the program was also affiliated with Inc.…	05/27/09
Why Vermont? Lifestyle.	It's been far too long since my last blog post - just over six weeks. This blogging thing takes time, and that's something I've been short on lately. Last week Carrie and I completed our move to Vermont, shedding our city apartment in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC. My…	05/19/09
Wine Library’s Gary Vee Lands +$1 million book deal	The most up and coming wine expert and social media personality Gary Vee just landed a seven figure, 10 book deal with HarperStudio according to the Wall Street Journal. For those not familiar, Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee) is a wine retailer through his Wine Library in New Jersey, and also the…	04/03/09
Paid Content vs. Advertising Supported	I've been thinking more about Plenty of Fish, entrepreneur Markus Frind and Internet business models as a follow up to my blog post from the weekend, Plenty of Fish: $10 million revenues & 50% profit margins. In March, 2006, Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind wrote a blog post titled…	03/16/09
Plenty of Fish: $10 million revenues & 50% profit margins	It's easy is it to build a multi-million dollar web business, right? Buy a domain name. Launch a simple web site. Tell your friends about it. Viral marketing kicks in. And a few months later, you're cashing big checks and rolling in the dough. Sounds easy enough. However, my personal…	03/14/09
My Book: The Small Cap Investor: Secrets to Winning Big with Small-Cap Stocks	This blog has recently taken a back seat to a much larger writing project - my first book, The Small Cap Investor: Secrets to Winning Big with Small-Cap Stocks. The Small Cap Investor is scheduled to be published in September, 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, a well-known publisher of…	03/09/09
The Business of Domain Names	Domain names are the real estate of the dot com world. Like real world real estate, the market for domain names has hit the skids as well, with prices falling from the highs of 2008. With transaction volume and prices falling, a recent article by industry publication Domain Name Journal…	02/16/09
Barron’s Highlights Small-Cap Outlook from Growth Report	Dow Jones' Barron's last weekend printed an excerpt from Business Financial Publishing's Growth Report newsletter, which I founded in 2001 and currently serve as the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Investment Strategist. The below except discusses the performance of small cap stocks last week, as written by our analyst Kevin Pendley. PR is…	01/28/09
Top 5 Priorities: The Story of Ivy Lee and Bethlehem Steel	Today I'll share with you a story that I've heard told by Cameron Herold of BackpocketCOO (former COO at 1-800-GOT-JUNK) at my second year at the Entrepreneur's Organization / MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program in May, and again this autumn when Cameron came to Washington DC to present to the local…	01/24/09
$100,000 Recovery Portfolio: Investing my real money in the financial markets today	Today I'm launching an exciting new investment service called Ian Wyatt's $100,000 Recovery Portfolio. The Recovery Portfolio is an online investing service where I will invest $100,000 of my personal funds into an investment account and show individual investors the specific investments that I'm making to recover from the stock…	01/22/09
Pinot the Chocolate Lab Puppy	I'm pleased to announce the latest addition to the Wyatt family - Pinot the puppy. Pinot is 4-month old pure bred Chocolate Lab puppy who we adopted in mid-December, just before an influx of family and friends for the holidays. They say it is good for your puppy to be…	01/20/09
Email Inbox Zero: Managing High Volume Email	I was recently turned on to the concept of Inbox Zero, an efficient system for managing a high volume of email messages. The Inbox Zero system was conceived by Merlin Mann, a well known life-hacker and blogger at 43Folders.com. Merlin developed his Inbox Zero system in order to help better…	01/15/09
2009 New Year’s Resolutions	With 2008 now behind us, and 2009 off to a busy start, I decided now is a good time to outline some of my personal and business goals and New Year's Resolutions for 2009: Grow Business Financial Publishing subscription business More client interaction Write the Recovery Portfolio newsletter content Start…	01/06/09
Happy Holidays	Happy holidays to all friends, family, colleagues, and partners who read my blog. 2008 has been a challenging year as an individual investor and an entrepreneur leading a company that is in the financial media sector. The extent of the housing market collapse and subprime mess caught almost everyone off…	12/29/08
Teamwork results in quick launch of Trademaster video webinar	In the investment newsletter / content industry, there has been an increased push in recent months to begin using video as a means of delivering content and marketing messages to current and prospective users. In our industry, we are targeting individual investors, typically men who are 45 - 75 years…	12/15/08
Team Polizeo: Alex Roy & Tim Ferriss in BMW M5 - Attempt to Break 30 Hours, NYC to LA?	This weekend I spent some time reading about Alex Roy and his record breaking car race across the United States. On October 7, 2006, Alex broke the record for the fastest cross country trip by car from New York City to Los Angeles, California in his 395 HP BMW M5…	12/08/08
Wall Street Journal: the coming collectable car crash	Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled "A Rough Ride in Collectible Cars" on the same day as my blog post about a visit to Ferrari and Lamborghini in Italy, and slowing market for collectable cars. The Wall Street Journal article points out some recent examples of the…	11/26/08
Maranello, Italy: Home of Ferrari and Lamborghini	On our recent honeymoon to Italy, I convinced Carrie to take a couple days in Bologna. Bologna is known for its rich Italian food, some of the best in the country. You may be familiar with Bolognese pasta, which takes its name from the region. Within a short drive are…	11/25/08
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Names Business Financial Publishing #66 Fastest Growing Company	Business Financial Publishing was recently named to the Deloitte 2008 list of the fastest growing companies. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years, from 2003–2007. Business Financial Publishing grew 3,791 percent during this period. While it is nice to be recognized and receive this award…	11/23/08
Sequoia Capital Presents Doom and Gloom: R.I.P Good Times	Over lunch today with Daniel of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, we were talking about Zappos and their plans to cut 8% of their workforce. Daniel mentioned that TechCrunch had posted the 56-page Powerpoint presentation that was shared with all portfolio companies of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm…	11/11/08
Record Unemployment Hits Small Businesses	The U.S. economy continues to show signs of prolonged weakness with a report last week from the U.S. Labor Department that 240,000 jobs were lost during the month of October, bringing unemployment to a 14-year high of 6.5%. The negative report for October follows worse than expected job losses of…	11/10/08
Barack Obama Tax Increase	Yesterday Barack Obama won the election for U.S. President, and will become the first African American to lead our great country. It has been a remarkable campaign and election, and this historical outcome is something we will remember for the remainder of our lives. I got some great feedback to…	11/05/08
Why Barack Obama’s Tax Plan Hurts Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs, and the Economy	Election day is tomorrow, and I've been meaning to weigh in on Barack Obama's tax plan and what I believe it means to small business owners and entrepreneurs across the United States. Let me start this off by stating I'm a big fan of Barack Obama. As an independent voter,…	11/03/08
Back from Italy, and back to work	My new wife Carrie and I are now back from a great three week honeymoon that took us on a tour throughout northern Italy. Out travels took us to Venice, Bologna, Florence, Siena, Porto Ercole, and Rome. It was an amazing three weeks of visiting city sites, touring the Tuscany…	11/02/08
Carrie + Ian: Married October 4, 2008	I'm pleased to announce that on Saturday, October 4 Carrie and I were married at our home in Vermont with 130 guests from around the country and traveling from as far away as China and France. We had a wonderful weekend of events and enjoyed sharing this special place that…	10/07/08
Ouch! Dow tumbles 777 points today	I don't have much to say other than that today was a terrible day for investors. Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 777 points, a record one day point loss for the benchmark index. The U.S. House of Representatives voted down a $700 billion bailout package being pushed by the Bush administration.…	09/29/08
Business Breakthroughs and Adventures	Earlier this week at an Entrepreneur's Organization event in Washington DC, Cameron Herold introduced me to Yanik Silver. Yanik is built a successful online business (InstantSalesLetters.com) and more recently started an events business targeting entrepreneurs. His newest company, Maverick Business Adventures, creates world class events for adventure and risk seeking…	09/26/08
Focus On Things Within My Control	In business, as in life, I've learned the importance of focusing on those things that are within my control. Last night I was speaking with my fiancée Carrie and she told me that the Weather.com forecast calls for cold weather and a chance of rain on our fast approaching wedding…	09/25/08
Painted Picture: Business Financial Publishing 2011	The best way to ensure that dreams become reality is to take the vision from our minds and share it with people. The following vision, what I call my Painted Picture, is a vivid mental image of what Business Financial Publishing will look like, feel like, and act like by…	09/23/08
Painted Picture: a 3-year vision of the future	I had never heard of a Painted Picture until earlier this year while attending the Entrepreneur's Organization / MIT Masters in Entrepreneurship Program. One of my favorite speakers at this years program (my second year) was Cameron Herold, founder of Backpocket COO. Cameron is the former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, a…	09/21/08
Historic Week on Wall Street	The Dow is up almost 400 points in today's trading, and could make this the fourth day in one week when the Dow posted moves of greater than 400 points, with two up days, and two down days. The volatility has been simply amazing. The rally today was sparked by…	09/19/08
Twitter for Business	Social networking site Twitter has been on the up and up, with currently more than two million users. While Twitter's business model remains in question by Silicon Valley outsiders (and perhaps insiders alike, although the company has raised $20 million in venture capital), the question arises as to whether this…	09/17/08
Business Financial Publishing #185 on 2008 Inc. 500 list of fastest private cos.	I've been bragging about this for a few weeks now, and think its also worth posting here. I highly recommend picking up the September issue of Inc. Magazine, or visiting the Inc. 500 / Inc. 5000 web site. The September Inc. 500 issue is my favorite of the year, and…	09/14/08
Why Blog? And Why Now?	I’ve been thinking about this question the past couple weeks, as I have worked with our designer and web developer in preperation of the launch of this blog. But even as I worked on getting this setup, I continued to ask myself, why do I want to start blogging? Why now? …	09/10/08
Inc 500	Business Financial Publishing, founded by Ian Wyatt, was named #185 on the Inc. Magazine 2008 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. More info>>	09/05/08
Ian’s Affiliations	Entrepreneur’s Organization (http://www.eonetwork.org), Washington DC chapter member Entrepreneur’s Organization / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Master’s in Entrepreneurship Program, participant	09/05/08
Ian’s Companies	Business Financial Publishing (http://www.bfpublishing.com), founder and president Health Advice Media (http://www.healthadvicemedia.com), founder and president Ecosandals (http://www.ecosandals.com), angel investor	09/05/08
About Ian	Ian is a serial internet entrepreneur and individual investor. Ian enjoys downhill skiing at Sugarbush and Stowe and boating on Lake Champlain. He is an avid collector and drinker of wines, primarily from the Willamette Valley of Oregon, since his parents introduced him to world class Pinot Noir. He also…	09/05/08

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