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Quiz time: Thinking about starting a small business?
By Penni Crabtree Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:12 p.m. Susan T Spencer's Self Test on Starting a Small Business featured in the San Diego Union Tribune Not everyone is cut out for entrepreneurship, so Spencer recommends a little self-test to see if you've got the right stuff to grow a small business. Read the full article ... Read more »
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Cash And Control: An Expensive Business Lesson
Cash And Control: An Expensive Business Lesson The lessons I learned from my first startup company are ones I never forgot. The first two years of my first business, developing, producing and selling sportswear clothing, was challenging and exhilarating. The business grew quickly because I apparently designed a product that appealed to a wide range of female tennis players. In ... Read more »
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Is it Time to ask the 1 Billion Dollar Question?
• Once the Union decertified the Owners had no choice but to call for a Lockout • NFLPA asks for 10 years of audited financials when the IRS only asks for 3 years • An NFL team’s product today( which owners need to cover) is part of their expenses . Look at a team’s web site and count the number of non-player employees and you will know why team expenses to support ... Read more »
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Susan Tose Spencer: DeMaurice Smith Should Be Fired
In an interview with Loriann Larocca, Susan T Spencer, the Eagles lawyer during the NFL 1982 lockout, gives her take on the current status of the NFL lockout. Read the article » Read more »
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Are Women Worth Less?
For more than half a century women have taken a back seat to men in salaries and other compensation. The March 2011 Women in America report prepared for the White House Council on Women and Girls describes the current scorecard this way; “At all levels of education, women earned about 75 percent as much as their male counterparts in 2009.”(Women In America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, page 32). Historically, ... Read more »
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The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers
Lawyers are NOT business men and women. . . they only shake up the process “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” (- William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, circa 1590) If the player reps and designated owners sat down in small groups to talk about the issues without lawyers... without cameras…. and without any preconditions, a deal could be worked out. Once lawyers get involved ... Read more »
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Ann Liguori and Susan T Spencer talk women in Sports and How Gender Works Both ways
Using Briefcase Essentials 12 Natural Talents Gets You Where You Need to Go! Listen to the interview » Read more »
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The Mommy Trap
Read the article on the Huffington Post Website » Jack and Jill met at work and fell in love. They both were earning mid five figure salaries and on a fast track to advance with the company. Jill married Jack. The following year Jill got pregnant and ... Read more »
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My View: Expanding the Regular NFL Season by 2 Games is a Lose, Lose, Lose, Proposal
Susan T Spencer talks about the consequences of adding 2 more games to the regular NFL season The NFL wants to add two regular season games to their schedule simply to make more billions. As a former minority owner and GM of the Philadelphia Eagles I understand the financial stakes and normally would align myself with the owners but the evidence is quantifiable— in the long run an 18 game regular season ... Read more »
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Establishing a Banking Relationship with a Banker Vol. 1
Part 1 of Briefcase Essentials Women in Business Second Series Establishing a relationship with a Banker Vol.1 Read more »
