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About pattysmith

Patty Smith provides strategic ERM solutions and support to organizations in the financial and professional services sector. For enterprise coaching solutions also visit www.masterfulcoachingplus.com.

Mobile Monday During Philly Tech Week

The folks over at Philly Tech Week have really done a great job putting together a diverse week of learning and fun.   For me personally, I am not dialed into this amazing community of talent in Philadelphia, so it … Continue reading

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Turn Your Idea Into An Investment Grade Business Plan

A perennial question in start up territory is whether or not you need a business plan?  If not now, when? Where funding is needed, it is extremely rare to almost never that businesses get funded without presenting their plan, whether … Continue reading

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President Obama signs the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act

H.R. 3606 President Obama signed the JOBS Act bill this afternoon.  A bipartisan initiative with the objective “to increase American job creation and economic growth by improving access to public capital for emerging growth companies.” See [JOBS Act Bill Final, … Continue reading

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Proposed CrowdFund Act s.2190

Proposed by U.S. Senators Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) collectively introduced the “CROWDFUND Act” (S. 2190) [Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud & Unethical Non-Disclosure of 2012 Act]A Checklist of Key Provisions      

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Uncle Sam’s Case for Start Up Acceleration [infographic]

Another weapon in the economic recovery and job creation quiver,  the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Start-Ups Act) may be just what the doctor ordered. President Obama is moving America forward and wants to sign the Jobs Act!  Reuters analysis … Continue reading

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Are You Mobile Yet?

Accenture (ACN) revealed this week that the impact of mobility on business could exceed the impact of the internet according to 67% of 240 CIOs and corporate tech professionals along with 4,000 mobility application developers surveyed across 23 industries and … Continue reading

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Security Alert on Twitter…Twitter Clowns

#TwitterJacking #Twitter Thought I would put up a quick post on this. Here’s how it works.  Someone you know follows you on Twitter.  Their account has already been hacked.  From the hacked account they send you a direct message in … Continue reading

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Derivatively Challenged…What else was Corzine saying today?

As we peel back the layers of exposure from the US financial crisis and look to the potential impact from the impending financial market fall out in Europe, it is abundantly clear regulators and policy makers here are wanting to … Continue reading

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What’s Up With The Robo Recognition Lag? A Reflection on Reasonable Standards of Care in Financial Crisis Response

Needless to say, we’re not going for a popularity contest on the cautionary flags we’ve thrown out on robo settling.  But we are really interested in challenging the status quo of our handling for the longer range.  The stakes are … Continue reading

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The Next 200 Days in American Finance

As a follow up to our earlier post on Fire in the Belly of American Finance, thought I would post a sample short range scenario mapping    

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