Tom Markel

Comparing team management to pyramid management

Is your management structure working? Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to explain how and why his company converted from the pyramid - top down - management style to the team-based structure.

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Are your values and beliefs out front as you go to market? Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal plans to incorporate his religious faith commitment into the marketing of his new start-up.
How do you test your start-up idea? Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how he has successfully started a dozen businesses by including a "sanity committee" in the process as a way to test his ideas against reality.
This entrepreneur is relaunching his great-great grandfather's 150 year old brewery.Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his efforts to get a family brewery started up again, having been founded in the 19th century.
Are you a prospect for the crowdfunding capitalization model? Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to explain how his organization, iBank.com, is prepared to help anyone who wants to use the crowdfunding method of raising capital.
Crowdfunding is good for start-ups, but is it good business. Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss and debate the issues and elements around crowdfunding and other new capital formation methods.