Wasabi Ventures Press Releases and News:



-WV General Partner Announces Scholarship
-Wasabi Ventures Launches - Announces Initial Portfolio

Portfolio Company Press Releases and News:



- WV Portfolio Company TekTrak Founder Featured as Vator TV's Entrepreneur of the Day
-PBworks announces Agency Edition
-TecCrunch Covers TekTrak
-UpRace Harnesses Social Networks to Accomplish Real-life Goals
-Announcing IdeaOffer: Incentivized Innovation and Feedback Platform for Any Budget
-TestSoup Announces Custom Test Prep Solutions for Educators
-WV Portfolio Company - Metricly Featured in Gigaom
-Wasabi Media Group Unveils Parched No More Beverage Events Section:
-TestSoup Announces Free Study Program for Enlisted Airmen
-PBworks Launches Voice Collaboration Platform
-Wasabi Ventures Portfolio Company AppJet/EtherPad is Accquired by Google
-Funsherpa (a WV portfolio compnay) gets Written up in Thrillist
-Funsherpa.com Leads Way to Best Things to Do in Chicago
-Wasabi Ventures announces the launch of Idea Offer
-Song Journals - Share More Than Music
-PBworks is a Top 50 Start-up
-PBworks launches Project Edition
-PBwiki Changes Name to PBworks
-PBworks Legal Edition
-PBwiki Adds a Mobile Edition
-Want an Audience, Start a Fight
-PBwiki Simplifies Hosted Collaboration for Mainstream Use With 24/7 End-user Support
-Explore the Internet and Win Free Candy
-PBwiki Brings Web 2.0 to Education by Donating $25 Million of Tools for Back to School
-PBwiki: Growing in a Recession
-PBwiki names Jim Groff CEO
-PBwiki Reduces Email According to the NY Times
-Believe Wireless Doubles Residential Internet Connection Speeds in Baltimore
-VSI Snags NY Dragons as a Partner
-VSI Creates Neopets Toolbar

Wasabi Ventures is made up of experts in the fields of online marketing, technology product management, entrepreneurial knowledge, sales management, customer service management, and business development management.

They have shared their expertise in written form in many different publications and books.

Some of the recent published articles can be seen below:
-Success on the Side
-Start-up Town
-A Numbers Game
-Building Championship Organizations
-Searching For An Alternative Management Style
-Newtonian Look at The Bust
-Dealing with Dummies
-Minimizing Staff, Maximizing Profits
-What Makes People Buy?
-What\'s The Real Value of an Extranet
-Pamper the Good Ones... Ignore the Really Bad Ones
-Write Proposals That Work
-Freelance Partnerships: Opportunity or Oxymoron

You can also review books that the staff of Wasabi Ventures has written:
-My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley - by Ben Casnocha
-Web Advertising and Marketing, 2nd edition - co-authored by Tom Kuegler
-Web Advertising and Marketing, 3rd edition - by Tom Kuegler
-The Medici Effect - by Frans Johansson


 

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Two of the Hardest Things an Employee Must Do

Inspired (and infuriated) by a good friend’s plight at work, I created two projects on IdeaOffer to solicit the advice of the internet community on two of the hardest things that an employee ever has to do: tell a boss “no” and ask for a raise.  Many people avoid doing either of these things at all costs, but they are important steps to take if you don’t want to be taken advantage of, even if your boss is a fair one but has too little time to devote to you and your unique situation.

I’ll start with how to ask for a raise because that was the first issue that came up with my friend.  She had been working at her job for over a year and had been lured in with a higher wage than she ended up getting.  In that time she had been given very favorable reviews and significantly more responsibility.  But no raise — not even up to the level the company had initially promised her.  What to do?

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