SIBL 'Regular': Danielle Lanyard
Danielle Lanyard has channeled her passion for resource-sharing across the small business community into a powerful presentation, Launch Your Start Up on Your Lunch Hour, which she offers, pro bono, at...
View ArticleThat Was the Week that Was: Social Media Take-Aways and Tips
As a global event partner for Social Media Week (February 7 - 11), NYPL hosted four events that afforded me, a seasoned librarian but novice blogger, a handy immersion in social messaging—and in my own...
View ArticleIt's New York City 2011 and Black Enterprise is Thriving
In past years, SIBL observed Black History Month with resource guides or bibliographic essays. This year, instead, I’m using this blog post and the next to spotlight a few individuals and initiatives...
View ArticleNext Stop: Onederland
Who stole my days? With February simply too short a month in my book, please indulge me as I continue into March observing Black History Month with a few short profiles. First up is Michelle Newson,...
View ArticlePaisley Demby, B-plan Competition Guru, on Why Savvy Start-ups Use Business...
Can’t think of a more apt way to wrap my trio of Black History Month postings (1, 2) on entrepreneurship than a chat with Paisley Demby. A familiar figure in the New York City small business...
View ArticleTrailblazers: High-Achieving Women 'Play it Forward'
Women’s History Month brings inspiring events and March 2011 has proven no exception. Earlier this month, the New York County Lawyers Association and the Financial Women’s Association co-sponsored a...
View ArticleAward-Winning Combo: Engineering Know-How Plus Entrepreneurial Drive
Inspiring America's youth to study engineering is an Obama administration priority. Many professionals—from trade associations to campus-based groups—focus specifically on getting more women into the...
View ArticleAward-winning Startup: SkyStem LLC. Can You Guess its Business Service?
Hearing the capstone presentations of 20 aspiring business owners in a FastTrac New Ventures program last week inspired me to talk to Shagun Malhotra, who recently told Crain's New York Business what...
View ArticleHelping New Yorkers "Ace" Personal Finance
Here's a shocker! According to Pamela Yellen, CEO of Bank on Yourself, whom Michel Martin interviewed recently on NPR's Tell Me More, 41% of adults give themselves a C grade or lower in their knowledge...
View ArticleMaking Room at the Top: Women and Leadership
The 100+ events that the Financial Women's Association (FWA) runs annually are often quite special. The 2011 FWA Annual Dinner and Women of the Year Awards was remarkably so. For the first time in the...
View ArticleSIBL Showcases Small Business Winners
If running your own business is your goal, let SIBL help! It's not too late to enter the 2012 New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition with three remaining orientations scheduled for December. In...
View ArticleGet Connected @ NYPL: People, Organizations, Ideas
Seeking connections to people, organizations, communities, employers, resources, services, information, opportunities, potentials, and ideas? NYPL — the super-connector — is there for you.Whew! My...
View ArticleMoney Matters! Let NYPL Help You Manage Your Personal Finances
NYPL's business library, SIBL, learned recently that it had been named the 2012 recipient of the Malcom S. Forbes Public Awareness Award for Advancing Financial Understanding. The Financial Planning...
View ArticleTimely Tax Tip! Finding Historical Stock Prices
As the mid-April tax return filing deadline looms, for many last-minute filers this week ushers in a frenzy of organizing forms, receipts, and statements. Imagine your panic if your accountant asked...
View ArticleA Common Sense Financial Advisor: A Chat with Steve Poppel
With SIBL's Financial Empowerment Day approaching on Saturday, April 21, I caught up with Steve Poppel, an independent financial advisor at NYPL's Financial Literacy Central. After our chat it's even...
View Article2011 NYC Book Awards
Did you know that there were more than 150 books about New York City published last year? Given this prodigious output, the New York Society Library, in hosting the New York City Book Awards, makes a...
View ArticleBabiators: A NYC Startup Takes Flight... and Shares Down-to-Earth Tips
Last Spring, I invited my niece Molly and her husband, Ted Fienning, to SIBL to trace the meteoric rise of their new company Babiators, which, in less than a year, grew from an idea sketched on a...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Personal Finance, the Malcolm S. Forbes Award and... Fraud?
What do the late Louis Rukeyser of Wall Street Week, Jonathan Clements of the Wall Street Journal, Consuelo Mack, anchor for PBS Wealth Track, Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, Don Phillips of Morningstar,...
View ArticleJump Start the 2013 NY StartUP! Business Plan Competition
Do you need a BIG push towards realizing that elusive goal of business ownership? If so, the 2013 New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition offers you the option for multiple wins: a piece of the...
View ArticleNYPL's Gift to Online Learners... lynda.com for Free!
In this season of gift giving, the New York Public Library has just added a wonderful new resource — lynda.com— for New Yorkers who need the top of the line in online software training. NYPL's business...
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