Josh Cassel

I just got in from another awesome GKIC-Philly meeting. It was a packed house, full of local entrepreneurs who all came out to hear the guest speaker, Sydney Biddle Barrows. While many people’s thoughts immediately go to what she refers to as her “previous life” when she was the “Mayflower Madam”, Sydney will be the first to tell you that her main focus is not, nor was it ever the “sex business”. The element that made her successful was creating the customer experience, which just happened to have its beginnings in an escort service. Continue reading

If you are among the people out there who believes that social media is just a fad, watch this video and see if it changes your view on social media.

As we get farther away from January 12, 2010, our minds begin to move on to other things happening around us and we so quickly forget about the people in Haiti who are still in need of our help as they try to rebuild what was lost during the earthquake. I posted this letter from the TENTS FOR HAITI Project so that you can remember what happened a month and a half ago and if you haven’t done something to help, maybe this could be a way for you to do so. I feel especially connected to this cause for several reasons. The main reason being that I have been to Haiti several times with groups from Souderton Mennonite Church and have experienced first hand what life is like in a third-world country. Secondly, my sister and brother-in-law were with the group mentioned in the following letter in Haiti during the earthquake and the experiences they had as a result will Continue reading