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Jeff Parker Discusses How Fast-Moving Entrepreneurs Started Their Businesses

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  • Date Added : 8/21/2000
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Jeff Parker

  • Founder and CEO, CCBN.com (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network)
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1942 (Age: 82 years old)
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Jeff Parker has an extensive history of success in both entrepreneurship and financial services that he brings to the table as founder and CEO of CCBN. He is also the founder and managing director of Private Equity Investments, a venture capital firm focusing on start-up and early stage companies. As the creator and CEO of several successful financial service companies over the past fifteen years, Jeff brings an operating perspective to the companies in which he invests, as well as a wealth of financial expertise and an extended network of domestic and international business contacts. In 1980, Jeff founded Technical Data Corporation which he subsequently sold in 1986 to Canadian publishing giant Thomson Corporation. In 1982, he became Chairman and CEO of Business Research Corporation, and in 1983 founded First Call Corporation. Under his leadership, Thomson Financial Services (TFS), as the group is now known, became a major provider of proprietary financial information to the investment and corporate communities. TFS currently serves over 75,000 institutional clients worldwide, and has annual revenues in excess of $750 million. Prior to his association with TFS, Jeff served as Vice President and Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He has also held management positions at Smith, Barney, Loeb Rhoads, and A.G. Becker. Jeff is a graduate of Cornell University from which he received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965, a Master of Engineering in 1966 and a Master of Business degree in 1970.

What was your company like when it first began operations? Now this is one slide that I don't really agree with. Only 50% of the people polled seemed to say look, I was a regular business but small. I would say that really should be most of this circle because I don't agree that the other 50%...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Support Required For Survival
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Video 2 of 24 Jeff Parker States Many Successful Businesses Start With a Simple Idea
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Video 3 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Importance of Controlling Revenue
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Video 4 of 24 Jeff Parker States Majority of Entrepreneurs Did Not Have Parents Who Were Entrepreneurs
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Video 5 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Failures and the Importance of the CEO
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Video 6 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Importance of Executing the Idea
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Video 7 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Importance of Staying with the Plan Rather than Revising It Continually
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Video 8 of 24 Jeff Parker States Entrepreneurs Aren't Different - They Just Take Risks More Easily
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Video 9 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Importance of Sales and Marketing
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Video 10 of 24 Jeff Parker States Majority of Entrepreneurs on Inc. 100 List Were on For First Startup Venture
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Video 11 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Critical Importance of Having Enough Cash
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Video 12 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Developing a Skill Set Before Becoming an Entrepreneur
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Video 13 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Importance of Sales in Life
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Video 14 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Developing and Honing Ideas
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Video 15 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Using Time in Your 20s to Absorb and Learn
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Video 16 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Exit Strategies
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Video 17 of 24 Jeff Parker States Two-Thirds of Successful Entrepreneurs Did Not Have A Business in Childhood
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Video 18 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Raising Money to Start the Business
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Video 19 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses How Fast-Moving Entrepreneurs Started Their Businesses
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Video 20 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Finding Your Own Strength in the Startup, Maintenance or Turnaround Role
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Video 21 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Short Timeframes In Deciding to Start Business
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Video 22 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Debate Over Whether Most Entrepreneurs have Long Term Goals at the Start
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Video 23 of 24 Jeff Parker Describes VC Incubators
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Video 24 of 24 Jeff Parker Discusses Extrapolating a Business Idea from Personal Work and Life Experiences
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