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Pono Media Wishing all of you a Happy Thanksgiving! Mahalo for all of your support.

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Earlier this month at the [re]Think: Hawaii conference, I announced my partnership with Ed Young of TEYC Hawaii and launched Entrepreneurs-Wanted.org.  EW will provide the following to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Posted:2009-11-25 03:05:58 GMT
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Pono Media Announcing: Telework Hawaii

Doing Business Anytime, Anywhere…..Why Not Hawaii? The desk of an entrepreneur and teleworker. Earlier this month, Sean Fox and Lance Furuyama of New Horizons Computer Learning Center launched Telework Hawaii. “Our vision is to promote telework and telecommuting in Hawaii and to become an advocate for telework.  Telew...ork Hawaii’s vision it to grow the overall understanding and acceptance of the benefits for our companies and employees.” Fox has 7-years of telework experience in Hawaii and...
Posted:2009-11-20 23:42:50 GMT
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Pono Media Takeaways: Mobile Northwest 2009

MobileNorthwest 2009 is for mobile-focused companies who continue to innovate and break ground in the mobile industry. The conference is attended by regional mobile executives and is supported by Samsung, Mobile Mondays, mocoNews.net, WIP (Wireless Industry Partnership), TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), among others. Con...firmed speakers include Tom Huseby of SeaPoint Ventures, mobile consultant Chetan Sharma, along with executives from T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon....
Posted:2009-11-20 23:01:21 GMT
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Pono Media Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii: Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

For a second year in a row, Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) honored Hawaii’s top entrepreneurs in six categories: Young Entrepreneur: Dan Lueck, President of Ikayzo, Inc. Clean Tech Entrepeneur: Mark Duda, Founding Member of Distributed Energy Partners Digital Media: Jeanette Hereniko, Founder and President ...of AsiaPacificFilms.com Invention: Heidi Kuehnle, Co-founder and Chief executive of Kuehnle AgroSystems Inc. Entrepreneurship Advocate: David Fisher, founder of Maui Venture Consulting Social Entrepreneur: Henk Rogers, Founder of Blue Planet Foundation Read more...
Posted:2009-11-20 21:40:15 GMT
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Pono Media Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii: Young and Hip Entrepreneurs

Hawai’i Pacific University Entrepreneurship Center, College of Business Administration presented “Hawaii’ s Young and Hip Entrepreneurs” for Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii. I was fortunate to be on the panel and was inspired by the energy of the audience, made up primarily of HPU students and members of the MBA Cl...ub.  Fellow panelists included, Lorenz Sell of FindMeFit.com and Fresh Cafe owner, Tiffany Tanaka. Three points that were common amongst all panelists were: Be willing...
Posted:2009-11-20 02:33:20 GMT
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Hawai'i Pacific University Entrepreneurship Center, College of Business Administration presented Hawaii' s Young and Hip Entrepreneurs for Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii.
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Pono Media Video: [re]Think: Hawaii

Experience [re]Think: Hawaii through the voices and minds of the world wide attendees. Mahalo to Aric S. Queen for producing this video....
Posted:2009-11-20 00:46:21 GMT
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Pono Media Must see!

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Experience [re]Think: Hawaii through the voices and minds of the world wide attendees. Mahalo to Aric S. Queen for producing this video.
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Pono Media Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii: Pitch Competition

Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii “The Pitch Competition is an educational event designed to stimulate entrepreneurial development in Hawaii, and to train entrepreneurs in pitching to finance their ventures.” Audience at Pitch Competition Mentoring for this competition began in October with semi-finalists selected la...st week, and the finalist competing last night during Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Bankers Club in the First Hawaiian Bank building in downtown Honolulu. Here are the results: Business Elevator Presentation Tyler Morgan, HonuGuide...
Posted:2009-11-19 00:04:58 GMT
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Pono Media Global Entrepreneurship Week Hawaii: Results of the Pitch Competition

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Mentoring for this competition began in October with semi-finalists selected last week, and the finalist competing last night during Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Bankers Club in the First Hawaiian Bank building in downtown Honolulu.
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Pono Media Pono Media friend and supporter, Joel "The Franchise King" Libava talks about the current state of the franchise industry.

Anyone interested in opening a "Fat Burger" franchise in Hawaii, let me know! :)

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'The Franchise King' Joel Libava breaks down the state of franchising during the recession.
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Thank you, NEENZ!
November 16 at 8:03pm
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Facebook reportedly has an astounding 360 million users to date, so it doesn't seem very impressive that Renren.com, China's Facebook-like site recently topped 100 million users. But here's the thing, ...
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At least according to Michael Brito at SocialMediaToday.com. Check out his list of companies hiring for social media and digital positions. If you're in Hawaii, entrepreneurship is thriving ...
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Take a look at this humorous, yet truthful debate about social media. It's obvious that I'm a proponent of all things social media, with the exception of the influx of informercial-like experts running ...