6/11/2012 – a meeting was held with a key investor in UThisMe, LLC. The new business plan, written by Mark, was presented. A $1 million investment followed. Mark has been continuously involved as a consultant in many roles since.
Category: Work-Mark
Pandemic Zoom Meetings since March 23, 2020
Zoom meetings hosted by us to date: (we attended others hosted by others) Sun, May 3 05:30 PM – David, Ellen, Ian, Cynthia….. Sun, May 3 12:30 PM – OLD Family chat Sat, May 2 06:30 PM – Chat, drinks,etc. with ted and Anne Sat, May 2 04:00 PM – Mark and Karen meet with…… Continue reading Pandemic Zoom Meetings since March 23, 2020
RiversideBusinessCoach.com mothballed
As of 1/20/2020 RiversideBusinessCoach.com is being decommissioned. An archive of the site is here: http://rbc.markorton.com/ (opens in a new window)
Riverside Business Coach – my favorite blog entries and other tidbits….
1/21/2020 I haven’t written anything new for the RBC website since 2017. Yesterday I announced on the site that the business is closing down. This led me back to the site and a viewing of many of the blog articles I wrote over the years. Here are some of my favorites: (all links open a…… Continue reading Riverside Business Coach – my favorite blog entries and other tidbits….
MMO Job History
Carpenter – Ernie Pierce Contracting – summer job – Lunenburg MA – 1964 Factory hand – part time during college – Appleton WI – 1966-68 Track gang – Soo RR – Appleton WI – Summer 1968 Spray Painter – Webb-Norfolk Conveyor, Cohasset MA – Summer 1969 High School Russian teacher – Newton South HS, Newton…… Continue reading MMO Job History
Business Cards – a history
I’ve had a lot of business cards over the years.
Remnants of machinist days
Here are some measurement and other tools from my days as a machinist. For a while I painted a red mark on them to make it easier to retrieve them from other machinists who had borrowed them.
Valuedge, Inc. 1999 – 2004
During 1994-5 Sherry Gordon and I worked on a supplier assessment tool as part of our NESI (New England Suppliers Institute) work. With the help of John Martin of the consulting firm Chadwick, Martin & Bailey we developed an organizational assessment tool based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria. John was a Baldrige…… Continue reading Valuedge, Inc. 1999 – 2004
Mark goes to Taiwan on business, side trip to visit Torrey and Jane in Australia – 8/1986
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Mark in Milan Italy on business, Paris with Harvey Meyerson – 4/1986
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