Dacko to lead expansion of national program empowering high school entrepreneurs ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 19, 2018 –Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneurs Corp (BOSE), the organizer of the Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Competition, the premier entrepreneurial competition for high school students, today announced Ted Dacko is appointed to the role of Executive Director – a critical leadership [...]
Early-stage companies struggle with the concepts of financial reporting. Financial reporting is not accounting. It is the art and science of marrying together sales, marketing HR and financial information to better understand both your history and forecast of your business. Join us at Ann Arbor SPARK at 9:00 am on June 27, 2018 to learn [...]
Arbor Dakota is proud to host world-renown author of Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift, Renée Maugborne for two fireside chats in Ann Arbor on Friday March 30. The first talk will be at 10:00 am at Ann Arbor SPARK Central and the other will be at 12:30 pm Stamps Auditorium at the University [...]
Ted Dacko will conduct an invitation-only 6-session master class for entrepreneurial CEOs in Ann Arbor. The master class is sponsored by Desai and Ann Arbor SPARK and will feature a combination of educations sessions with round-table discussions for early-stage CEOs to help them evolve their companies into growth businesses. Click here for more information
Most startups (well, all startups) spend time in the Trough of Sorrow… trying to gain customer traction. Getting out of this requires acquiring customers and building scale. This class will explain the 20 reasons and provide suggestions for solving these 20 customer traction problems. It is a must course for companies that want to improve [...]
Ted Dacko was honored by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for his work with entrepreneurs and his work with Blue Ocean Shift concepts. Click Here to see more
If you are an early stage company, you should understand that, as with any company, success is more about the team than just the product. This course will cover the basics of building the right team, with the right culture, the right motivation and talent and the right compensation structure. Click Here to Register [...]
Ted Dacko, of Arbor Dakota, was featured in Concentrate Ann Arbor for the write-up in the book "Blue Ocean Shift". Click Here
Ted Dacko contributes blog post to Techstak entitled Small Business Technology Dilemma. Click here to view the post on Techstak
Using Value Innovation to Build Your Company Everyone talks about innovation, but few actually effectively execute. Innovation for innovation sake is not useful. To be successful, you need to think about “value innovation”. How is your innovative approach valuable to paying customers and how will you describe and promote that value? This course will [...]
