A Little Weekend Humor: Start of the Small Business Development Season

In case you haven’t heard, small business development is like a team sport. Executive management, the employees, and all the investors have to work together to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of each and every event. The Semantic Viewpoint will start covering the major business development events in Northern Virginia with box scores and highlights.

In many ways, covering a small business event is a lot like covering a basketball game or hockey match. In fact, small business development has many things in common with both. Small business development events take place in large indoor venues. Like hockey, small business development is a contact sport where it is completely within the rules to hip check anyone that tries to approach another player’s prospect. Like basketball, more than one player has been injured by an “inadvertent” elbow during business card swaps.

Like high-school and college basketball, there is a holiday business development tournament. The object of the tournament is to get invited to as many high-profile holiday parties as possible and deliver the business. The really top players excel at these matches. The reason is that these players know that their ranking for the entire year can be determined solely by their performance during the holiday season. Because of the importance of this tournament to the overall business goals of small businesses in Northern Virginia, the preparations and venues will be covered in detail during the next couple of months.

The greater Washington Area has all the major professional team sports: Washington Wizards basketball, Washington Capitals Hockey, the Washington Redskins which is the most popular football team in the NFL, and the Washington Nationals which brought baseball back to the nation’s capital. However, with all due respect to the other team sports, the most popular team sport in Northern Virginia is still small business development. Let the season begin.