Why Entrepreneurs Should Practice Self-Awareness, Humility And Empathy
It’s difficult to read about the ongoing saga of Martin Shkreli, hedge fund founder and pharmaceutical CEO, without feeling the overwhelming need to take a shower. Shkreli first burst onto the scene...
View ArticleCreating A Compensation Plan For Startup Success
As with most things in life, managing compensation issues inside of a startup is all about balance. Whether determining your own salary or recruiting new hires, it’s vitally important to get it right....
View ArticleLearning To Embrace The Power of The Crowd
I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to the Holidays, I’m a last-minute shopper. My procrastination in the gift purchasing department is never intentional. It’s just that between raising a...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs: Use This Week To Relax And Recharge
Now that Christmas is over, we find ourselves in the strange no-man’s-land that exists between the excitement of the Holidays and the start of the new year. Offices are closed, clients are on vacation,...
View ArticleEvery Entrepreneur Should Do A 'Year In Review': Here's Mine
A good 'year in review' covers three core areas of your business: your team, your traction, and your strategy. The most important thing is to be intellectually honest and transparent as you reflect on...
View ArticleThree Resolutions Every Leader Should Make For The New Year
The new year is finally upon us, and that means it’s time to talk about resolutions. I’ve always been a fan of setting goals at the beginning of each year because it provides a wonderful opportunity to...
View ArticleLearning To Embrace The Uncomfortable Parts Of Startup Life
There are many aspects of entrepreneurship that are, frankly, uncomfortable. From having difficult conversations with employees to raising capital, doing what is right for the company can force a...
View ArticleIf You Can't Easily Explain What Your Product Does, You Have A Problem
Earlier this week, VentureBeat’s Chris O’Brien published a phenomenal article that explored online productivity app Evernote’s recent trials and tribulations. Back in 2013, Evernote was yet another...
View ArticleFeeling Overwhelmed? Three Tips For Dealing With The Stress Of Being An...
It’s cliché to say that entrepreneurs wear many hats, but there’s no escaping truth. Entrepreneurs and business leaders have to balance the needs of business strategy and business execution alongside...
View ArticleLearning When To Accept Technical Debt, And When To Pay It Off
Being an entrepreneurial leader is all about making decisions and learning to accept tradeoffs. When you’re responsible for an entire organization, there’s virtually no way to balance the various needs...
View ArticleThinking Of Publishing A Book? Here Are Three Things You Need To Know
I do quite a bit of writing, and every so often the idea of publishing a book crosses my mind. Normally, thoughts like “I should write a book!” fall into the same category as “we should start a band,”...
View ArticleFounders: Think Twice Before Pushing For A Higher Valuation
I began my career in the field of business valuation, working with established companies and startups alike. Valuations were always approached from a technical perspective, and it was easy to make fun...
View ArticleThe Top 3 Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned From Watching Football
NFL Conference Championships are upon us, and that means that many Americans will be glued to their televisions or flocking to stadiums. There are so many great entrepreneurial lessons that can be...
View ArticleCould Theranos Go From Unicorn To Unicorpse?
The trials and tribulations of Theranos, the startup “Unicorn” of the medical technology field, continue to mount. For those who aren’t familiar, Theranos is a medical startup that claims to have...
View ArticleEvery Entrepreneur Struggles With Uncertainty: Here's How I Learned To Deal...
The only thing that is certain in life is uncertainty. There are countless things that keep business founders and leaders awake at night. Clients, employees, investors and everything in between can,...
View ArticleAn Entrepreneur's Guide To Managing Anxiety
Building and running a business is often a difficult, stressful, and uncertain process. In a day and age where we idolize successful entrepreneurs, we are encouraged to buy into the falsehood narrative...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Creating Sustainable Growth, There Are No Shortcuts
For years now, the entire startup world has marveled at the rise of the so-called Unicorns, companies that seem to grow at breakneck speeds and achieve unprecedented valuations. Among entrepreneurs,...
View ArticleSmall Business Banking And Innovation Don't Go Together
Small business banking and innovation are two words that you rarely hear in the same sentence. Common wisdom points to heavy regulation as the primary cause of banks lagging behind the rest of the...
View ArticleTrue Grit: How My Team Learned To Thrive In The Face Of Adversity
Every business encounters adversity. It’s one of the few constants that you can count on and it can be all too easy to allow these setbacks to get you down, discourage your efforts, and extinguish the...
View ArticleWhat Assembling Ikea Furniture Taught Me About User Experience
In an increasingly complex and unequal world, there is one experience that is almost universal, speaking to both the agony and the ecstasy of the human experience. I’m talking of course, about the...
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