10 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More
One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. Then there are the additional challenges…
Business Basics Posts
How to Enhance Your Fundability
Investors are people too. They evaluate you like you should assess a possible co-founder or first employee. What are your credentials? What have you done that would convince me that…
Gender-Based Influences in Entrepreneurship
Do you think men make better entrepreneurs than women, and why? I did some research on this subject a while back, and I found some interesting perspectives. Everyone seems to…
Make Your Startup a Reality Through Self Discipline
Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other…
What’s Your Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential startup investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in…
Ten Tips for Effective Team Collaboration
It takes a great entrepreneur with a great vision to start a business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. That’s where leadership comes…
Reframe Excuses and Embrace Accountability
The fun part of being an entrepreneur is that you get to “be your own boss” and “do things your way.” But sometimes entrepreneurs forget that this kind of freedom…
10 Business Essentials You Don’t Learn in College
I’m sure that every one of us who have been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college…
Crash Course in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all…
Delegate Without Losing Control
For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this…