Is Marketing an Art or a Science?
Marketing professional. This term conjures images of glamour, consumption, and style, much like what the AMC series Mad Men depicts. If you've watched this show or heard talks given by…
Skills Posts
The Truth About Productivity and Efficiency
It was a lie, triggering simultaneous relief and disappointment. Inbox Zero, the badge of honor worn proudly by those who can regularly respond to and act on all emails regularly,…
Resolve: Learn to Stick With It
There is a strange phenomenon in the second half of each January. Gyms around the world start to empty out. Caffeine, chocolate, and alcohol purchases scale back up. TV binge-watching…
Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis
Entrepreneurs come up with new business ideas all the time. Often, they just plunge ahead to develop the product or service without really taking the time to 1) determine if…
How to Find and Recruit a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup
So... you have a great idea for a tech-oriented business and maybe an MBA to go along with it. But if you don't have strong technical skills, then you're going…
Nice Guys Finish First, and Other Lessons from “Give and Take”
David Hornik, a prosperous and respected venture capitalist, offers a term sheet to entrepreneur Danny Shader. After extensive due diligence, Shader decides to sign with another investor. The reason? Hornik…
Eight Traits of True Founders
Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and his team. A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension…
Making the Most of MOOCs
MOOC is an acronym for “Massive Open Online Courses.” These are free online classes that are available to anyone with an Internet connection. Courses are offered by dozens of universities…
Are You a Five-Tool Player?
We don’t know who coined the term “Five-tool player,” but it has been a common phrase in baseball for many years. My suspicion is that it may have first been…
What Can We Learn From Political Debates?
As this blog post from 2012 is updated during the summer of 2024, important elections are occurring in the US, France, the United Kingdom, and other democracies. Prior to these…