“The Old Fashioned Way” No Longer Works
It’s time for more entrepreneurs to reset their focus, and shift their thinking to completely different ways of doing things. Everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of business plans…
Startup Valuation Methods & Heuristics
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this…
How To Think Big and Act Bold
What sparks paradigm-shifting innovation in any business? It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea…
Will Your Startup Beat the Hype Cycle?
The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc. back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently,…
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Seeking Investors
The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get the money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in…
Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Secrets
We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong…
Most Startups Don’t Need Investors
There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing, their…
Leadership: It’s Not About Me, It’s About You
Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy…
Gen-X is the Lost Generation That Runs Business Today
What happened to Generation X? They are generally defined as anyone born between 1965 and 1980, sandwiched between 80 million Baby Boomers and 78 million Gen-Y (Millennials). Gen-X has just…
Nail It then Scale It
I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t…