What Kind of Entrepreneur Do You Want to Be?
You are an aspiring entrepreneur, eager to dump the corporate grind and work to the beat of your own drum, but you can’t come up with that killer idea to…
9 Bad Habits Entrepreneurs Need to Break
After working with dozens of startup founders, I’m still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem…
Have You Heard What the Internet Said About You?
The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. Now the measure is how many hits one has on a Google…
Plan Your Life – Plan Your Business
It’s sad when the startup is “successful,” but the founder still feels totally unsatisfied. I see it happening all the time. The business is a winner, but the family or…
Spot Dysfunction at the Top
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes…
Are Women the New Men?
It looks like women have caught up with men in numbers in the workplace. For the first time in history, women in the USA now outnumber men in the workforce,…
Reigniting Growth in a Service Business
A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up…
An Overnight Success Takes Years
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while,…
How to Spot and Avoid Tech Bubbles
In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production, and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many…
Professional Investors Don’t Sign NDAs
Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. Most investors and…