Hire and Nurture the Right Startup Team
Helpers do what you say, while good help does what you need, without you saying anything. People who can help you the most are actually smarter than you, at least…
Pass These Ten Tests Before Starting a Company
Making the decision to become an entrepreneur is a major commitment, with huge implications for skills and lifestyle. Yet there is no standardized testing or certification required or available anywhere…
Laying the Bedrock of your Startup’s Culture
I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days. Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a…
Incremental Improvement is Safer than Innovation
If you are an entrepreneur starting a business for the first time, I recommend that you find a product concept that is already accepted and improve on it, rather than…
Think Young and Thrive
To be an entrepreneur, you have to navigate lots of unknowns, and the path is fraught with risk. Once you are past a certain mental age, you know too many…
Assemble Your Army of Entrepreneurs
Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised…
Can B2B Dating Work?
People tell me there are over 5,000 online dating sites, but I couldn’t find one that focused on matchmaking business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Yet, every business expert tells me that finding…
Seven Tested Success Secrets
Even though I have seen many startups succeed, and many that failed, I still struggle with what really makes the difference. It seems like some CEOs are just more tuned…
Freelancers are Entrepreneurs, Too
You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important and are a growing part of this new “age of…
Take Your Innovation and Start a Revolution
Great startups these days start with innovation, and then take it up a few notches to make it a revolution. An example is Google, who turned a new search technology…