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…
Tech Startups Evolve – They Aren’t Created in a Big Bang
The traditional model of starting a company is to complete all the steps in parallel, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure…
Self-Knowledge Makes You a More Effective Entrepreneur
If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. After all, you won’t have a direct manager charged with giving you feedback, and…