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Nail Your Strategy to Increase Focus and Reduce Fear (Video)
Better planning from the outset will steer founders clear of many problems that can plague them later on.
Lay Out Your Road to Startup Success Like a Game of Dominos (Video)
The key is to think in an 18-month rolling vision process.
Maximize Your Digital Marketing Spend (Video)
The key early on is to emphasize quality over quantity says Ora Organics Will Smelko.
The Five Pillars of Maximizing Your Brand on Amazon
A nuts-and-bolts conversation with Netrush's maestro of online marketing Rob Principe.
Why Founders Need to Know about Business Infancy
Young companies have lots of growing to do. Here’s how you can help them grow up big and strong.
How To Delegate with Clarity and Purpose (Video)
An intuitive and practical tool to help entrepreneurs and founders become better at this important skill.
An Argument for Speaking Unarguably
Giving emotion a seat at the conference table can divide your team, or unite it.
Optionality is Great for Entrepreneurs, Until It Isn’t
3 signs that tell you when it's time to focus on your real story.
Startups Need More than a “Git ‘er Done” Attitude
Don't just hire "doers." Your business also needs thinkers, planners and creators.
Fact vs Story
You need both to grow your startup, but make sure you're building off the facts.
No . . . Not Now
A simple (and strategic) technique for founders with more ideas than they know what to do with.
How One Company Lost and Learned from Doing a Postmortem
A short case study of an actual company whose founders agreed to the blog under a fictitious company name and product.
You Are the Reason, Entrepreneur
Face it founders and entrepreneurs, you are the reason your employees aren't getting it.
Hey Founder, Are You Taking the Simplest (and Least Expensive) Path to Growth?
Founders and entrepreneurs should consider taking the simplest and least expensive path to growth.
DANGER: Watch Out for This When Valuing Your Pre-Revenue Company
Rules of thumb for valuing your business, especially when getting funding from family and friends.
Perfect Pitch: How to Build a Deck that Wows Investors
Your pitch deck should reflect your careful thinking about exactly how new funding will advance your company’s growth to the next level. Leave nothing to the imagination.
Do I Need an Advisory Board in Place to Raise Money?
If you're raising money from family and friends who are betting on your success more than your company's success, having an advisory team in place is less important than if you're seeking to raise venture or private equity capital.
Startup Founders, Do You Even Know What Integrity Is?
Why you should implement a popular core value that is routinely ignored in practice.
Why Founders Should Find Their Zone of Genius and Own It
Zone of genius involves doing the thing that comes to you almost effortlessly and that energizes you before, during and after doing it.
CPG 3.0 Gives Small Brands Big Opportunities to Grow
The closer entrepreneurs can get to their customer, the more value they can bring. Are you ready to opt in?