Why Audience Testing is an Important Step in the Tech Startup Naming Process
After you have dedicated hours or even days of your time brainstorming names and crossing off every possibility, you have at last found...
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Feb 21, 20195 min read
Book Review – Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
It started with six pieces of Lego. Dan Lyons, former Newsweek technology editor, as well as writer on the HBO series Silicon Valley (and...
Feb 19, 20194 min read
Startup Funding: When to Bootstrap vs. Raise Equity
When is bootstrapping best, and when is it best to raise equity? Here's a guide for making this critical startup funding decision.
Feb 17, 20193 min read
When to Hire a Content Marketing Manager for Your Startup
Every business lives or dies by the way it communicates. Whether it’s advertising, press releases, social media, email marketing, or blog...
Feb 11, 20196 min read
Equity Compensation for Startup Employees: Top Mistakes to Avoid
Equity compensation is a great recruiting tool and an effective employee retention strategy for startups and early-stage companies. You...
Jan 30, 201910 min read
Strategies for Raising Capital to Build a Startup Team
Start planning to build your early startup team, how you'll compensate them, and your strategy for raising the capital you need.
Jan 24, 20195 min read
Book Review – The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
Four companies are at the top of the pyramid for technology and digital media: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Each one is very...
Jan 23, 20195 min read
When to Hire Your First Employee (And Who to Hire First)
There are several sets of questions that face every startup entrepreneur in the early days of their business adventure. These include:...
Jan 22, 20194 min read
What Should a Business Plan Include?
When you’re setting up a new business, it’s one thing to have a good elevator pitch or a convincing story to tell at a “speed-dating for...
Jan 21, 20194 min read
How to Attract Investors with an Irresistible Story that Makes Your Company Shine
If you’re an avid reader of our blog, you should know by now what financial metrics and growth metrics to focus on in your startup, and...
Jan 16, 20195 min read
Starting a SaaS Company? Here’s What to Do First
There are questions that every SaaS entrepreneur will have in the early days of starting their company. Unsurprisingly, the one question...
Jan 15, 20196 min read
How to Hire Sales Reps for Your Startup and Ensure Their Success
“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.” – Elon Musk Sustainable growth is...
Jan 2, 20195 min read
Why Teams Fail, Part 5: Personal Status Kills a Results-Focused Culture
Sometimes people are happy just being part of the team and the status that brings to them personally. Ensure they're invested in results.
Jan 1, 20194 min read
SaaS Entrepreneurs Think Twice About VC Rounds
Raising venture capital (VC) has drawbacks. Here are 5 reasons SaaS founders pursue other funding options to reach their growth targets.
Dec 26, 20184 min read
Why Teams Fail, Part 4: Avoidance of Accountability in the Workplace
This may be the hardest dysfunction to overcome, because it requires a high level of discomfort to accomplish. Read pt. 4 of Why Teams Fail.
Dec 20, 20184 min read
Book Review – Venture Deals, by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
You need a wide range of skills to found and develop a company. Regardless of what type of product or service you are planning to sell,...
Dec 19, 20187 min read
Why Teams Fail, Part 3: Lack of Team Commitment and Buy-In to Decisions
Functional teams break down when there is a lack of commitment to decisions made as a team. Ensure you have both commitment and buy-in.
Dec 16, 20184 min read
The Two Sides of Annual Upfront Payments and Multi-Year Contracts for SaaS
So, you’ve made it through minimum viable product (MVP) stage and managed to convince a few clients to pay you for your product. Hooray!...
Dec 12, 20185 min read
Why Teams Fail, Part 2: Fear of Conflict
Next in our series exploring why teams fail, we dive into the fear of conflict and why conflict can actually be good.
Dec 11, 20182 min read
5 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2019
Women are creating some amazing companies these days — taking exciting, new ideas to market and snapping up VC funding in the process. A...
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