Startup Founders Can Learn from Reality Television
As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investors, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank...
7 Business Expansion Drivers Every Startup Can Use
The military has long recognized that machine guns are force-multipliers for rifles, but businesses have been slow to capitalize on...
7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School
Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around...
7 Indicators of Employee to Entrepreneur Potential
As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and having graduated from a big company myself, I talk to many people who...
Investors Love to Fund Solutions That Are Scalable
Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are “scalable” and “ready to scale.” But...
8 Steps to Exit Your Startup With Pride and Profit
Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Although many won’t admit it, true entrepreneurs can’t wait to exit their current startup,...
Bootstrapping Is Much More Fun Than Investors
A candid look at why you need to know how to bootstrap...
9 Great Paths To Recurring Revenue For Your Startup
Every new business quickly realizes that revenue coming in every period on a committed basis is the holy grail to...
9 Lessons for Entrepreneurs from a Sales Expert
Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe that a great idea alone will assure business success. Experts argue that it’s more important to...
6 Keys to Make Sure Your Product Fits Today’s World
Great technology leads to innovative solutions that are possible, but not necessarily great businesses. Rube Goldberg illustrated this principle many...