What Made Your Startup Great Won’t Keep It Great
Many modern software product teams believe agile development translates to constant improvement for customers, and as a result, resist formal...
5 Priceless Lessons From One Successful Entrepreneur’s Mother
I often think about how my mother raised me to become the person I am today. Not only was she...
5 Lessons I Learned After I Started My Own Business
If you are an entrepreneur, you already know that starting a business is a lot of work. While courses and degrees...
Your Practical Brand Marketing Strategy
When most people think about a brand marketing strategy, they think about identity. “Who are we as an organization? What...
One and Not Done: How Success and Failure in My First Startup Drove Me to Another
Maybe we "one-and-not-done'ers" are crazy to be willing to start a business again and again. We know it will be...
4 Tips for Holding Better One-on-One Meetings With Your Employees
Holding one-on-ones is a fundamental strategy to developing a successful and engaged team. The best one-on-one meetings center around the growth...
7 Criteria to Help You Choose the Right Investor(s) for Your Startup
Whether it happens before the doors open, or after a few years of “bootstrapping” with founder money, every startup reaches...
Due Diligence and the Fallacy of Risk-Adjusted Returns
A 2008 paper “How Unlucky is 25-Sigma”, describes an interview with Goldman Sach’s then-CFO David Viniar who referred to their...
How Startups Can Make The Most of Their Marketing Budget
While there's no magic formula to startup marketing, there are some easy, high-impact tactics you can use. To utilize marketing...
The Pace of Social Change and What it Means for the Legalization of Cannabis
One of my favorite slides in my investor deck is titled “The Pace of Social Change” which features a great...