Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level or are not truly innovative.
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10 Business Constants Flourish In This Age Of Change
In this age of constant change, I usually find myself writing about what has changed. Yet I find that periodically it pays to reflect on what hasn’t changed in business, probably won’t change in the foreseeable future, and is still critical to our success in our professional career, as well as the success of our business.
3 Tips For Running A Successful Family Business
Gary Vaynerchuk offers a few tips for anyone interested in starting or joining a family business.
5 Inertia Traps To Avoid In Your Business Leadership
Why owners and executives fall into traps of inertia and the critical pragmatic leadership skills needed to regain the required momentum.
VC ‘Gut Feeling’ : What Does That Actually Mean?
There was an interesting tweet thread started by Semil of HayStack about why he passes on some investments; personal, gut, intuitive feeling. I’m a big fan of him, his investments and his advice, so I wanted to expand on my thoughts around this. It is common for me to politely pass on an investment b/c […]
Interpersonal Skills Are Still Key to Team Engagement
Your challenge as an entrepreneur and business leader is to discover ways to improve the fulfillment of your team, without turning back the clock on technology.
Learning From Your Mistakes Doesn’t Have to Be as Painful as It Sounds
Failure is difficult for anyone. But it becomes a part of your story, often in positive ways.
How To Maximize The Level Of Your Business Contacts
In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high-level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. But people don’t realize that all relationships are not the same. There are people you only recognize on the street, business friends, and then close friends whom you can […]
F*ck Big Announcements: Small Victories Drive Startups
Startups aren’t about big announcements. They are about being in the trenches every day getting just one more small victory.
How To Improve Your Competence And Win People Over
One of the biggest challenges I have as an advisor to tech entrepreneurs is to convince you that marketing is required for your product, no matter how great it is, just to get it found with today’s information overload. A comparable problem is to get entrepreneurs to market themselves, for the same reason. Your abilities […]
The Innovation Green Light Moment: Getting Your Venture Ready to Scale
You are a change maker. Hard work, persistence, and passion have helped you bring your idea to early life. Resourcefulness has enabled you to get insights about problems worth solving, cycle through prototypes, and rough out a business model. You’ve tapped into as many extra hours as you have been able to find in your […]