Sometimes the best thing that can happen to an ambitious entrepreneur is to have their business knocked down — because it pushes them to find new ways to solve a problem. That’s what I saw when I met Saber earlier this year. For the past 10 years, he’d been helping…

People make a lot of mistakes when they launch a startup. One big early mistake is thinking that you need a giant launch to really make people notice. And it’s a mistake because they forget that all of the real work only starts after the launch. Because the game today…

Startups are hard because even the startups that do an incredible job can die. Valar morghulis, all startups must die. At The Family, that’s led us to understand a few lessons. One is that you have to put a ton of effort into customer service when you’re a…

Let’s talk marketing and sales in the age of COVID-19. Spoiler: You can’t stop doing either of them. COVID-19 brought together two phenomena when it comes to marketing your business and making sales. First, there are a ton of people pushing content online. …

Become an entrepreneur? Maybe. But how, especially in a world that’s already full of them? When you finish business school and try to become an entrepreneur, most of the problems come from one thing: you’ve learned really well how to plan things, but have no idea about execution and on-the-fly…

Confinement was just the beginning. What mentality do you, as an entrepreneur, need to adopt for everything that’s coming next? On the most basic theoretical level, the economy has the supply side, companies that make goods and services, and the demand side, customers who want those goods/services. …

If you’re a student finishing high school or university, the world probably looks pretty bleak at the moment. Everything you thought would be happening as you go toward that next big part of your life is either on hold (at best) or totally impossible. …

I’ve always been fascinated with how we learn. It started when I was young, because I really just wanted to spend as little time on schoolwork as possible. — I’d wait until the last minute to do my homework, so I needed to figure out techniques to let me get by (and to make “the last minute” even later). Luckily, the brain is a muscle, and everything that goes through it can be organized. …

Actually, 4 mistakes, I included a bonus one ;) — In American schools, there’s a fascinating thing that kids do: Show & Tell. For all of you Europeans who don’t know it, it’s simple. Kids bring in an object, just a normal object from their…