“I am garbage.”
This week, four SaaS companies I’ve been involved with as an investor, advisor, board member, etc. since the very early days all announced or raised $25m+ rounds … 2 more are about to announce them … and another (Automile) recently announced…
It seems like everyone and their grandma has an online course. Hasn’t it all been said and done…
What came to your mind when you read that question?
Hi, I’m Kwin, co-founder of Daily.co and two previous startups. This post is part of my series…
How to determine what your freelance rate is by factoring in business costs, and the amount of hours that you can bill in a year.
Today I stuffed up big time.
Running a marketing campaign for your business feels chaotic, right?
So much work goes into a campaign in the hopes of a big return. It can be emotional and stressful and sort of crazy feeling.
A now widely circulated and famous article by Inc. magazine titled The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship unveils…
botkeeper will Bring Bookkeeping Out of the Dark Agesby: Kellan Carter
The siren call of AI/ML is hard to resist: Within enterprise, artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to increase efficiency…
In the third episode of Focus on the Founder, I sat down with Shivani Siroya, the Founder and CEO of Tala. Shivani’s background comprises a unique mix of experiences…
I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to write one of “these” posts. And by “these” I mean one of those posts that…
______________Twice a month, the newsletter of The Family highlights portraits of entrepreneurs we love, good events happening or articles to read. You’re welcome to join the community and get this newsletter in your mailbox. Here is the latest one I wanted to…
The road to success isn’t an easy one. It can be a long, lonely road.
If you’re waiting until it’s perfect, don’t. Good enough is good enough
Every time I waited until I thought it was perfect — to take action, publish, launch, or ship — it never turned out to be perfect anyway :/
Out of the 1000s of sales consultants and “gurus” that are out there, Science-Based Sales®…
Welcome to Cookpad’s global HQ in Bristol, UK.
We’ve been homed in a beautiful grade II-listed building on Broad Plain in Bristol city centre, known as Silversmiths, since June 2017. We’ll soon be expanding into the neighbouring Goldsmiths as our team continues…
“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”
Early on is your business you need to work on your brand identity. Branding is the process of building a product…
Nobody can create a startup on their own, but it can be difficult to engage team members when there is no money with which to pay them. This post outlines a new agreement…
I love you
I love you for all your imperfections. I love you for your crazy mood swings. I love you for your…
Disclaimer: I am not rich and famous yet, but I plan to be. This…
The second part of this article outlines an example of an agreement that can be used to fairly engage talent early on in a startup’s life when there is little or no financial…
A few months back, Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence, went on a…
Welcome to Meet Our Ambassadors — a weekly series that highlights each of the talented PhD students doubling as volunteers who represent Breakout Labs at their research universities and local events.
In July 1979, Carl Icahn was 43 years old. After dropping out of medical school he spent the better part of two decades on Wall Street, starting off as a stockbroker before moving into options and eventually starting his own securities firm. Carl had recently adopted an…
When listening to people share their intentions to start a business, the mention…
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Sofiane Affranchis Album Telecharger
5 things I’ve learned from my minimalist mentor
Licensing & Publishing / Would you sign Kendrick Lamar for 40 million dollars?
by Krishna K. Gupta
Almost all that I have learnt in my entrepreneurial life has been through my own experience. Some bad and some good, but there are definitely a few that I wish I was advised on. There’s nothing wrong in entering the world of business…
1. Instagram was conceived on October 6th, 2010, and was bought by Facebook on April…
Worth noting for all my mates and colleagues across the Health service this is…
As part of joining Aha!, I was given a book to read: Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It. It’s a refreshing business book where Brian de…
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
Have you ever felt like a stooge on a sales call? Like they called you in to steal your time and pad their due…
Artic Warriors is an exciting start-up based in Finnish Lapland at the Artic Circle. It was started by three people who wondered why, while superfoods were the buzz around the world, no one cared about the magical produce of food and herbs grown in and…
Maybe your tax forms are starting to trickle in through the mail, maybe you…
Bevor Unternehmen Bürowände einreißen, CEOs ihre Krawatten ablegen und ihre Zeit auf…
(Read article 1 here, and article 2 here)
This reminds me of a point James Fadiman made on Scott Barry Kaufman’s The Psychology Podcast: the concept of multitude in personalities. Depending on the situation, we shift between our different selves. This “switching gears” metaphor has stuck with me, and I think most writing about self-development/personal growth/personality psych harps too much…
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Making Am Impact
Lazy Christians prefer to spiritualize everything. They don’t want to work for money and success. They don’t want to think for money and success. They don’t want to ideate for money and success. But they sure want to PRAY for money and success. This is not to say that…
A listener of my podcast once asked me:
“Hi Buck,
I’d be curious to know what your personal thoughts are on “higher” education.
“If you had to do it all over again, would you go to med school? Would…
This year, I’ve been partnering with Dell and WeWork to promote women entrepreneurs in the US. I really appreciate the…
Originally published at www.forbes.com on June 20, 2017.
Have you ever visited a hill station? As you go up the twirling roads and then look back, you find it amazing to see how far have you come, and then go back to pondering about the steep terrains that you have crossed! Well to draw in…
I got laid off a few months ago. I have a spreadsheet full of companies I applied for jobs with, and I’ve been dealing with all sorts of interviews. I realized that I’ve branded myself with this label “unemployed” that came to define everything in my life. It makes me feel sort of out of breath…
Guest Post by: Jeff Consul , Institute Of Innovation
I believe the way we act in small, insignificant moments is directly related to how we act when the…
“Every time we interact with another…
Author: Abhinav Jha
Welcome to the Culture CoLab blog :)
This is Part 1 of the Companies Giving Back series. There are some amazing organizations using practical and innovative business ideas to address some of the world’s biggest issues. Our culture is focused on selfishness, division, dehumanizing others while…
The only way to be a writer is to write.
The only way to be a singer is to sing.
The only way to be an artist is to create art.
The only way to be a musician is to make music.
In light of the recent sexual harassment allegations in the entertainment industry, Sara Douglas and Kristina Velkova, the founders of Vitaclean HQ, thought it would be a good time to shine a light on the topic for women wishing to start a company. The…
If you were to ‘depart’ tomorrow, when your peers and loved ones gather to discuss…
The # 1 question I am asked by restaurant owners is how do I build more catering?
The answer is, that much like any other sales cycle, closing a catering customer can often be a slow and thankless process… but its…
Market drivers like our newly-found busy 21st-century lifestyles, more women in the workforce, greater…
Blue Sky and White Cloud. So beautiful a Berkeley morning. I took this photo when I was going to a morning class. I remember this is the tenth day since I have study there. However…
We all have a busy schedule.
Oversimplification… what you might expect from someone who has not taken advantage of precious time to learn just what in the world happened to get us to this point. At 65, a college graduate, and an entrepreneur of sorts , I can trace nearly every success, and some failures, to my college background. Did I get rich…LOL. But that “piece of paper”…
On one hand, while the world is moving towards various advancements in technology, infrastructure and practices which has been impacting businesses in a very positive way, large organizations often tend to stick to their own practices which were…
Rhys, Great article and some insightful points. I just finished a book “Chasing Digital” expected to be published in a few months time and cover aggregation theory and platform based strategy extensively – a guide for pre digital incumbents. The thing is though, the next generation will tackle these challenges in a fundamentally different way –…
So, so true!
“I am OK with failure but just make sure you hit your number” — says Every Manager
Learn how Seattle Public Utilities General Manager Mami Hara is working to change her organization’s definition of ‘team’ and how the range of challenges posed to the team can lead to sustained, shared problem solving.
So, so true! You can also add ego.
I hope you’ve heard this expression before.
(If not, then you may be questioning my politeness or my sanity.)
But it’s not easy. I truly believe that statement. However I do not want to confuse the…
The digital marketing world is rapidly evolving and constantly changing at a ridiculous rate. From a variety of social media channels, to writing platforms (like Medium) and hosting sites (e.g. shopify and wordpress) it’s difficult to keep…
Every time you turn around, there’s a new PR campaign or press release promoting a large company’s…
What some start-up owners still got wrong…
Half of our success lies in how much we believe in ourselves.and the rest of success lies with our friends.Life is a Journeyyou can’t win or lose it.you can keep running until the end.so let’s run the way we like it because life happens only once.Dear friend , it’s not about winning or…
This article was originally posted on www.tapacreative.com
Clients who come to Tapa Creative in need of a logo design often mean they need a brand guide. What I mean by this is that business owners think that the…
It’s always fascinating to read someone’s story who made it into billionaire status. Not because of the number itself, but the mental toughness, focus, will and struggle it requires. There are more and more millionaires and billionaires by each year, but…
Thanks to Tom Kuegler for applauding and commenting on your column Andrea. Otherwise I might have missed it. Not only do I know too many people who have done this to me and others but you remind us all to remember our roots.
I worked with a business coach once when I was struggling with staff issues. We worked for a year…
Overcommitment is a killer!
You’ve done it. You finally pulled the trigger and now you’re running your own business. You have a few employees, and a business partner. With all this anticipated growth, you can’t just stay stagnant. You need to be in the field, making deals, creating a pipeline…
As 2017 winds down, we’re taking the opportunity to look back on the year that was. For those of us in snowy…
When you shift from why to what it’s often because you never pinned down you’re why in the first place, or you weren’t authentic with the true reasons on why you wanted it in the first place.
You’re probably familiar with the tried-and-true formula for calculating business profits. You start with all your…
First past the post with her entry into the 2018 Blogfest is Jakki Francis who writes about Her Biz Her Way.
“This blog post comes about as the result of a personal invitation by my friend and coach Judith Morgan. She has…
By Greg Jackson
So true! This goes to mindset.
Including me! ;)
TIACA has signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with key Latin American organizations and appointed a sales agent to further grow its presence in the region.
Overcoming fear in business is one of the most underrated yet important skills to master in any entrepreneur’s journey. And before you ask, yes, this is a learnable skill, and yes, if you’re starting or growing a business, overcoming your…
Hard to do at times but very rewarding!
Imagine if this elevator pitch was given to you
“There is a lack of reliable sources for procurement of farm fresh produce & it’s impossible to buy directly from farmers without traveling to farms. High consumer demand of farm fresh produce is…
I have been using Medium as, well, a medium to list out my thoughts as I go through each week. There is no particular…
The “fuck it” moment, is when your idea actually becomes action. Also, it is just the beginning. There is a lot of hard work, that will go into make it a reality, but that “fuck it” moment is the most important. It’s when you really realize that the important…
Here is a recent segment that was written about my entrepreneurship tips. Check it out!
I vividly recall watching a skit on Instagram that portrayed a typical Nigerian family at a Prize-giving ceremony. When it was time for the child to receive the “Best in Agricultural Science Award”, the Nigerian Father gave the child a mean look and told him that, he did…
One of my passions is looking at successful people, and learning from them. Observing their behavior and habits, how they think, work and move. I try to adapt what I can use to my own life, so that i can achieve success in business, build better relationships and become a better…
“Kokaachi is the story of an imaginary monster that most Malayalis from South Kerala will be familiar with. Mothers and Grandmothers used to scare us as children that if we didn’t finish our food, Kokaachi would come. My husband and I founded Kokaachi Comics to write the kind of stories…
Simon Sinek was born on 9 October 1973 Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.Simon O. Sinek is a British/American author…
I’m talking about the entrepreneurial journey.
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
Did you go to college graduating soon or know someone who is close to graduation? Remember that feeling of anxiousness?
“One of the things we always talk about is that clothes shouldn’t dictate how you wear them, you should be able to dictate how you wear your clothes.
Our main aim is to be as sustainable as possible with a transparent process. We try to create clothes that have some…
What are you waiting for? How long will you wait to complete something on your bucket list? Will it take a diagnosis with a health issue, the death of a loved one, or a bad rating at work for you to start taking a more critical look at your life?
That is a big accusation over a Man who’s selling a better sense of life and courage to such people who are stuck in their life and are not able to do something in life to achieve happiness and satisfaction, for literally 0 bucks!
He’s never just bragging about the values, he talks about but has always mirrored these values…
It starts when we are very young. The chant from childhood: “Who took the cookies from the cookie…
Nicolas, love your voice. Loved the article. How at such a young age did you piece together this wisdom? I am not a list woman but wholeheartedly agree with what you say. I couldn’t have said it better my self.
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I have finally found a way to make my writing (hopefully) somewhat profitable. No, I have not published yet or made a splash. I…
-I absolutely LOVE and agree with this statement. I’ve been focussed lately on starting the Deliberate Questions Matter blog which tackles this as the primary idea. Is there any chance you would consider posting this article there as a guest publisher while I’m working to build an audience that cares about this topic?
Much appreciated! -Carson
With my MAX THAT SHIT platform, there’s one simple rule: MAX everything everywhere at all times.
This requires one crucial skill. The MAX THAT SHIT platform requires you to make a simple decision to go ALL IN all the time on…
Having a fresh start for your business, this 2018 is ensuring your perspectives and plans aligned with the long-term goal that you created just from the beginning when you are building your business. There is a process that can help your business to…
(Now full on disclaimer, this may not work for you as you belief systems in place or strategies that work for you. This is just a rough approximation of what I have seen and felt work).
What is the most important thing when it comes to being successful in business and relationships? Value. You have to provide value to the other party.
I so like the *Arena* reference, and I remember a related piece by Jason W. Womack MEd, MA where he says — “Entrepreneurs Don’t Fear Failure — They Fear Regret”: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/274204
Do you feel that your business has total control over you? Over the hours you work, over your schedule, and over your thoughts and emotions?
