“A perplexed person stands before two street signs confused on which direction to take. One…
I know that you may have seen a lot of articles about the perfect way to launch on Product Hunt and how you need to prepare months in advance for the perfect launch….
I feel very blessed to mark the 9th anniversary of Paga. Starting and running a business in Nigeria is VERY…
So here’s the thing, I have a massive problem and I’ve had it ever since I attended school. I can’t just do the job required of me, I can’t just do what is the requested minimum. I have always had to be the best at everything and have always my personal expectations are…
A mentor of mine once told me, “Complaining is the number one tell of a non-winning player.”
How many ideas have you had that you never tried? How often do you wish you could do something, but just aren’t…
As the flowers are beginning to blossom and Spring is showing its face here in Tulsa, March also brings with it two…
“Developing the habit of mastering the multiple…
My experience of anti-depressants, capitalism, disconnection and ultimately reconnection.
Every month, we highlight the ten most popular startups from BetaList.
Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms. He has been involved…
Editorial Note: Gillian Morris has been selected as the moderator guiding the “Discovery Roundtable” at the Travel…
When times get tough, it’s tempting to cut ourselves a break.
Relax the regime.
Exactly a year and 3 days ago, I received my admit from Columbia University. I was supremely relieved and…
When I made the decision to exit the company I co-founded, Mothercare Baltics, I had spent 12+…
Self-awareness is the key to success. Peter Drucker has introduced several dimensions of self-awareness…
Choosing Vs being Chosen.
I just got off a coaching call and we talked today about choosing vs being chosen. Whoa that’s a tough one for a lot of people.
At the center of the booming Chicago startup scene, accelerator Techstars Chicago is on…
Alena Vranova is impressive for many reasons. A polyglot who speaks seven languages and a serial entrepreneur, Alena’s track recording includes several successful startups in finance and technology.
These days it seems incredibly popular to fail. Fail fast, fail forward, fail often. No-one is immune from the delights of…
When you get back from work some days, do you ever feel unfulfilled? Ever feel like you want to help your community, but you don’t know where to look?
As we become more aware of issues both domestically and globally, we need to become stronger advocates for the causes that affect our…
Have you ever heard the name of something and were unable to get it out of your head? That…
I’m a long-time listener of noah kagan’s podcast and have always found the shows to be hyper-practical in nature. I haven’t listened to it in a while because I’ve been on an Andy Frisella and Neil Patel Marketing School kick but I put…
Recently, High Alpha Partner Eric Tobias sat down with Rob Martens of Allegion to talk about a…
Over the past few decades everything has became faster, stronger or better.
Yeah, you read that right. Just because a job is routine and boring doesn’t mean that you…
Tech entrepreneurs have climbed the ranks to grace the same magazine covers that once were reserved for Hollywood…
The problem when typical accountants and CFOs undertake ‘cost-cutting’ exercises is…
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” —…
Today, we’re happy to announce GLIDR’s first major integration: Slack. 🙌 Our customers have been asking…
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Los Angeles to attend an event with some of the most exciting…
Taming your inbox increases your productivity… and it’s not all about Inbox-Zero.
There comes a point in your life where you reach a crossroads. You can act and perhaps fail, or you can retreat. It…
Don’t Be Too Proud to Make Friends With Ordinary People
How do you expect God to answer your prayer when you can’t even answer your gateman’s greetings because he is poor? If you want to receive favour from higher up, you must first sow favour down. Don’t feel too proud to associate with your gateman. Even if he invites you…
Mom,
With time, I’ve come to observe there are three key components necessary for a healthy product to exist: Business, Design and Development. This post is by no means a deep revelation or anything new, but it is an analysis I would like to perform as an exercise to…
Is what a lot of people say.
Which of course is an excuse.
An excuse for not putting in the work.
An excuse for not trying.
The Entrepreneur — Investor relationship is critical to the evolution of the start-up marketplace; however, it comes with inherent tensions. While investors and entrepreneurs ultimately benefit from the success of an enterprise…
James Victore is an award-winning designer, author and art director. He’s also one of America’s most creative & provocative…
One of the most misused words being thrown around in the world of business these days must be “strategy.” Folks use the word seemingly for everything — from their “social media strategy,” their “customer engagement strategy” and “sales strategy” to, I kid you not, their “lunchtime employee food strategy.”
During my career I have been involved in a more seed rounds than I care to remember, a bunch of Series A and also…
We have some amazing people working at The Generator and in this section we’ll chat to them and find out a little more about what they do.
Now, this flies in the face of a lot of what I do but I want this out here.
Today’s Google Doodle (above) led me down an internet rabbit hole, exploring the work of John Harrison. Harisson built the world’s first…
When I started my agency Mr. Youth fresh out of college I used to pick up my office phone when it rang(which was at the foot of my bed), change my voice, and act like I was the office admin.
When you land on a website, what catches your attention? Is it the intriguing photographs and pretty…
Few things give rise to the idea that you can do a job better, faster and make more money on…
We have seen it a million times that people equate their net worth with their self-worth. Their identity is married so deeply to their bank statements and quarterly portfolio reports that they have forgotten that money is simply a vehicle for trying to meet our needs…
Have you decided to be your own boss? And do not you want to be the part of a family? However, you do not just want to be the part. But want to be in the family whose house every individual on the go for amazing food. If yes, Oren Loni team…
Blog 002: April 2, 2018
ded·i·ca·tion — dedəˈkāSH(ə)n — noun: the quality of being dedicated or…
What’s up everyone,
I relate so much to this. I’m on a similar path, and restarting from zero is no fun, even if maybe exciting.
We’ve all been taught a weird definition of success, mainly related to career and money. And many discover (like you and me) that this definition doesn't fit them. Afterward, it’s hard to restart. But if you have…
This is a short article about my experience reading the book Planet Dora. It’s a memoir about a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp…
The phrase “born leader” gets thrown around frequently, and it has led many people to…
This is part 3 of a 5-part series. If you haven’t done so already, you can read the first two posts here and here.
The more our portfolio grows, the more convinced we become that in the early stages of a company, the founders are most…
j’ai depuis bien longtemps l’envie de lancer ma propre startup. Mais avoir des idées c’est bien mais comme on le…
This is part five of our “Understanding Your Financials” Series. We began with an introductory post, went on to…
If you’re following the First Client Checklist, then you’re trying to get your first consulting client — but to get hired as an independent consultant, you first need to know what you’re actually selling to a company.
Have you been feeling under the weather? Is your business still in the winter shut down? Don’t you just want to hibernate until the winter goes away?
I regularly go to Mentor Walks, where I get paired up with an experienced mentor who answers a burning question that mentees are…
We often come across startups with a creative mobile application idea and…
To all the unsung freelance writers, this is for you.
There’s something of a sickness plaguing modern businesses. A sickly, sweet odor that permeates many discarded ‘blog’ pages or intermittent newsletters. It’s not just there, either. This noxious…
Reece, great read! “Appreciate the journey, celebrate the small successes, and one day you’ll be able to pause and reflect to see just how far you’ve come”.
Consider this the humblest of humble brags: Amanda and I were recently included in a Vanity Fair feature titled, “26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Media and Beyond.”
It’s an interesting problem er opportunity. Investing in a franchise — as this person correctly…
and the inspiration behind it
For as long as I could remember I’ve wanted to create something. I started drawing t-shirt designs at the age of 6… I think I wanted to call the brand bones… basically everything had flames and a skull. I then…
Yesterday someone asked how to tell the difference between making a decision from a place of intuition or fear? Instantly I answered this:
PUSH VERSUS PULL
The Walt Disney Company acquired the startup I was working for when I was 25.
We talk about collaboration nowadays as the new buzz word for businesses as if it is some new invention, but in truth, our fathers before us understood collaboration as a necessary part of life and applicable to both business and community development. Indeed recall my Grandfather used to…
By Indrachapa S Jayasundera
This is the story of how we grew our YouTube channel from 96 to over 1000 subscribers in two weeks. And it’s still growing!
Ibby is a young New Jersey entrepreneur. I met him through a friend while having lunch in a Rutgers Dining…
Thousands of sales reps use Torch everyday to scan their emails and find prospects that they need to follow-up with. We aggregate this data to find insights on the state of sales outreach.
Very well written and I am fully agree with your point. Even I am also resonating with your thoughts.
Choosing yourself is not about quitting your job. It’s about choosing your life. The universe you create for yourself.
I have also left my day job,failed in several business and then again waked up…
Accelerators are grueling places that ask founders already at the outer edge of their limits to push themselves even harder for weeks on end.
Let me let you in on a secret: metaphors are the simplest tool to make your…
Answer:
I have read the chapter 1;“Do This And You’ll Be Welcome Anywhere” from the book,How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie and come in the the conclusion that if…
Life is not a cemented thing where you must choose your position during your time here on the…
There was one question I heard most often as a business owner and it told me something about the person asking the question…
My book, “State of Readiness”, was published in May this year (2017). And it’s been almost six months since I have written a fresh article. It’s not been for a lack of topics. In fact, I have several topics in the queue for articles I want to write. But, publishing a book took…
This is final piece of a three-part leadership series that I will post over the coming weeks.
Listen to the gurus and they will tell you to live your dreams. We are encouraged to discover our passions and…
It’s a really good idea. I think finding problems is also one of important things designers do. Obviously you cannot solve the problems but there uncomfortable experiences persists. You have to think WHY.
If you don’t have time (should make time), you write it down ANY problems you have found or experienced throughout a day.
Is the Entrepreneurial “Over support” killing our innovation genes in South Africa?
The conversation I always encounter in the entrepreneurial circles is that there is inadequate support being provided to the entrepreneurs hence the challenges which we are facing in the creation of world class entities. I have always been a…
How do I define myself? I think as a mix of everything. I’m the owner of a personal finance consulting business, which…
So you don’t know what to say…
Say anything…
Start by typing anything that comes to mind…
You may be asking yourself, “But what do running costs have to do with a job or organization being legitimate?” and I want to clear that up for you right now…
When we set a goal, we place a carrot at the end of the stick.
It is what it fucking is.•••You cannot single handedly change the world or how it works. You can’t change what people as a collective (i.e society) say or do. It’s just not…
Last week I was talking with a banker about how to save a deal of his that was spiraling out of control. It seemed the Seller had become less and less responsive over the past several weeks and then, suddenly, threw up a wacky…
Another book finished “The Salesmen’s guide to dating” and what can I say about this book. As you can see, I gave it 5 stars but why? The book writes about the sales process, which for me it is the basic…
Mike,
That was me yesterday. I spent most of the day trying to write, but not much was flowing. So I finally gave up, downloaded an audiobook and played Candy Crush for a few hours. Today, the words are flowing like a river.
Imagine being able to have a business and make money based on your passions in life. The thought of not having to answer to a boss, getting told when you can take a break, and being able to make the rules are qualities you would love to hear if you walked into a job…
When was the last time you sat down and thought about how to put yourself out of business?
I assure you, your competitors are thinking about it right now. Ask yourself this question…now! This is an epic question that will lead to epic results. It is the…
Rejection Proof
How’s your everyday routine? Well for me, I start my day focusing on the most important thing…
This innovation in learning reveals the secret to faster learning and explosive performance…. with more fun in the process.
With Easter Weekend just behind us, resurrection seems a good theme for this first spark of April.
Let me let you in on a little secret. Your business pitch doesn’t have to be perfect. It just needs to…
What I did the week of March 25–31 to make 2018 AWESOME.
It's not 'normal' for people to celebrate their own FAILURES. Some consider it crazy even.
But failures shouldn't be your reasons to be embarrassed or sad about your efforts.
If you want to increase profitability you need to first build efficiencies
Focusing solely on increasing sales is like setting up a load of rain barrels next to your house, doing some crazy rain dance whilst ignoring a massive water source…
Envision life program — A two day group coaching workshop that I conduct where we work out interesting brain based tools and strategies to design a life around your dreams and goals!
The human brain is an imagination machine ! When it feels a certain level of physiological and psychological safety it becomes creative and can…
I am fully agree with your point. Even I am also resonating with your thoughts.
I have also left my day job,failed in several business and then again waked up to launch my new business blog on growth hacking called as Growthfunda with proper business plan.
Great advice. I’d add one thought: visuals vastly increase the power of a story. It’s true for all the brands you cite: Cinderella, Star Wars, Telsa, The Most Interesting Man In The World. We know what those brands look like. Seeing those images always reestablishes the emotional connection. You need the right copy, absolutely. Visuals multiple its power and make it more memorable.
SCORE Bucks County will host three Running a Business workshops for entrepreneurs this spring
By Samantha Bambino
The Times
Do you know your rights?
Imagine having a group of friends that you’re extremely close to and do everything with. Now, imagine if that same group of friends didn’t have any personal boundaries. Uncomfortable, right? Nobody is aware of what…
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
What I love about athletes is that it is expected that everything is left out on the court or field. When I played tennis even in college…
