A few years ago I had the good fortune of getting to interview Tim Ferris for The…
Being an entrepreneur and running your own business is one of the hardest things you can do. It will tax…
A founder has many roles in building and scaling a successful company — raising capital, developing an organization, recruiting a strong board, and constantly working on a winning culture. But ensuring you offer a product customers love is always job one. In my own…
I thought I’d share chapter one of my soon to be released book, The Decision Checklist: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Problems.
“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn
Hello World
The benefits of strategic outsourcing are no secret, whether implemented for personal or…
“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by…
If there’s one thing I hear regularly when I meet people for the first time, it goes…
This is a short story about my adventures in investing in myself and my business.
Many companies are scared to…
What do I spend?
Networking is a necessary part of the career development process. It helps you discover…
“By three methods we may learn wisdom…
I’ve been avoiding this post for way too long and I want to start by acknowledging that I have not spoken up before. What I allowed to stop me is honestly just a bunch of excuses that might also be running through your mind unchecked.
(Note: In case you’re wondering, this post is a followup to this (which I received more comments/emails…
As an anxious but enthusiastic 17-year-old, I welcomed graduation. With images…
Shakespeare once said “ I was crying as I didn’t have shoes and then I saw a man without feet and I stopped crying.”
Today was my first day as a full-time entrepreneur — and it was not as scary as I…
What do you say at the end of a sales appointment?
Nestled in the Kumaon hills in northern India, 7,000 feet above sea level, is a boutique organic cosmetic company. The founder of the family-run Junaili spoke to Grin.
Becoming an entrepreneur is the new “American Dream.”
This post was originally posted on http://jackcanfield.com/
Medium Can Be the Pillar of Your Content Marketing Strategy
You can’t build anything truly valuable today. But you can get started.
Finally a dispassionate and intelligible explanation of the ICO phenomenon. Thanks Michael Flaxman!
The comparison to snake oil salesman is both important and accurate. Is there a chance that a snake oil could cure all ailments? Is there a chance that a particular ICO could lead to an early shot at he next Google, Facebook…
For the first time in the last two centuries, there has been a notable decline in world income inequality.
“Get professional help —…
A Journey’s End: What To Do When Your Co-Founder Leaves
In my early days as a business owner, I was surrounded by support; family, friends, and colleagues…
Last week Untapped Founders (“Untapped”) had its fireside chat with our special guest, Kelvin…
Alright, let’s talk about code.
I am pretty sure every entrepreneur, investor, product manager or whoever interacts with software development should get this.
Your company’s idea is like an empty house…
As my time being Marketing Lead at IDEA comes to an end, it is my pleasure to introduce our third IDEA Impact Report…
Transcend Your Enemies Instead of Fighting Them
In a plane, those in First Class are allowed to walk to economy, but those in economy are not allowed into First Class. In life, many economy people will pick fights with you. Instead of fighting back, simply move to First Class. They can’t get there. End of quarrel. That is…
Today we are launching BRV Office Hours, but we’re approaching your standard open office hours a little differently. To bring the most value, we are opening up our network so you can ask hard questions, get feedback on what you are building, or advice on how to build it better…
By: Tonya Lagrasta, Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility & PwC Canada Foundation
Booths, speaker dinners, VC pitches, networking events… With 70,000+ attendees, the WebSummit…
In weak companies the dreamers are expected to serve the planners…
Whenever you ask successful people what made them successful they’ll always say persistence.
That they never gave up. That they never stopped believing in themselves. That they kept on pushing. No matter what.
Yesterday I had a text from a member of my community, it read:
My dear friend Regula, this is for you.
My $20k mistake — Why I now only hire freelancers
By Colin Gillespie
NIGERIA MY BELOVED COUNTRY
I used to sing this song when I was a pupil “Nigeria my beloved country working together is the key”
Now I understand what it meant. How can a home be divided against itself and you expect it to stand? Nigeria the giant of Africa wake up!
As of today, the doors of Stack Creative are officially open.
What is Stack Creative?
Glad you asked!
We’re a small, independent, multidisciplinary creative studio based in Toronto, Canada. Our core offering…
I wrote a list of things I wanted to achieve this year way back in January. Leaving my secure job with no new…
A ‘home-baker’ is a person who produces products like breads, cakes, biscuits, pies and the like, at ‘home’.
In this regard, I am a home-baker. I have dedicated a specific and hygienic area of my residence for my workshop. The reason for doing so was…
When I was 20 years old, I decided I was going to be successful.
There’s one thing that most start-ups have in common, and it’s that at some point, you’ll be sending off a pitch deck to potential investors. For some it’s a walk in the park, but for many it’s a dread-inducing minefield that can, at times, feel impossible to navigate. Here are a few basic tips…
To work on that book.
On that album.
On that painting.
On that thing you enjoy doing.
Hello May,
“Under the California Homemade Food Act, local governments cannot ban cottage food businesses based in private homes. Instead, home-based entrepreneurs can sell their…
If you were to go back 12 years ago you would have found me in a lab in King’s College University about to start my PhD. Having just finished my degree and being a completely naïve 21-year-old, I had no idea what I was getting myself in to! However, I was filled with enthusiasm, a desire to…
“Life is dirty. It’s not going to happen the way that you expect, but you know what? It’s also beautiful, and you find out that once you get started in your journey, that you may find a path that you didn’t even know existed…
Or a different way to build your business so you don’t sacrifice everything else in the process.
People tell me all the time, “You’re not that busy,” or “You had all day to do your work.” For some…
It was November 2015, I remember the moment distinctly. I was standing in the mess of a Forever 21 in San Diego when I…
Yeah! I am an Entrepreneur.
It was really great how u lured me into validating against those points and all that mattered was believing in oneself. Thank you for making me realise that deep down in their somewhere there is an Entrepreneur in me.
Great Article Again. Please keep writing more.
I recently came back from a business trip that took me around the world. Japan, Ukraine, New York. Working…
No seriously, it’s up to you.
Any start-up can tell you that finding the right team members is one of the most critical aspects to development. In…
At the moment of writing, my son is about 180 days old. Here I leave a learning I want to document and will…
I’m writing a slightly abbreviated retro this week as I’m in the middle of a rather-intense and full week of management offsite meetings for Dimagi.
By: Kaelyn Charbonnet
Embrace each challenge in…
In the world of 7.6 billion people,
Read time: About 4 minutes!
Happy New Year!
I’ve been wanting to write sooner but figured you’d probably be too busy kicking things off and your…
Nowadays, the rhetoric is fixed. It is incredibly different to what our parents grew up in. There’s this notion that there is only one outcome. ‘Winning’.
My daughter wants all my attention, all of the time.
DaddyDaddyDaddyDaddyDaddyDaddyDaddyDaddyDaddy. Daddy.
Daddy.
She has zero concept of all my other important priorities. She simply doesn’t care.
Since our childhood, we all have been asked this question at least once: “What are your…
Last week was incredible. Why? I spent it in Singapore with a truly exceptional group of people, all committed to aiding and celebrating the efforts and successes of 18 impact driven entrepreneurs.
What’s up everyone,
Since my childhood I have always loved money and I have always wanted to be an…
YES! We can say this proudly ” Indian CEO’s ruling the World “, According to the survey, it has been found that India is progressing at a very rapid pace towards globalization. A number of Indians are seen taking charge as CEO for various…
411 Marketing Awarded the students from the Industrial Management Department at the Technical University in Varna, who participated in a contest in Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovations 2018. The…
What started as an in-house team collaboration tool back in ’10, has now become a household name amongst more than 60,000 teams worldwide. Slack has made inroads into our working lives at a meteoric rate. So much so…
Are you burning things down or building them up? There is a popular “forest fire”…
Selma, I really like what you say with Eckhart’s work, but I find there is one more piece in the puzzle missing.
Who is the “you” that finds the inner space. Awareness disguised as a person discovers the inner space?
Awareness is still chasing the stillness or seeing the noise for what it is. That’s…
Below is a list of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning start ups launched…
In boxing there’s a common saying that ‘styles make fights’. If i’m being honest, I know…
This question has been on my mind for a while. Would anyone out there, except for those few…
This past month I’ve been putting a lot of my attention on Blocks Edit on the sales process. Just how marketing is a way to present ideas, sales is essentially trading those ideas with each other and goes hand in hand with marketing.
Behind every successful brand is a passionate, determined, and successful entrepreneur who has wholly invested…
There are things in nature that can harm you if you do not take care to see differences in characteristics. The snakes above are examples of this. The Coral Snake is deadly, but the King Scarlet Snake is not.
Building entrepreneurial ecosystems is a hot topic these days. Everybody seems to be looking for the secret ingredient for doing this successfully, but I’m afraid nobody will find it. Or maybe the answer is very simple, namely…
I recently met with a friend, a former work colleague. “Paul”. He had a tremendous talent for aligning creativity with analytics. Fantastic track record, fun to work with. Always fun to be around — until today. It was in a moment of truth, when Paul started reflecting on his journey…
Once upon a time i felt a urge, an itch, an insatiable thirst to create and express myself, i needed to output the world’s input on me. I was consuming too much information and i just had to produce.
Start-up state of mind — 6 learnings in 6 months
Six months ago, I left my corporate job to venture out on my own. It has been equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking. Reflecting on the journey, I’ve quite a few learnings. Here are my top 6 (and for anyone thinking about doing the same, I hope they inspire you!).
Today’s challenge is to actually start writing. I have had an amazing day. Depending on the timezone it is my second day of…
I love these ideas. I’m still working on being consistent with my schedule, I know it is the key to get more writing done. If only I can treat my two hours of writing after work as a part-time gig that’s paying me well. That would be a life changer.
How come business owners never talk about profitability?
Ok, that is an exaggeration, but why don’t business owners talk about making a profit more?
This was great, Steve. Entrepreneurs are the ones who really make things happen even if they may not be the smartest ones in the room. But they know how to hustle and how to build intelligent and supportive teams. In our cohorts, we’ve seen CEOs who may not necessarily have the most technical background, but aren’t afraid to learn and have the…
As an entrepreneur, freelancer or founder, you wear many hats and are responsible for everything, from the…
Introduction In a previous blog post (under the Status Quo heading) I summarised the process most founders take from ideation to capital raising. To expand on what I wrote in…
Nadine, love what you wrote here, “Due to sexist viewpoints of many brilliant thinkers, I believe they had flaws and were not as wise as the awed reader may imagine them to be. However, I set the example for many females in society — to have our voices heard and our intellection spilling out, to further investigate life and the circle of Truth”.
Jeff (fist bump) you said this oh so well. What valuable reminder you’ve blessed us with today.
Society is the field where we put ourselves to the test… We’re suckers for believing everything we’re told. But society and our diverse cultures sometimes point us in the wrong directions. Like when we’re told there’s shame in…
Leadership is a pivotal skill in every successful person, project, business, or other venture. If only it were as simple as taking a course, let’s call it “Leadership 101,” and becoming an expert automatically. Life doesn’t work that way, and like any…
With 17 years of strategic brand and marketing experience, Stephanie O’Dear managed a team of 12 staff members at JP Morgan responsible for delivering strategic communications and education for their clients. As an MBA…
Being a technically adept, creative professional has been at the top of my list of accomplishments since I started working. I want to be good at everything and push myself hard when it comes to being on top of everything at work and at home. The problem with being this sort of…
The great thing of being an entrepreneur for one person could be the downfall of being it for another. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that with the way our society is today is drastically different from what it was 5 years. Each year there are different trends in America…
Love this command! “Now, if there’s something you want in life, ask yourself the question of what it will take to get it and go out and find the answer”
I know I have said it before. But I love your wisdom. It is a powerful message to ponder how to shorten our learning curve in any area.
Thanks Reece
If you work hard to do and be your best, sometimes criticism can be a tough pill to swallow. Some let it roll right off their back; others aren’t so resilient. There’s a right and wrong way to handle it.
Whenever I search on Youtube for something related to business I will most likely stumble upon a video of Gary. Something we wanted to point out, is his outstanding capability to drive attention to himself and his businesses. This is how Gary leverages video.
The United States is home to beautiful mountain ranges of all types. Below are some of the best examples, along with the seasons that display them to their best advantage.
You probably get this a lot already, but looks like you saw starting a business as a panacea to big company ills. What you really wanted was a simple remote job (like the consulting business that you have now) as opposed to a full-blown product startup. I’m not even in your stage of life or as good enough to have graduated from a top business school…
I was recently listening to some tween hip hop as I like to mix my music up I came across a song by a rapper named Meek Mill the songs name is levels (please be warned that this is rap and not gospel so expect explicit content) he’s discussion of levels within the rap game…
It’s a precarious balance to strike: work life vs. home life. On one end of the spectrum you’ll find the “professional” who doesn’t know when to turn off the fun and focus on work. But on the opposite side is the…
Founder of Digital Currensy, Inc., Adrian Smith, was interviewed for an article…
For over an year now I have been thinking, dreaming and researching about this company I want to build. But I wonder why? Why is this…
Lets’ define cash in a scientific way. If we take the company as a human body then cash is the blood. Then why blood, because it’s the most needed thing same as oxygen. A human can’t survive without blood and oxygen and…
Each semester we take different courses kind of knowing what to expect, but also curious to find out what we will be discussing during the semester. One of the things I learned this semester was that, becoming a entrepreneur would be very difficult for myself in the future. I took an entrepreneur…
I think this also comes from a culture of well-intentioned fear that can come about, especially in organizations seen as being directly beholden to the public. It is perceived that it is easier to not take a chance on an innovation because it is unproven or baby step into it once some other, similar organizations have given it a try, and call that…
When you launched your startup years ago, you might’ve never thought it could grow to the levels it has. That’s a good problem to have, since you’re in the elite company of those who have “made it” when so many others failed. Problem is, you may not have…
