¿Existe el equipo perfecto? ¿Esa proporción áurea de la startup que garantiza el éxito de un proyecto? Según Rei Inamoto, CTO de AKQA existe. Él define este paradigmático dream team con algo que llamó la teoría del ‘Hipster, Hacker, Hustler’, la cual…
Hi there! You are thinking about launching your first startup but you don’t…
Do you want to overcome your fear of failure? Then don’t just sit back and think about it, go out and conquer it! Tackling your fears will take you places where you could never have imaged before. Imagine how it feels like to do anything…
At the end of April, Amazon released their year-end financials. As is a tradition for them, Jeff Bezos…
A few weeks ago I published a list of 35 Latina founders who had raised more than $1 million in…
Kindness: If you are giving back you’ve already taken too much.
Literary Work Sec 2(o) :- Includes computer program, table, computer data base
Critical mass for startups could be defined as: the smallest group of users that is…
Your journey is always yours alone.
The social media campaign I chose to analyze is Always’ #LikeAGirl Campaign. The purpose of this campaign is to encourage girls everywhere to embrace failure as fuel to build confidence & Keep Going #LikeAGirl.
I wanted to make this blog something relevant, something people can relate to and hopefully derive some value from. So I thought I’d start off addressing the doubt and uncertainty I am having in my personal life.
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In episode 816 of This Week in Startups, Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Social Capital, stops by LAUNCH Incubator to give a talk on productivity. He…
The WhatsApp moment is going to reach most of the traditional industries. In 2009…
Meet IDEA’s new CEO.
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When we draw the distinction between a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a Minimum Useful Demo (MUD), people almost always…
Q: What are Opportunity Zones?
Stealth mode startups are intriguing — but is stealth mode really worth it? Follow this checklist to figure out if your company should be starting in secret.
Training the ability to quickly iterate (and test) and thus increase the speed and amount of learning, might be one of the most powerful levers of success for every entrepreneur.
Some of you might know that I had a brief stint at a bank before we started Gridle. As a Mechanical Engineer whose interaction with a bank had…
When you are independent, entrepreneur or business owner, it means absolute freedom of your time, your decisions, your…
The #smallbusinessweek show continues with a standout indy t-shirt shop owned by Richard Lugo out of Fontana…
Hi! My name is Lander, I’m a self employed software…
Professor of Management Tom Dean at CSU Business School writes about how ‘sustainable venturing’ is a new type of business creation pathway where sustainably-minded entrepreneurs seek to capitalize on…
Monica Freeman, if you want to get paid to write professionally in those areas, it may help to establish some clips and bylines. You can do this by starting a personal blog or by publishing right here on Medium (and you might even get paid if you do!).
What It Takes To Ripen The Fruit of Success
Don’t reveal all your secrets to friends. Keep some to yourself. Many ‘friends’ listen to you so they can get negative information about you and save it for use against you when the time is right. It was the secrets Samson told Delilah that was used to destroy him. And remember, it…
To kick-start our blog series in the run up to Shape Europe 2018, outgoing…
Well, at least mine is.
I’m always fascinated by people who are able to find, and exploit an edge that no one else can see, particularly when that edge is hiding in plain site. For example, billions of people around the world bet on the NBA and the gambling market for that sport is relatively efficient. However…
The most important part of…
Reporting takes time and effort. But — if done right — it can be extremely rewarding and pays off in…
Monica Freeman, I’m glad you found this article. Writing is a hard field to break into, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a great many legitimate opportunities. What kind of writing do you do? Do you have a particular niche you’re trying to break into?
Eben Pagan Opportunity book is a must-read business book for the year. And though it’s a guide to building your own path to professional and financial success, remember that it’s not about getting rich. It’s about living life on your own terms. Business books are great for anyone…
Having grown up watching Star-Trek or Star Wars like me, many of you would be able to relate to what I am about to share here.
“I need money!! I have been working hard on my start up/business for sometime but I can’t see the profit yet!
For those who have friends who are trying to start a business they might have heard this statement a couple of time if it hasn’t…
BEAMS Creative, my start up interior architecture company, took a trip up to Shanghai recently to give…
Entrepreneurship programmes have mushroomed across Africa in recent years. Sometimes it…
I take a different approach to social media which is becoming more mainstream, but this has been my…
After five years of creating interactive digital media content, during which much time was…
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk…In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is…
A new study shows how Twitter bots can be used to spread good messages as well as bad. (And that includes messages about your startup.)
Bots have a bad rep. It seems that whether they’re spreading fake news on Twitter or getting you…
I remember the first time I had to do an oral presentation in high school. I was scared…
‘Entrepreneur’ the latest buzz word. Even ‘my son’ (he’s actually my younger brother, the last of three children all boys), Divine, uses the word most times. He’s only 11years old and most times I think of myself…
La mentoría implica enseñar a otra persona a través de una relación uno a uno. Es una práctica…
I read a thoughtful article yesterday that made me look back on my relationship with the written word.
It’s one I cherish deeply.
What makes great new businesses vary from extraordinary can be the hiring procedure…
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This is imprisonment, 5yrs of my life to be dedicated to UNILAG. I looked at my age, I’m 21 and I immediately felt like an overgrown baby. I knew what it was…
As with many things in life, it’s difficult to be great at more than a couple of things at a time.
Entrepreneurs are no different, although the media portrays them otherwise.
It’s welcoming to hear a discussion on the difference between the two. I hope that it works to shed light on the experience of…
The problem when you put yourself, your work and your art out there is that you’ll mostly hear from people who disagree with you.
Well, that’s actually not true.
You’ll never hear from most people at all.
In today’s day and age, it seems that the “fake it till you make it” mentality has reached an all-time high. Young entrepreneurs are encouraged to be loud, celebrate massive funding rounds, take crazy risks, and attach their self-worth…
It is done. I successfully survived 1 full month as a business owner. My expenses have been paid, my contractors have also been paid, I have been paid and my clients are all super chuffed with our work (which is the greatest thing ever).
Over the past months there has been one specific constant topic: Tesla’s burn rate and its need to raise capital by the…
So you want to hire your first employee?
As a full-time business owner and full-time mom, they have more in common than you…
Do you consider yourself to be an entrepreneur? If yes, what kind of entrepreneur are you? Are you a builder, or…
And now we wait. My husband and I interviewed for YC today, a program that helps fund startups.
Europe faces a number of challenges that can be overcome only by an innovative, digitally savvy and…
KidsMBA founder, Professor Mark Watson-Gandy, explains why children need to learn business skills.
Theodore “Ted” Catino leverages decades of entrepreneurial experience as the owner and co-founder of GigSmart. Also the co-founder of the Catino Family Foundation, Ted Catino was recognized for his entrepreneurial success when he…
Remember the first time you jumped to the pool from that big trampoline when you were a kid? It probably still…
It’s easy to scoff at terms nebulous terms such as vision, mission, and values, particularly in the context of tech startups. The technology industry’s tendency to put itself up on a moral pedestal is satirised in a scene from HBO’s Silicon Valley, where every founder ends…
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I had a life-changing event last week, I became a Techstar, and as you might have heard, Techstars is for life.My start-up Shopest and 8 others…
We’ve been misled into leaving our personalities at the door.
It’s no longer enough to be the best at your craft. If you’re not doing the extra…
You can’t beat a project with purpose. So when we heard that IdeaSquares, which helped 25 companies raise almost £10m in 2017, were supporting the 401 Foundation’s…
As an entrepreneur, aspiring to change the world through new paradigms and opportunities untapped, it can be really scary to truly see the speed at which the world moves.
Thanks for the reminders, Ben!
I’m getting on with my daily habits now to achieve as much as can toward my goals.
Maarten, I am with you on this, “We shouldn’t stop fighting, but neither should we hail strife as prerequisite for having a life worth living”.
The discussion of why or why not we think we are enough requires a greater look at what thought tells us.
“Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.” -Scott Adams
Blockchain is a much-talked about technology and many industries are trying to figure out how to best use it. When it comes to blockchain in agriculture, we think our 2018 company Ripe.io is creating a great solution to a big problem!
Continuing my series on little-known and creative killer property strategies, I now have a look at lender finance…
Umair — beautiful piece of analysis and writing. You have put into words something I have felt for a while but have not been able to express. You have expressed it very clearly with the 4 different types of capitalism that you identify. Unfortunately, a lot of politicians depend on the indistinctness between these different types of capitalism —…
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Author’s Note: The following blog is a reflection of my thoughts on the lessons learned in Professor Stephen Daze’s MBA6262 class and in The Lean Startup by Eric Reis. Although the class spanned just two weeks, there were many valuable lessons learned.
Today has been a long day, and unfortunately none of it because of working on the business 😩
I never thought I'd one day call myself a 'Freelancer'. Nope. Throughout my twenty-one years such titles as 'Darth'…
Lochlan, Wow. Exceptional the way you put out these thoughts.
“It may seem that our sense of self is deeply ingrained but science is pretty unequivocal — the evidence shows that in many situations the self is a fiction that we are each continuously rewriting.
4 TIPS FOR RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL TRAINING BUSINESS
After talking to a few personal trainers about my new mastermind starting next month and I’ve started writing for the blog again, this was top of mind today- so I hope it helps any personal trainers out there that are looking to move their business to the next level.
Not all companies have the same success rate. It depends on several factors; market demand, stakeholder experience (internal or external), clarity of the company’s mission and plan, quality of employees, mobilization, adaptability, innovation, money invested…
There are two types of people in the world: those who let their dogs snuggle in bed with them, and those who relegate them to the floor…
Great point. Important to be cautious of not getting stuck in this early stage.
Happens often to startups who claim ‘flexibility’ and being able to ‘pivot’. Really these companies are trying to hide their commitment issues.
Do you want more income in your business? Chances are, you answered, Yes! to that question.
Even though you’re doing all the right things, you may find yourself stalled at a certain income point, or not quite reaching your money…
I never thought that I would be writing a column, blog or anything of the sort. I discovered Medium while I was attending an entrepreneur webinar and the presenter suggested using Medium and similar sites to start a following and/or online presence. Essentially, that would be great to do, see the increase of followers; however, I am not doing it for…
If you’ve been following the blog for any length of time you will know by now that I’m a huge fan of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First approach to business finance. If you haven’t already read the book, I highly recommend…
Jack, I like your flash fiction. Seeps into the heart in a magical way. Without you knowing.
“A stray calf bawled for its mother, sending a shiver running the length of his body. He brushed away a tear.
The sound of baby animals made him weepy. He’d always wanted children”.
In this section of the roller coaster ride of the Wright Brothers, we bear witness to Wilbur…
Accountant High Wycombe-Total Tax Business is legislatively endorsed as an appraisal proficient who has specific ability in the field of assessment accumulation and who is empowered by the U.K. Branch of the Treasury to address subjects before each and every definitive level of the IRS…
Due to the mere fact that they have more money and other resources like interpersonal relationships, or opportunities of learning new things to start with!
Certainly people born rich do not have to think that much about money.
Hi, my name is Fiona, and I am an athlete and founder of FitPhenom. I am an elite competitor in running, lifting and OCR, and have won multiple titles. Fitness is not just a hobby to…
Thanks for reading Bere! The “hiring a lawyer” phase seems to be so daunting for entrepreneurs. People either want to save the money, don’t think it’s necessary until it’s an issue, or are just plain intimidated. You and I might not want to do it for a living, but we get how important it is :).
Way to teach your kids entrepreneurship, buying-and-selling, adding value, creating value. Fantastic lessons. Well done.
Great advice! It will always be helpful to have someone successful in your corner. Important to build these relationships sooner rather than later.
When you’re getting ready to start a business, you need to plan, and creating a startup checklist is a great way to do just that.
Edhi sb, is one the great human being of all the times. Who devotes his life for helping other, He is a person with great heart and soul. He tells us the real definition of the humanity.
Edhi Sahib use the Amal principle of progress in his life. He always keep doing great deeds for the Humanity. The Edhi sahib mother always…
What if your dream, your success, could be achieved and sustainable faster than you thought possible? All you had to do was compromise a…
Every business needs to fulfill legal formalities for establishment and operation in the industry. If you are also going to launch a new business in overseas, you will have to be aware of all…
Today’s self-empowering communication to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
WoodSlate’s core value is self-empowerment. WoodSlate was created to serve the upcoming generation of entrepreneurs — those who are not willing to accept the status quo. Because here at WoodSlate, we are not willing to…
Today is a crap day, it is the 2nd of May, and the effort to be cheerful, to see the gold in the rainbow, has eluded me. In all truth, I am wondering if my natural optimism hasn’t served me ill.
I cannot believe the semester is already over! I am proud of myself for making it through this semester. I took 6 classes and worked 18 hours weekly. It was very overwhelming but I did it!
