Entrepreneurship

Darius Foroux on making time for useful work

A series of interesting conversations with interesting people by Pocket

Darius Foroux doesn’t like to be busy, but he sure gets a lot done. How does he do it? With a time management technique he read about in college that he…

Can I Play Music on My Podcast?

Since the emergence of podcasts as an entertainment medium, the format has grown from obscurity to dominance in just a few short years. The podcast format gives just about anyone the ability to put out content in long form conversations, allowing audiences to enjoy their…

7 Tips to Successfully Micromanage Programmers

Since most programmers only want to write code, and don’t care about what…

It’s Never Too Late To Get Started.

I was 28 before I ever published a blog post. I didn’t drink my first cocktail until I was well…

How To Fix a Broken Team

Using Trust to Unlock High-Performance

The Underground Caribbean Bitcoin World: Interview With Shadow Man

You are not your goals

And other things learnt whilst running

If You Think You’re Not Creative, You’re Right

Why We Need to Teach Entrepreneurs Blue Ocean Strategy

Staying relevant in industries that are constantly on the brink of disruption

7 Steps To Assess Your Competition — Market Viability

Never apologize for who you are

You're wasting your life if you're not living it on your own terms…

In-Depth Tips to Outsmarting an Annoying Control Freak

We all know one.

Why I’m Done With Guest Posting

I can only describe it as rage. Pure, unadulterated rage.

Tom Blomfield, founder, Monzo

Tom Blomfield founded British neobank Monzo three years ago. What started as a prepaid card has blossomed…

On Being Conned: It Feels So Good for Awhile

It’s not easy to admit I was just conned. Much of my self-esteem is wrapped up in…

One man’s dream is another man’s nightmare.

I have a roof over my head. Clothes on my body. Family and friends. A steady income…

How Pastel found its first 25 customers

We have been working on Pastel for a little more than a year now and I wanted to reflect on some of the early ways we got in front of our first few customers.

5 Challenges Crypto Projects Face (And How to Fix Them With Programmable Securities)

5 steps for learning VC: a tried-and-true guide + resources

CEO TO Inmate: 28 Hours in Jail, One Single Mom’s Journey to Mental Freedom

Veri Analitik Servislerimiz için 1M TL Yatırım!

Heyecan ve neşeyle paylaşmak isteriz ki; StartersHub, 500 Startups ve Uğur Şeker‘den 1 Milyon TL‘lik yatırımla, post-seed turumuzu kapattık. Anlatmak için…

Raising as much as you can is a trap, NOT a strategy

There seems to a growing trend of founders being counseled to raise as much as they can in every round. Interestingly, the counsel is coming from VCs and Accelerators — people in the founder’s trust circle. Obviously, only a small fraction of all VCs and Accelerators think…

3 Ways Guest Posting Can Immediately Grow Your Online Audience

On relationships, search engines, and…

How to DISRUPT Any Industry: A Simple Matrix to Find Hidden Opportunities

These Two Professionals Lived on 39 Cents a Day, and Here’s What You Can Learn from Their Experience

How To Enjoy The Journey To Your Dreams and Goals

How To Inspire Young Entrepreneurs, And Maybe Even Make The World A Better Place

Assertiveness Is Not What You Do It’s WhoYou Are!

Why learning to be more assertive is necessary.

There Are Two Types of People

Which One Are You?

“A Real Professional Is Someone Who Independently Understands Their Tasks And Duties” With David Weisman

How I am Able to Run 12 Businesses at the Same Time

Delivering timeless beauty to the world: Boite de Luxe and Mandana Yusupova

Mandana Yusupova is a…

Accuracy vs Speed in Financial Reporting

Five days. 15 days. 30 days. 2 months. 1 year. The numbers are all over the charts. I’ve…

60 Things I Know To Be True Since Starting My Business

What is UX Analytics? (Part 1)

What would happen if you stopped listening to anybody's feedback?

Real talk: startups are hotbeds for poor communication

Startups are roller coasters…

Startups are marathons….

Startups are pressure cookers…

Joint Economic Committee Hearing on The Promise of Opportunity Zones

Joy Is the Experience of Unconditional LOVE Expressed

Say “yes” to life, and watch your joy expand

Here’s what happens when you say f* it.

Look, I was the excuse-generator, a lean mean flake machine — I admit it. Eventually I had to dig into the psychological archives to understand why and where that journey took me. Here’s what happens when I just say fuck it and stopped allowing my fears…

A Sales Lesson I Learned The Hard Way

I felt instantly sick when reading the email from my boss on an unassuming Wednesday…

Lessons From Kai Bond: Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

Unapologetically, shamelessly Idea-otic

Sometime back when I was working as a part of IBM research, a good friend came to me and told me about the idea of making a comic with a noble cause of providing our hardworking geek intellectual peers with small doses of entertainment. He knew I had a…

7 Steps to Design a Life (and Business) That Makes you Happy

How did she do it? A Q&A with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, founder and chairman of theBoardlist

Why we need to stop talking about growth… (and what to do instead)

#boyboss

Not really a thing. Surprised? Me neither.

Let’s Stop Raising Soft Children

Breed Hustlers and Creatives

VC Capital in MENA and Lebanon : Learnings from the Middle East Investment Summit

How Gen Z Can and Should Combat the Status Quo

Elon Musk: Mr. Engineer

Background

Before I write much about Elon Musk: Mr. Engineer lemme give y’all a background…

This is Where You Should Invest Your Money

Not in a House or a Lamborghini

A Tough Decision That I Had To Make

Avoiding It Was Not An Option

Bootstrapping in Bali — Pivot 1

When I moved to Bali to work on my business, I wanted to believe that my initial idea was perfect and…

The road to a successful eHealth startup

The word “startup” is in widely used often with a different definition. Eric Ries gave an interesting definition in The Lean Startup, saying that it is “a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”…

Innovation Democratized

Edited by Joseph Reiben, Managing Partner at Reiben & Velvis, LLP

The Business of Behavior Change — 5 Principles to Follow

The App that Keeps on Giving

In The Process of Making History with New Altcoin

Why Creating MVP app is a good idea

Not enough people discuss project scope. It should be discussed more because scope has a big…

How to write better and faster with the art of deconstruction

5 Ways To Get Maximum Profits As A Startup

stop wasting money and increase your profits

The Pros and Cons of Joining a Coworking Space

Have you considered joining a coworking space? After…

Finding the Love-Work Balance

5 strategies Dilbert would approve

Interview with Sofia Breitholtz, CEO Reach for Change at Sime Conference, Stockholm.

How Exclusivity theory can help you get 200% results?

Why Himalayans need the Naropa Fellowship

The Naropa Fellowship is a development programme for the next generation of leaders and…

ICO Whitepaper Writing: How to Fail

1. Start with a lengthy explanation of the history and concept of Bitcoin. This is of burning…

Startups Grow With People [Book Now Available for Pre-Order]

Great Leaders Make Great Founders

Every now and then, we get inspired by a story that makes us want to share it with the world. It’s…

Dreaming of the real thing with Snurk

Editor’s Note: Komodo’s “10 Questions” series features kids brands and their founders. They…

Tips to Propel Tour Business to New Heights

Are you ready to propel your business to the next level? Well, before that you have…

3 reasons why your Sales sucks

“Everything speaks. Period.”

One Good Find: Elvio’s Chimichurri

Everyday, a great food product made in the U.S.A.

Are you here to play? Or are you here to win?

A winning attitude is a superpower. But a shitty attitude can be cancerous. And…

Reading this will make you a goal achiever.

OR, IN OTHER WORDS, HOW TO STICK WITH YOUR GOALS?

Now is the best time to create solutions for Bharat

Starting a Company? Why Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend

Compound interest is the key to unlock your success

5 Ways To Be Happier Instantly

Happiness is something which you need to find and work hard for. I was 17 when I was diagnosed with lung…

Life owes you nothing

This is not a self-help book. It is not a book for personal development. It is not a book for everyone. Those it is not…

See Into Running a Bakery w/ NotJustCookies

Hustle Gurus is a series of interviews, videos, and podcasts for day-in-the-life…

Recent Articles That Are Influencing My Thoughts on Work

Ego versus confidence — don’t let the former mess with your success

I Existed Before My Children Were Born!

I was having dinner at a restaurant with my 20 year old son, enjoying the one on one…

Overcoming a Failed IPO During the Sub-Prime Meltdown

Show Notes from Episode 1 of The Real Deal…What…

It’s the stuff..

It’s the book you never wrote that takes the longest to write.

Just like it is the song you never sang that takes the longest to sing.

Or that trip you never made.

Laurence McCahill: Finding Your Happy Place as an Entrepreneur (Episode 194)

Profit and Loss (P&L) Management

Having the capacity to successfully deal with your incoming and outgoing money guarantees you have a solid business. To do as such, you require precise financial records. Roll out fundamental improvements to your business through P&L management.

How to stand out in a cluttered market

In 1932, a young carpenter named Ole Kirk Kristiansen was tinkering in his workshop in the…

YKC: Two years on…

YKC. It feels like yesterday when I started this passion project from my Gmail account with 50 emails. Two years out…

5 Quotes From Industry Leaders And What They Mean

We’re sharing nuggets of wisdom from industry greats who have faced their fair share of failure and disappointment. What’s more — we’re breaking them down for you so that you know exactly what they are trying to tell a starry-eyed entrepreneur…

How Joining A Startup Has Been The Best Decision I Have Ever Taken

I remember how working elsewhere, there was a constant fear of committing mistakes and we were not even allowed to make one. By chance…

4 Pieces of Advice for Millennials who Don’t Know What the F**k to do with their Lives

Bouncing Back from Failure

How middle aged people do it!

Digital North Star: A Radical Solution to Common Entrepreneur Challenges.

Great post, Matt — thank you! I very much appreciate this comparison of corporate innovation and both of your key points: (1) deep (and current) customer insights can highlight lead the way to growth opportunities, and (2) innovation as a macro objective can stand in it’s own way. It seems Gibson confused innovation as needing to be technology-led…

Thanks for this post, Tendayi — I appreciate your perspective on corporate innovation and how to set internal innovation units up for success. I’d love to hear more about the “Scale” side of the equation and more specifically how you advise validating the hypotheses implicit in the go-to-market strategy of incubated innovations. From my own…

This point cannot be stressed enough! This reminds me of a situation many years ago when I was CFO of a New York City based enterprise SaaS company for managing digital advertising workflow for publishers. We were in the middle of an already difficult financing round facing a rapidly shrinking addressable market.

On-Demand Economy Bubble is Not Bursting But Evolving