Entrepreneurship

Exactly How to Start an Ecommerce Business in 3 Weeks: Step-by-Step

I Can Teach You How to Spot a Narcissist With This One Question

Navigating The Messy Middle

I’m excited and super-f’n-anxious to share a 5+ year obsession/project…

From SaaS Idea to Launch In a Week (An Epic Guide Post)

And getting paid in the first 24 hours— without a launch list.

Nine qualities of effective feedback

How to give feedback that actually helps people

I Have 2x More Revenue Than Them! Why Can’t I Close My Round?

Pushing Back Against Shame and Failure

(Including a story about Dungeons & Dragons)

Zack Honarvar: Dot Connecting at Yes Theory

While most might be content with a high-paying job at one of Canada’s…

“I AM LEOPARD BOY…”

I did not want to post about this. This has been a hidden secret of mine for the last 8 years, but something told me when I…

Get a Free Ivy League Education Right Now

Ivy league schools like Harvard and Yale are the holy grail for young, idealistic…

5 Things Most Don’t Expect When Building a Business

What’s success without failure?

Success is not something that comes for granted or is inherited from someone. It is not something that…

Make the Most of the Opportunities in Front of You.

Develop Your Personal Plan for Tech.

Ryan Hoover Talks All Things Product Hunt, Life, & Entrepreneurship

15 (more) things I learned at Stanford the year I set out to change my life

The Problem with a Comfortable Career

A framework for assesssing and re-evaluating things when your…

Dropbox Co-Founder & CEO / Drew Houston 氏による「東京大学アントレプレナー道場 2018 特別編」

この度、個人的なつながりから Dropbox の共同創業者兼 CEO である Drew Houston を東京大学に迎えて、東京大学アントレプレナー道場 特別編を 6/4 (月) 9:55–11:40 にて開催することになりました。

No Thanks, I Don’t Want The Lottery Prize

I Already Picked The Right Numbers

The 2 Kinds Of Questions Small Business Owners Ask (1 Creates More Work For You)

There's more to…

Why is customer acquisition a wrong metric for measuring Growth ?

Learn what's the most important…

New Zealand is turning the world upside down and you should know about it

What do you think when the name…

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal [Book Summary]

Community Spotlight: Nicholas Himowicz

In the first of a series of interviews with community members, I caught up with Nicholas Himowicz, a coach and solopreneur from London. We talk about his inspirations, motivations and rituals, as well as Ashram and Alptitude, where we met Nicholas for the first…

How to drive your startup into the ground without knowing it

Interview: Rebecca Foerster

Building “Branding” into Creative Education

The Kindness of Strangers

I was 28 when I quit my full time job to be a stay-at-home-Mom. I was supposed to go back to work after I gave…

How Azlo is redefining what banking can do for your business

What It REALLY Takes To Build a 6–7 Figure Business

Venture Capital: The Rocket Fuel of the Startup World

Some founders hugely benefit from raising venture capital, others do far better without. What’s right for you?

The bottom fell out . . .an outside day.

The early inter-day lows did not hold and down we went. The decline was orderly with little panic which bodes well for an accelerating down move but probably not now. . .because we had an outside day closing lower.

Master P’s NET WORTH:$250 MILLION

Age:48

Born:April 29, 1970

Celebrating a Decade of Romulus: 2018 Annual Summit in Rome

Depending on context, ten years can be…

Why founder of Toulouse’s Ekito is stepping away, and what he really thinks about startup accelerators

Yeah, but what if it works?

Fear and self-doubt are going to strike every time you get out of your comfort zone and take big risks. But if…

162. Creators, Cultivators and Caregivers: Three different types of Event Manager

Fishing for success: The fish kiosk entrepreneurs of Tamil Nadu

By Karthik Laxman

Why you should compare apples and oranges

Many idioms in English have flummoxed me since I started learning the language in…

Mary Lou Song: A Silicon Valley entrepreneur on startups, Medill and media innovation

Medill alumni in media innovation: One of a series

+1 Entrepreneur Interview: Own Your Success

+1 Entrepreneur Interviews celebrate Fort Wayne area entrepreneurs who deserve an upvote. This post celebrates Own Your Success, a non profit that supports women who own businesses.

When failure sometimes means success on the startup journey

My yet to be titled autobiography of a successful feminist entrepreneur

How to Keep Your Creativity Alive When Life Crowds It Out

5 ways you can push back now

Living in Fear to Find Success

Three years ago I walked down my driveway to get the mail. We had recently moved to an affluent area…

How Being Vulnerable Helps You Build a Loyal Following

The secret sauce of writing that resonates

Your Startup Is Unable to Raise A New Round — What To Do?

FrenchTech and FrenchTouch (english version). Conversation with BeautyTech entrepreneurs in Paris

10 Ways to Become a Better Leader

Whoever said, “Traveling is beautiful but not as beautiful as coming home,” clearly wasn’t an out of…

One Plus One Equals Fun: How AI is Adding Up to Personalized Learning

The Upside of Failure

I’m seeking a bit of catharsis.

WANT TO WORK AT HOME? EBAY SELLING FOR REAL WORLD PEOPLE.

A comprehensive real-life work at home guide to paying your bills by selling other people’s junk on eBay.

Life Isn’t Linear

Walking away from Wall Street was something I had to do to find happiness in my life. That kind of lifestyle wasn’t how I…

Stop Showing Me Success Stories

“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up.”

Off the cuff: Q&A with Gaëlle Koutou

Tech girl and expert at GROW Labs Entrepreneurial Sessions

How to build a cathedral. A metaphor

We ‘modern’ humans are not very good at long term anything. Show me anyone anywhere who thinks…

Early Stage Entrepreneurs — Beware the Message You Convey

The full circle of work

In an organization I have recently worked with I see a lack of WHY and HOW stuff gets done. It has to do with lack of agreement in and between teams. WHAT on the other hand there is an obsession.

How to Eat the Big Idea in Your Life? One Bite at a Time

There’s an African proverb that says “How do…

Vitargent — a biotech start-up aims to turn a new page of food safety in china

Why I’m Prioritizing Relationships in my Business

4 Lessons Learned About Picking An Investment Banker

The Price is Right! Predictive Analytics and Productive Solutions

Ando se suma a la tendencia europea: las cargo-bikes

Startup Kryptonite

I’ve heard every form of self-delusion known by talking with entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs, I am damn sure one of those…

How Open Hiring Spreads

On a sleepy, dreary Saturday morning sans coffee, I got a wake up call from an inspiring man in New York, Dion Drew.

Time to Double Down Your Entrepreneurial Venture

If you can’t go All In, Better Go Home

5 Reasons Why Midwestern Startups Fail

The Midwest: the Heartland, the Bible Belt, Flyover Country, etc. Known by many names and…

How Over-Worked Professionals Can Still Thrive Socially

省靚您個塔羅占卜生招牌

招牌，第一件事包括店面名字和視覺效果，換言之就是商標(logo)及品牌身份，延伸出一系列的包裝方式、廣告與行銷手法等等。

What Drives Us?

What are we essentially driven by? Fear? Anger? Revenge? Or Dreams?

Recalling the Early Days of Pitch, Inside Casa de Crypto

PITCH INVESTORS LIVE team member and writer Alice Hlidkova traveled to Weston, Florida to report on…

The Entrepreneur Of His Own Life “My Dad”

As many of you know, May is National Military Appreciation Month honoring the current…

What you need to do now to sell your business in 5 years

Yes, thank you! I’ve been preaching forever how a portfolio is not that important, and especially not when you’re talking to clients and selling yourself. Confidence and relationship building is so much more important!

In fact, I think the thing that holds most people back from getting out and starting their business and…

Distractions vs. opportunities

We live in a time where pretty much every distraction turns into an opportunity.

An opportunity that will get you to where you want to be.

A lot faster than the old one.

L’AfricaTech à l’honneur à VivaTech

La troisième édition de Viva Technology, rendez-vous mondial de la Tech organisé par Publicis et Les Echos, s’est tenue du 24 au 26 mai 2018 à Paris. Les statistiques de cette édition sont inédites : plus de 100 000 visiteurs, plus de 9000 startups présentes ou…

While I don’t mean to rain on your parade, I had a couple of questions about this article

1. Despite hating on motivational quotes and and articles on medium that show you how to live your life, aren’t you, through this article, doing the exact same thing?
2. The sole purpose of motivational quotes and…

Turning Off The Autopilot: Week One of Satellite Bootcamp

Have you ever looked at the time and thought to yourself, what happened today?

This happens to me more often than I’d like to admit. It could be 11:45 am one second and 5:07 pm the next. And the worst…

What Successful Business People Do Daily

1 degree shift — Are your daily habits shifting you dramatically off track or taking you closer to becoming more successful in life and business?

Take some time this week to sit down and think about how you lead your life.

Keep Your Options Closed

How optionality’s seductive power can limit our freedom

Using Acceptance Criteria for Decision Making

In my last post we walked through my ideating process and we left off with a…

Solo

Solopreneur: just me and the robots

How to Create a US LLC as a NON-US Resident

The World is Getting Smaller

Muuve

Connecting people through music…

Learn How to Build A Multi-Million Dollar Company

The ultimate recipe to have the impeccable work ethic you need to succeed

The Changemakers Accelerating African Fintech

A host of African changemakers are reinventing fintech with the aspiration of building a single digital market across the continent.

Future of Entrepreneurship - One without Startups

An entrepreneur is a personality. Entrepreneurship…

Get ready for the future

We can’t stop or prevent innovation or disruption, but we can change and adapt with time. We can be superior to what we do. I believe that our future is bright and work will continue to evolve. Human progress is inevitable which is impossible without change. The future is uncertain…

Your blindspots are holding you back

A couple of weeks ago my wife told me that I was being sharp. I was disconnected and I did not…

Startup Growing Pains: 3 Tales of Disappearing Cash — And How We Fixed It for Scalable Growth

Three Misconception of Success

Is Success a destination, or a journey, or something else?

The Impact of So-called Socialism on Global Social Exclusion

How Breaking Down Your Competition Hurts Your Credibility

Top 5 Ways to Increase your Work Productivity as an Entrepreneur

Caneka Hardon Provides Women With Simple And Effective Business Building Tools And Systems

Caneka Hardon is a woman who understands being busy. She’s a wife, mother of two, professional, entrepreneur, author, and advocate for women. She is the designer and creator…

Africa: We Fought Darkness With Imagination

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The…

How to Make the Best of the Worst Decisions in a Startup: Real-Life Examples and Strategies

Introduction:

Entrepreneurship is a challenging and risky endeavor. While there are numerous resources available to founders of startups…

The Real Price of Doing What You Love

“Life is too long to work a job you hate.” “Life is too long to work a job you don’t care about.” Advice I give on a regular basis (here on my blog and elsewhere). I think, however, that many people attach an image of “happily ever after” to landing their Dream…

Afore Mentioned — April Newsletter

Afore Capital’s April newsletter featuring the inaugural Pre-Seed Summit, portfolio profiles, news…

Finally learning to fail properly

There is a boring refrain of business: fail fast etc. But that…

Crash Course On Failing

There are two things that I actively advocate: failing and being yourself. Today I’ll tackle the former. A lesson…

Should I break up with my startup?

The relationship between a founder and their startup in the first couple years is analogous to a romantic relationship. Let me walk you through it.

The Honeymoon Phase

The Personal MBA — My review of Josh Kaufman’s book

“Mega Project 2nd Blog”

Some specific things happen in life and influence us a lot. Similar happened about this Mega Project. We were supposed to do some social work on our behalf which could positively effect people. We decided to work for women. We decided to work on some ideas through which women can take…

A good combination is to (1) think about the worst case scenario and(2) make reversible decisions. It’d be extremely helpful to (3) consider the potential upsides after #1 and #2.

For example I was planning to move into a new apartment two months ago.

1. Worst case scenario: (1) what if I don’t like it…

Entrepreneur’s Journey: Inside the Brilliant Mind of Simon Sinek

Wanted: InterContinental Hanoi Landmark72

Venue Highlight of the Week

Why I can’t make my mind up about bullet journalling