Entrepreneurship

Stock Options — Why It’s Time for Startups to Replace Them.

The technology half-life is incredibly short, yet stock options have remained a central compensation model for startups long past true usefulness. It’s time to dump them, we can do better.

How to Sell Your Startup for a Big Payout

Rare lessons for entrepreneurs on how to negotiate, when to involve lawyers, and what happens after acquisition

How 12 Immigrant Entrepreneurs Have Made America Great

You Will Never Finish Your Damn To-Do List.

A More Realistic Approach To Getting Things Done

The Culture of Work in Nigeria

Do you love your job or are you just afraid of being unemployed?

Over the last 5 years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a few startup tech companies in Nigeria and consult for a couple other businesses and i’ve observed that there is a terrible…

Why You Should Give Up On Your “Dream Job”

It’s infiltrated every career-, success-, money-, or happiness-related blog in…

Operations and Supply Chain Management

How do you make and deliver things in the most cost effective and efficient ways and also maintains the highest quality?

5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a President at Godiva Chocolatier

“I would like to…

Product Design by Google — Part 2

UX & UI

5 Ways to Mentor Your Team… the Right Way

Business sustainability happens with the proper culture and mentorship in place. But…

6 Content Marketing Commandments: How To Be Successful Without Losing Your Sanity

CEOs, entrepreneurs, and coaches — this is for you.

Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment

The Art of Success

Steve Jobs changed the way we communicated. The Wright brothers changed the way we…

A hopeless romantic… and a hopeful VC

‘How valuable is your MBA?’ — I get asked very often. Interestingly enough, I still don’t…

Living like a millionaire — without spending a million!

“Don’t buy that $300 bag to have nothing in it, buy that $20 bag and have $280 in it. Don’t go broke trying to look rich.” Warren Buffett

What and where is the Shadow Web?

Yes, we know about the dark web, that hub of illegal (and legal) activity, but what and where is the…

How to Deal With A Dreaded FATCA Letter From Your Foreign Bank

Have accounts overseas? Think they’re hidden from the U.S. government? Think again.

As many Americans with foreign bank accounts are startled to discover, the U.S. government can and will find…

What do YOU want for YOUR child?

Health … Success … Financial Independence

Politics in the UK have swayed to and fro with regards to Brexit. It would be improbable that such currents will not affect the education sector, for which the UK is world renowned. With students from all…

The First Holloway Guide

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.” — Herman Melville

How to Write a Dynamite Pitch For Your Guest Post

Get your words in front of thousands at lightning speed

Confronting the worst time of your life? Deal with it positively

The power of optimistic thinking is…

Money Can’t Buy Knives

Most technology startups involve some amount of engineering risk. Can we build it at scale? Can we build it for $X by our launch date? Can we refine the product to be attractive before we run out of money? There is a ton of material from the lean/agile world on how to approach these…

How Working Less = Better Work, More Success, and a Better Life

The hustle is not the answer

How I Entrepreneur: Mornings

by Jenny Lawton, COO at Techstars

Updates on the Founders program & Fellowship! Some changes to note at STATION F

How To Embrace The Plutonian Lifestyle

For a Plutonian, such as Myself, there is no such thing as tempered pain. There is soul…

This 1 Quality Will Help You Out-Perform Everybody Else

How Maple Holistics Is Working Towards An Eco-Friendly World

The Top 3 Ways to Support Early Stage Entrepreneurs

This is a guest post by Stephanie Dodson and…

How to Build a Network from Scratch

Even if you hate, you know, networking

Lonely in a crowded place.

An open letter to myself.

Diseñar tu negocio con UX — Entrevista a César Salazar

10 Questions with Prem Q. Nair, ‘18

More about Prem: I graduated from Princeton in 2018 with a degree in CS. Growing up in the SF South Bay, I’ve been surrounded by tech and entrepreneurship from a young age, and although for a long time I wanted to be a scientist, I started writing some serious code…

Putting the “Venture” into VC

81% of the population saw only 37% of total seed funding in H1 2018. Can…

How To Remove Ego, Find Your True Motivation And Win As A Team

PreSeries #AngelRanking — Top 5 Angel Investors In France

Angels investors are on the front-line of innovation, trusting teams in their early days, evaluating alpha-prototypes, and backing unproven ideas before everyone else. They end up writing virtually every startup’s first cheque…

Founding a Successful Startup with Stephanie Hurlburt

All-in on Moving and Starting a Tech Company in Sacramento

Anyone who knows me well knows that it’s always been a goal of mine to move back to Sacramento. I spent my formative years in Sacramento and I really feel like I owe a lot of who I am today to the community. I have countless…

Best practices for start-ups

Our team was recently going through the quarterly ritual of reaching out to our portfolio companies. Every…

Why a Company Pledge Feels More Authentic than Company Values for My Startup

Kopi Chat with Professor Jiang Changjian: New Generation of Media and Social Trends

Seriously, Why Isn’t Your Brand Differentiation Working?

It’s time to claim your spot on the world’s…

Angela Mader Shares Leadership Strategies To Improve Your Company’s Culture

Davide De Guz Shares Leadership Strategies To Improve Your Company’s Culture

Failing To Move Your Startup Forwards? This Story Is For You . [3/12]

How To Build a Powerful Marketing Automation System For Your Coaching Business

Different Sector, Same Problem: Tackling Wicked Problems through the Public vs. Private Sector

by Katherine Trout

My Top 5 Productivity Secrets

I am constantly working on becoming my best version. Thus I am trying out many tips and ways on optimizing…

Why imperfect is more beautiful than perfect

I’m a recovering perfectionist.

4 Secrets to Turning Freelance Clients into Repeat Customers

The answer to your client-hunting woes may be lurking in your archive folders

Dont Bequeath Poverty To Your Children

Even if you are poor, occasionally take your children to classy hotels, and nice malls, the cinema or just some fun hang outs. Expose them to the rich so they don’t have poverty mentality. Even if your parents didn’t do it for you, break the cycle and do it for them. If you are poor…

Membangun Bisnis Rental yang Berjalan Sendiri

Setelah 4 tahun bekerja setiap hari mengembangkan Babyloania, saya memutuskan untuk melakukan percobaan terberat yang pernah saya lakukan sebagai seorang founder/CEO: cuti libur selama 3 minggu.

Kenapa percobaan ini…

7 Actionable Ways to Turn Stress into Success

Stress is obviously something we’re all trying to avoid, but just because it’s…

Girişimciye Dönüş

On yıllık kurumsal deneyimlerim boyunca pazarlama ve inovasyon departmanlarında çalıştım. En fazla öğrenim kazandığım…

How to Improve Your App Team’s Collaboration with a Single Tool

How I Channeled My Fear and Anxiety To Get My First Ghostwriting Job

Why standing on the edge is terrifying, but the rewards can be…

Will Bartholomew Shares Leadership Strategies To Improve Your Company’s Culture

Meet the Inventor

We are excited to introduce you to our inventor, Dan Swiss. Dan has always been a problem solver, which is why the creation of…

Optimizing Manufacturing Operations

From the Whiz Kids to Six Sigma

Elon from Tony Stark to Harvey Dent…

Today we are witnessing how brands and their creators merge into one, and sometimes it is…

Are routines hurting you?

I find myself sticking to routines at times, mainly when I am “coupled”. I remember living with my three boys and…

The Secret Power of Cash Flow

If you are already running a business, you understand the importance of cash flow. If you want to establish…

Why did I need so much time to share my YLAI experience?

Car keys and paperclips: thoughts on lynchpins

Free: I’ve lost my luggage!

The secret to finding balance and happiness in life

What Can Businesses Learn From Cults?

On March 19th and 20th, 1997, 39 people drank a mixture of apple sauce, vodka and lethal…

Failure Equals Growth.

One day, I had a realisation. A very important realisation about failure and the role it plays in our lives. I realised…

10 African Startups selected as finalists of the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

«Бесстрашный предприниматель» — это миф: почему не обязательно рисковать, чтобы построить успешный бизнес

3 Tips to Starting Out as a Freelance Writer

The Good News is You Can Make Money from Freelance…

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

As a runner, is there anything more motivating than when another runner appears on the horizon? Being the…

How to Have the Upper-Hand During a Business Negotiation.

Shortest Post on the Biggest Thing Holding Back Your Success

Short, concise, scary, and ball busting. Can you handle it?

Flipping On My Perspectives | Why I Started Writing

A Few Things VCs and Investors Want You to Know, But Won’t Tell You

The Hurry Up and Wait Syndrome

Oh it’s been ages since I wrote anything. And it’s for no good reason, except that we moved countries, I…

“When Your Team Leaves Each Day Knowing That They Made A Difference, Your Company Will Be Fueled By Purpose”

BEFORE YOU FREELANCE…

Five things to consider before taking the leap into independent contracting

WHO WE ARE

The KuBitX team is composed of an extremely talented and experienced bunch of professionals with significant work experience from Fortune 500 companies and “Big Four” consultancy firms. Having gained substantial insights and expertise in our respective domains, it was natural for us to work in the…

The Truth About Your Excuses

They’re bullshit. The end.

Wait a second… were you hoping for more? Were you hoping that I’d come up with some beautiful words that would help you? That would make you feel all warm and fuzzy? That would let you know that it’s somehow okay to make…

Plan + Organize + Lead + Control: A $30,000 College Course in Five Minutes (for free)

Measuring Success

Have you ever had a conversation with someone who can’t answer the question “what does success look like to you?”

I have. It’s a frequent one for me.

Look, innovation can be nebulous and vague sometimes. I mean experiments sometimes are vague —…

2 Panther Creek High School Seniors Run a Thriving Web Company

Aditya Bhujle and Michael Su of Panther Creek High’s Class of 2019 continue working on creating new projects to add to their already impressive web company.

7 Ways to Get Fit as a Busy Professional

As a busy working professional, you may find it easy to rock 10+ hour work days in pursuit of your ambitious career goals; making it to the gym for an hour is another story.

5 Things Successful Business Owners DON’T Do

Call me contrary, but I thought that if I was going to do a list blog I’d do it…

3 Ways Women can Turn their Fear of Failure into Fearless Action

3 Ways to Monetize Your Blog

3 Ways to Monetize Your Blog

6 Must Follow Rules to Improve Your Cash Flow

As any business owner will tell you, cash makes everything tick. However, many…

What launching a personal blog cost my well-being

How blogging stole my joy and why I called it quits

I deleted my blog because it stole my joy.

“How in the world did we get here?” I asked…

Siga estos pasos y aumente su productividad — Raul Vittor Alfaro

Communicating your genius

I used to make videos and short films during my undergrad. Of all the responsibilities I had to take on when…

We’ve Analyzed 20+ ICO Pitches, and Here’s What We’ve Learned

Pitching an ICO, as well as delivering any other spiel, is something that puts even experienced executives and marketing managers under the gun. No wonder: when participating in a pitching contest, you have a severely…

How will the Autonomous Vehicle economy play out?

BARBERSHOPS: A TREND THAT WILL NOT FADE AWAY

There’s no denying the popularity of barber shops has skyrocketed over the last few years. In fact, the cultural resurgence of men getting professionally coiffed is expected to become a $26 billion industry by the year 2020. And with numbers like that…

3 Keys to Successfully Hiring Your First Head of Human Resources

As a company grows from having a founder (or founders), to hiring its first employees, then…

You have to think your rationale comes from the culture YOU are a product of. A lot of people are pleased to hear this, but mostly because it makes their current lives feel meaningful and that they are doing the right thing. It’s however a white shallow line of thought. It simply takes what the current culture demands and transforms it into the…

Come With Me On a Walk Down My Corridor of Sales

The Key to Overnight Success is…

America has an obsession with the overnight Entrepreneur. We look up, and images of Elon Musk…

The Fight Between Preservation of Traditions and Growth and Sustainability

Today’s tech industry is brutal — there are a lot of companies battling for consumer appeal and every business has to be on the top of their game to deliver the best products possible.

Myths & Tips About Entrepreneurship — Her Money Mind

Today’s post is inspired by Kathy Caprino’s…

A rough start

How we got to where we are now…

Not everyone..

Not everyone has to be the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Not everyone has to send people to the moon.

Not everyone has to become a doctor.

Or a consultant.

Nothing goes waste, you will get back sooner or later

In today’s world everyone is so calculative and wants to spend each minute only if there’s a benefit out of it. We all are so busy in doing nothing or everything that we don’t realize what we must have gained and the value of time spent…