Risks of borrowing – not just money: How startups pay back every bit of debt
When you make the decision to start your own company, you’re taking on much more debt and risk than you realize. And it isn’t all about dollars and cents.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 28, 2023
When you make the decision to start your own company, you’re taking on much more debt and risk than you realize. And it isn’t all about dollars and cents.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 14, 2023
When you’re leading, building or executing, you need to be able to quickly record the ideas and catalysts that don’t come out of a formal brainstorming session. Check out this tool.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 27, 2023
I can’t keep it simple. Ever. I break this cardinal rule of business constantly, without remorse. Read on about how my experiences point to the endgame of brevity to achieve success.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 15, 2023
I don’t think we realize how much investor expectations have ratcheted up over the last several years. In this post, I want to talk about those expectations, why it’s important to understand them, and how to negotiate them.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 16, 2023
What happened to me is a story about business failure, but also about how to turn failure into success. Yes, failure can be a good thing. And while a lot of people talk about learning from failure, they never tell you how to do it. Here’s my story about a failed business deal and how I acted on the lessons I learned.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 9, 2023
Innovation is indeed magic, but it’s not dark magic, it’s definitely necessary magic. It’s not sleight-of-hand, it’s the creative process applied to a known goal. With the right environment and the right process, innovation on demand is not only possible, it can be the secret to your startup’s success.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Sep 11, 2023
You can’t start a business without a lot of money. The question no one ever answers is: How much? So let’s talk about that.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Sep 5, 2023
It doesn’t matter if you’re an entrepreneur sitting on a killer idea that has yet to see the light of day, or you’re chugging along revenue-positive on your way to explosive scale and growth, or you’ve raised eight or nine figures trying to change the way the entire world thinks about X. If you’re not building that solution bridge from both ends, you constantly run the risk of that great, big, killer idea taking your business down along with everyone who believed in that idea and hopped aboard for the ride.
Read MorePosted by WRAL TechWire | Aug 28, 2023
From the moment you flip that mental switch and call yourself an “entrepreneur,” you’ll face doubt, dismissive attitudes, maybe even ridicule. All of this can fester into a stigma that we’ve only recently begun to label as imposter syndrome. So how do you manage this? Well, here’s one idea not to embrace – taking on a cofounder.
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