‘Tis the season when many managers sit down with their employees to “review” how they’ve done over the past year. The other day I learned that my friend’s company has adopted three simple questions for their reviews. Turns out these specific questions are near and dear to me. We call them the birthday questions. My [...]
Category | Small Business Management
Don’t Get Stuck in a Rut – Shake it up
Change is good – Success does not come from just thinking and planning. And especially not ignoring the situations around you. As an owner of a small business you need to put your words to action and get up and do things. This should create better changes in a continuous cycle. Where you will reflect, plan, and preform the action. There is always room for you to better your environment, business, and success. At Lighter Capital we are continually evaluating ourselves and making sure we are stirring up change for our company and audience.
Investor meetings: no whining, suck it up and practice, practice!
We recently had an investor update meeting. I’ve heard skeptical entrepreneurs whine about these, but folks who complain about these have the wrong mindset going in. Investor meetings make you: 1. say what you’re going to do (make a plan and stick to it); 2. explain whether or not you did what you said last [...]
HOWTO use Dropbox to organize your startup’s documents
(or, poor man’s document management system, on the cheap.) This quick HOWTO is inspired by the trial-and-error learnings we’ve had at RevenueLoan over the last several months of getting into business. I’m using the example of a new company called, uncreatively, “NewCo.” (If your business has an absurdly long name, pick a nice abbreviation with [...]
