Navigating the Great Resignation
Navigating “The Great Resignation” and Lessons from a Lighter Capital portfolio company, by Melissa Widner, CEO Lighter Capital Nothing...
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6 Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover
For SaaS companies, understanding how to utilize effective employee retention strategies to reduce employee turnover and retain key...
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4 Ways to Protect Your Business From Wage and Hour Lawsuits
In 2017, employers were hit with over 8,200 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage and hour lawsuits, largely due to failure to pay the...
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How to Build a Customer Success Team (And When to Scale)
When to invest in a customer success team is a big question for many growing startups. Obviously, happy customers are key to business...
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Effective Meeting Strategies: 7 Tips to Conduct More Effective Meetings
Everyone agrees that meetings are essential, but everyone also agrees that meetings can be a time-suck. It’s important to get people face...
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Silos and Turf Wars: How to Break Down Silos in the Workplace
As we can see from the discussion thus far, silos in the workplace are primarily created for a couple of reasons: Lack of cohesion at the...
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Silos and Turf Wars: An In-Depth Look Into the Causes of Organizational Silos
As a point of clarity, there is another silos definition being used in the SaaS market. In this definition, a silo exists when a SaaS...
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Silos and Turf Wars: What are Organizational Silos and Why Do They Exist
Silos and turf wars We have all most likely seen organizational silos, or turf wars, in action in our careers. Different departments...
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How to Conduct a Business Meeting Your Employees Won’t Hate
“If it weren’t for the meetings, this would be the perfect job.” How many times have you felt this way about your weekly group status...
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On Being a Startup CEO – Roles, Responsibilities and Priorities
Over the years, I have mentored a number of startup CEOs, and I’ve been one myself for over 30 years. I’ve made numerous mistakes over...
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Don’t Let Poor Ergonomics in the Workplace Lead to a Life of Pain
You probably don’t use a desktop computer. They fell out of fashion when people reasoned they’d like to carry their work with them, and...
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Information Overload? How to Slim Down iOS, Android Notifications
When you got your first iOS or Android smartphone, you probably allowed it to send you notifications for every possible event. It was a...
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How to Know When It’s Time to Hire a Content Marketing Manager
Every business lives or dies by the way it communicates. Whether it’s advertising, press releases, social media, email marketing, or blog...
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Equity Compensation for Startup Employees: Top Mistakes to Avoid
Equity compensation is a great recruiting tool and an effective employee retention strategy for startups and early stage companies. You...
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Boost Your Creativity: Learn to Cook or Learn to Play a Musical Instrument
Every successful startup succeeds because it has new, original ideas. And these ideas don’t come out of nowhere; they arise because of...
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Strategies for Raising Capital to Build a Startup Team
Start planning to build your early startup team, how you'll compensate them, and your strategy for raising the capital you need.
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When to Hire Your First Employee (And Who to Hire First)
There are several sets of questions that face every startup entrepreneur in the early days of their business adventure. These include:...
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Letting Your Mind Go Free: The Value of Daydreaming
I sit at my desk, a warm mug of tea in my hands, and look out the window to my left. Across the narrow road is a wheat field, and peeking...
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How to Hire Sales Reps for a Startup and Ensure Their Success
“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.” – Elon Musk Sustainable growth is...
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3 Causes of a Miserable Job (and What to Do About Miserable Employees)
Your employees are miserable. There, I said it. And I said it without knowing anything about your company, your role or your experience....
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