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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What Is Seed Money and How Do You Get It For Your Startup?
When it's time to get serious and raise seed money for your startup, start here. Learn what it is and how to prepare for a seed round.
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7 Ways Your Startup Can Thrive In A Tough Economy
In the span of a few short months, the entire global economy has changed. The way we work has changed. Even the way we live our daily...
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How to Grow a SaaS Startup From $0 to $50 million ARR
Learn best practices for growing a SaaS startup from $0 to $50M in ARR, so you can build a winning business roadmap.
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How to Write an Elevator Pitch That Will Open the Door to New Opportunities
An elevator pitch is essentially a short speech intended to generate interest in an idea or proposition within a very limited timeframe....
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Book Review – The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barrier
Most books about business are written by people involved in creating and managing companies: founders, CEOs, or venture capitalists. They...
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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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Channel Your Inner Unicorn: Lessons from the $1B Market Cap Club
If you’re at the helm of a fast-growing startup, you may have wondered if your innovative project has what it takes to become a unicorn....
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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 Improve Scalability in Cost Structure
Scalability is a searing hot topic among entrepreneurs and investors these days. Startups must have a firm grasp of how scaling a...
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Gross Margin vs. Net Margin – What’s the Difference?
Assessing the financial health of your startup is something you need to do frequently as your business moves through different growth...
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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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Book Review – Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Every founder of a startup dreams of their company becoming the next Apple, Amazon, or Alphabet. Every entrepreneur imagines that they...
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Book Review – The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
It’s not easy to start a business, and it’s no easier to run it once things get going. If you want an easy job, you don’t become an...
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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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How to Make Your Business Stand out From the Crowd by Leveraging Your Point of Difference
One of the most critical things you need to think about as you grow your startup is how to make your business stand out from the crowd....
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Bullet Journal: Redefining Personal Productivity Methods
There are lots of productivity methods and techniques for organizing your activities and getting more done, but finding the best method...
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