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Venture Debt: What Is It and How Does It Work?
What is venture debt and how does it work? Learn the basics so you can avoid bad funding deals that put your business at risk.
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Debt Covenants Explained: A Guide for Startups
What are loan or debt covenants and how do they work? Learn to steer clear of overly-restrictive covenants and avoid costly violations.
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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 Funding and How Do You Get It?
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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What is Diversification Strategy? (Definition and Examples)
Learn all about diversification strategy, including why companies diversify, types of diversification, and real-world examples.
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How to Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Startup
Create a short explanation of your startup that garners interest in a just a few seconds – or the time it takes to go to the next floor.
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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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Employee Retention Strategies for Tech Startups
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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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 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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Book Review – Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
Many high-concept business books present amorphous ideas about how to succeed in business, but Growth IQ by bestselling author, Tiffani...
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Web Presence Management and Domain Names for Startups
These best practices for managing your startup's web presence and choosing domain names will help you build a strong brand out of the gate.
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Why Do Most SaaS Startups Fail?
Learn the four main reasons SaaS startups fail, and how you can avoid them in the early days of building a sustainable business.
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The Startup CEO: Role, 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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Book Review – The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People Into World-Cla
Why exactly do people want to become CEOs? It’s not like the childhood desire to be an astronaut or firefighter, but more a longing to be...
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Book Review – TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Cha
Brent Gleeson studied finance and economics before enlisting in the Navy in 2000, then going through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL...
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