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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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5 Best Podcasts for SaaS Startup Founders
As innovators, the teams at SaaS startups are constantly learning. There are few established and “correct” ways of doing things in this...
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Startup Q&A with Bellwethr's Matt Moody
Bellwethr Founder & President, Matt Moody, chats about how his startup helps tech companies grow and track customer satisfaction, and more.
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Take the Money or Run? 3 Reasons to (and Not to) Take VC Money
When your company is poised for exponential growth, you may have a shot at convincing venture capitalists to take a gamble on you, your...
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Why Audience Testing is an Important Step in the Tech Startup Naming Process
After you have dedicated hours or even days of your time brainstorming names and crossing off every possibility, you have at last found...
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Book Review – Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
It started with six pieces of Lego. Dan Lyons, former Newsweek technology editor, as well as writer on the HBO series Silicon Valley (and...
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Startup Funding: When to Bootstrap vs. Raise Equity
When is bootstrapping best, and when is it best to raise equity? Here's a guide for making this critical startup funding decision.
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When to Hire a Content Marketing Manager for Your Startup
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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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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Book Review – The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
Four companies are at the top of the pyramid for technology and digital media: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Each one is very...
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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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What Should a Business Plan Include?
When you’re setting up a new business, it’s one thing to have a good elevator pitch or a convincing story to tell at a “speed-dating for...
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