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An Economic Downturn Will Probably Kill Your Startup
Startups are the baby wildebeests of the pack. In times of economic uncertainty, young businesses get eaten first. The world of entrepreneurship is a risky one. Even if you do everything right, there's no guarantee that your business will thrive. This long economic...
How to Position Your Startup so Funding Comes to You
The availability of capital for startups is at an all-time high. Finding investors used to be a must-do activity for any startup looking to scale. That landscape has changed. Now, many capital groups, investors, crowdfunding platforms, and alternative funders are...
Who do you belong to?
Are you spending more time building a future you want, or building someone else's? If you are letting the tools in your life (phone, social media, email ext) demand your time instead of improving upon it, I'm afraid it's most likely the latter. It's not to say that...
Multitasking is Ruining your Chances of Success
In 2016, the mother of all media multitasking studies was released. A collection of data from almost 50 studies was researched and aggregated in order to discover the effects of multitasking. The results? Multitasking sucks and is killing your productivity....
Best Fiction for Entrepreneurs in 2022
We have all heard of The Lean Startup and Business Model Generation. In fact, the genre for entrepreneurship book recommendations seems to be incredibly confined. I am convinced that 2022 is going to be far from a normal year for entrepreneurs. With the rise of Web 3,...
Web 3 Side Hustles That Will Make Millionaires in 2022
We are about to enter a new era of the internet. This shift in how we use the world wide web will create both growing pains, and some insane opportunities. Although the internet may be going through an evolution, it does not appear that the gig economy will stop its...
Navigating a Relationship With an Impossible CoFounder
Over the past seven years, I have coached, managed, or consulted on about three dozen startup teams. The only thing that they all had in common? Conflict between founders. I have yet to find the perfect happy marriage when it comes to starting a business. However, I...
A truly good day is filled not with moments that are sacrificed for future fulfillment, but moments that are themselves fulfilling.
There is a formula for happiness I suppose. The trouble is that it is liquid, changing from person to person, season to season. Articles often boast, “101 ways to be your best self”, “how to be 10% happier TODAY”, “Money can’t buy you happiness, but THIS can”, “3...
Crowdfunding > Venture Capital
Crowdfunding has been around for a while. In recent years, however, crowdfunding has really come to the forefront of business and finance. It is now being used in many industries to raise money from people who want to invest in a product or idea they believe in. One...