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Most of the small business and solo professionals I know don’t have an assistant. Whether they are an independent consultant, coach, professional speaker, writer, or even a startup CEO, they consider an administrative assistant a waste of money.
Why spend on an admin when I know how to use a computer and can do it myself?
Venture capitalist Mark Suster, 0n...
In 2013, Gagan Biyani was working as what techies like to call a "growth hacker" at the ride-hailing company Lyft—his job was to help launch its service in Los Angeles, Lyft’s first market beyond San Francisco—when a childhood friend, Neeraj Berry, asked him if he’d be interested in applying Lyft’s blueprint to another type of service.
Cooking up loyalty: in...
In my work with teaching entrepreneurship -- showing people how to think and act like an entrepreneur -- I’ve been asked countless times about what I think is the most important ingredient in entrepreneurial success. Most often I say that the entrepreneurial mindset is the most important and I believe it is.
It’s the clear answer to me because the...
ou undoubtedly know that building a personal brand is important -- I talked about it in a previous blog post here. Thanks to social media, the 'behind the scenes' cast of companies, large and small, has become extremely accessible.
Consumers now, more than ever, are interested in connecting with a personal brand first, and then engaging with a company. Your...
I recently pitched to a group of seasoned entrepreneurs, who were picking winners to pitch to a group of venture capitalists (VC) at a local Singaporean VC firm.
There were many good ideas, some of them already funded or on their way to getting funded. After my pitch, which in my opinion was not the best, I sat down and thought about...
By James Cook
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt has outlined what he sees as being the ideal startup in five years' time.
Schmidt says a key quality of a future successful tech company will be a reliance on crowdsourced data. He gave the example of a company that sources data about skin cells and then uses machine learning to process that information.
A...
Being an entrepreneur is challenging in many regards and one of them is managing the ups and downs that come from starting and running a business. It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to become deflated or depressed and feel like they have nobody to turn to.
Since mindset and dealing with adversity is so critical to success, and given recent...
By Laura Vanderkam
Ask successful people for career advice, and they’ll mention networking, for good reason. It works. That doesn’t stop people from hating the idea, though. One recent study on networking found words used to describe the process included "fake," "deceitful," and "disingenuous." With such a negative connotation, no wonder it’s easy to underinvest in building a network.
But master...
Study any successful entrepreneur and nearly every single one will point to a mentor as the key ingredient to their success.
Getting a mentor is arguably the most powerful piece of advice any budding entrepreneur can receive when embarking on a career in business. Research the wealthiest people in world and you’ll discover that they all had mentors. Warren Buffett’s mentor...
By Sam Madden
More people are starting new businesses than ever before. That’s not because all of a sudden this year more folks have better ideas than in years past. It’s because the barriers to creating a new business have never been lower.
Technology has broken down the walls and empowered anyone to start a business of any kind. Flexibility, cost...