StartABiz Staff
by Dan Martell
Last week I had a call with Jamie.
Jamie was excited about his startup idea.
He even went as far as building a fully functioning product.
It had a great marketing site and a decent looking pricing page.
Now, when I looked at the pricing I knew something was off.
He wasn’t charging enough to build a Growth Engine.
The prices were less...
When I graduated from business school, my goal was to land a high-paying corporate job, and most of my peers wanted the same thing. For better or for worse, most of us did. As I wrote in my book Upgrade, it didn't take me long to lose my illusions. I felt depersonalized and interchangeable in the world of gray...
In a blog post way back in 2006, famed venture capitalist Paul Graham wrote that starting a startup isn’t about a "stick-to-your-vision" approach, but "more like science, where you need to follow the trail wherever it leads."
We see the truth in Graham’s wisdom ubiquitously in companies brave enough to make pivotal changes, adopt a trial-and-error attitude to later reap...
A “side gig” is anything you do in addition to your day job to earn a little extra money. But hour for hour, if you’d going to do it anyway, you may as well earn even more for the time you’re putting in.
There are plenty of smart ways you can make more money. Your side gig doesn't have to be...
by Jonathan Chan
This might be a dated reference but does anyone here remember those old Choose Your Own Adventure books?
Those wacky books that weren’t really books but they sort of were? If not, the gist is that every now and then while reading, you’d be presented with two choices. Depending on your answer, you’d have to flip to page...
By Jessica Stillman
If productivity gurus agree on one thing, it's probably this--waking up and immediately grabbing your phone is a terrible idea.
"When you dive straight into emails, texts, and Facebook, you lose focus and your morning succumbs to the wants and needs of other people," warns author Travis Bradberry in one representative post.
"Author Julie Morgenstern wrote an entire book on...
By Rhett Power
Podcasts have become a very useful tool for the busy entrepreneur. They're easy to create, are quick to digest (especially for those with longer commute times or who use public transport), and can cover a myriad of topics. Do you want to make your commute or lunch hour more productive? Then give these a listen. Here are my top 15 best podcasts for...
By Young Entrepreneur Council
As an entrepreneur, I see the world a bit differently. Since I’ve never had a full-time job or received much training at my part-time work, I’ve always gone with my gut on how certain tasks should be approached.
While experience has its benefits, in my experience, inexperience can lead to innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. That’s how I approached...
by Roy Osing
As a leader, you do have a choice as to how you spend your decision-making time; there are numerous possibilities when it comes to which decisions to make yourself and those that you leave for others.
How do you determine the “my decision” areas?
The criteria I used was payback. Where could I add the greatest value to the...
by Allison Berliner
And the best leaders
The Entrepreneur Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “How do you come up with a new startup idea?” is written by Allison Berliner, founder and CEO of...