Management Articles
The Startup CEO’s #1 Job
As a startup CEO, it often feels like you are responsible for everything. Product development, creating your investor pitch deck, getting customers, recruiting your team, networking, and fundraising. Entrepreneurs tell me every day that they are frustrated with the...
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The Dirty Dozen: 12 KPIs You Must Know Before Pitching Your Startup
Phil Nadel is Co-Founder of Barbara Corcoran Ventures and a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with many years of experience building rapidly growing companies. In this guest post, Phil highlights 12 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that founders must measure,...
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Networks: The Secret Ingredient in Entrepreneurial Success
It's scary enough to jump off a cliff, but why would anyone attempt to also assemble an aircraft on the way down? In essence, that's the question that LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, put to an audience at the recent Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Here's what Reid...
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Do You Want to be CEO or be Rich?
Entrepreneur's put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into launching their startups. So it's understandable that they may not want to relinquish control as the company grows. But the question they should be answering is, "Do I want to be CEO, or do I want to become...
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Are You Making These Common Sweat Equity Mistakes
Over the years I've seen many founders make mistakes when it comes to sweat equity. I'd like to cover the common ones and, hopefully, help you to avoid them. As you likely know, it takes a lot of energy to actually get a startup off the ground. Founders start with an...
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You Need a Sherpa to Achieve Business Stardom
My passion is helping entrepreneurs to realize their dreams. To do so, they must learn from the lessons that caused so many entrepreneurs to fail. My aim is to be a business sherpa, if you will, so that I can help them avoid mistakes that are so common to startups....
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