An honest and candid look at startup challenges to save entrepreneurs some grief and money.
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What Problems DO Just Go Away With Time?
I’m neck-deep in startup issues ranging from raising capital to dealing with frustrating employees to trying to chase down customers for payment. Is there some point where this all just sorta goes away and the business starts to run more comfortably?
Workplace Stress and How Mindfulness Can Help Reduce It
With 62% of workers reporting that work is their main source of stress, it is necessary for both employers and employees to be mindful of their mental wellbeing. There are several ‘easy to do’ solutions to the growing issue of stress, and the most efficacious of these is mindfulness. When mindfulness is practiced within the […]
Read This Before You Make Another Decision
1. There’s No Perfect Decision. There’s Just Life. It’s just the truth – you don’t know the alternative and you never will. There’s no time machine, there’s no future machine, there’s just no way to really know whether you made the right move or not. Whichever decision you make, you won’t know how the other […]
The Emotional Cost Of Being A Startup Founder
We don’t do a great job of talking about the most important cost of starting a company – our mental and emotional well-being. Every bit of startup life chips away at our lives as a constant grind. It’s a journey few of us truly appreciate until we are too far into it. It’s time to start having a more open conversation about what it really costs to be a startup Founder.
If These Quotes Could Be You, Don’t Try A New Startup
Put aside your fantasies, and take a hard look at who you really are, before you commit to the entrepreneurial lifestyle
Office Relationships are Key, But Affairs are Trouble
To office romance, or not to…
8 Strategies to Avoid the Entrepreneur Arrogance Trap
In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Fortunately, […]
8 Keys To Business Success For Entrepreneur Introverts
As an introvert myself, I remember worrying that I could never be comfortable giving a sales pitch or networking to find clients. Yet I soon found that knowledge is power, and a little training and determination goes a long way toward removing the qualms. In fact, I’m now convinced that many extraverts rely too much […]
3 Mindset Shifts To Prepare For The Transformative Power Of Blockchain And Emerging Technologies
Do you remember when MapQuest first hit the scene in the late 90s? It blew people’s minds that they could print out directions for getting anywhere they wanted to go. To be sure, making a map digital and interactive was a huge step forward, but it was a linear, incremental way of thinking. This fact […]