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Starting a business can get you fired. If your focus goes away from the job then your boss can get angry. No one talks about that … but it’s true. The point of starting a one-person business is to: • Explore your untapped potential • See if you can find a customer base • FindContinueContinue reading “The Quiet Way to Start a One-Person Business”

Exploring how tiny changes in a product lead to substantial increases in conversionThe Leaky FunnelOne lesson I’ve had to relearn repeatedly over the years is that, often times, hard things can be made easier by simply reframing how you approach them. This past week, in reflecting on the consumer tech products I’ve built, I was ableContinueContinue reading “Compounding Improvements”

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. We all have our favorite metric and our passion, but keeping up with real-world changes and trends seems to be always just out of reach. The issues are peopleContinueContinue reading “6 Keys To Predicting The Performance Of Your Business”

If revenues are down, you’re burnt out, or the recession-induced fear-mongering is getting to you, here’s the best use of your time. I’m just going to tell it like it is: Passive income is freaking weird. By weird, I don’t mean to imply that it isn’t an amazing thing to build into your business; itContinueContinue reading “6 Signs Your Guilty Pleasure Is Your Next Startup Success”

More and more large companies are creating venture groups to invest in startups When we think of venture capital, what comes to mind are traditional venture capital firms like a16z or Sequoia. We don’t usually think of large corporations like Verizon, Pfizer, or Salesforce as venture capitalists. But they are. In fact, GV (Google Ventures)ContinueContinue reading “How to Make Corporate Venture Capital the Solution to Your Funding Needs”