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It’s easy for an entrepreneur or a CEO to feel like a leader when things are going well, but the challenge is to keep that confidence and drive in the face of economic downturns, business turnarounds, and stressful personnel situations. Working twenty hours a day, losing your cool, and falling back to a no-risk strategyContinueContinue reading “7 Suggestions For Motivating Your Team In Tough Times”

Almost every employee or team member can remember that one special boss in their career who was the role model of a leader, always commanded respect, and was able to get the most voluntarily from everyone all the time. Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most can’t evenContinueContinue reading “8 Practices Common To The Greatest Leader Role Models”

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Some argue the only way to start is to drop everything and jump in with both feet, while others recommend an overlapped approach to the lifestyle, including not quitting your day job until you have revenue and a provenContinueContinue reading “6 New Venture Challenges Make It An Endurance Sport”

Framework of quitting from a YC Founder, ex-MBB consultant, and Softbank InvestorSource: iStock (tatianazaets)“If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it’s actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup.”That quote from Paul Graham’s essay How Not to Die stuck with me during my strugglesContinueContinue reading “Why The Top 1% of Founders Quit Their Startups”

You can’t just build it and hope they comeIf you build it, they will come. Right?What worked for a corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa, decisively does NOT work for startups. The startup graveyard is littered with companies with incredible products that went under because they did not focus on distribution until it was too late.Getting those first usersContinueContinue reading “How to Get Your Startups First 100 Users”