First things first– congratulations on your new role. At Tradecraft, we’ve witnessed just how much work goes into landing a job at a great startup, and you should feel...
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I have grown significantly on the matter of entrepreneurial mindset, improved my networking and people skills, connected with so many inspiring individuals and their unique stories, failed a lot,...
Your employees have a lot of thoughts. Most of those thoughts they don’t share, especially with you. At times their silence can be a good thing, especially where your...
Ultimately, a start-up is still a business. It’s still a company, and it still has to make money. Even companies who double as mythical beasts with a single shiny...
Look, whether you’re excited about your brand new startup or you’re starting to lose excitement from objections, conflict, lost revenue or a bad business plan — none of that...
Being a successful entrepreneur takes more than vision. It requires continuous efforts, even at times when you don’t want to work or not motivated enough. Productivity is a process...
7 signs that you’re focused on stuff that doesn’t matter, and how to snap out of it. “I love startups. I hate the startup scene.” I was having lunch...
It seems like everyone is calling themselves an entrepreneur these days. I have to admit, I called myself one when I didn’t know the real meaning. The problem with...
Sooner or later, as an entrepreneur, you’re going to reach a crossroad. You’re going to reach a point where you choose whether you want to maintain ownership of your...
Earlier this year, I closed my startup. So now I get to reflect on what I’d have done differently. Hindsight is unfair and inaccurate, but I still enjoy its...
I know we all want to do important things. We all want to work on important products, start important companies and accomplish tasks that could change the world and...
Entrepreneurship
You Might be an Entrepreneur if … 7 unexpected signs that you’re meant for the startup life
I’ve been thinking about a “You might be an entrepreneur” routine — in other words, slightly unexpected signs you’ve got what it takes to go through the thrilling, punishing,...
During the early days of Crowdfire, someone with prior experience helped, guided and connected me with the right people without expecting anything in return. This inspired me to contribute...
Nobody owes you shit. I know startups are cool right now. They’re incredibly hot, they’ve broken into the mainstream spotlight and not a day goes by that we don’t...
1) THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF ADVICE I CAN GIVE FOLKS STARTING OUT: BE GREAT AT AN IMPORTANT SKILL. The important skills in the world right now include: a....
I’ve spent 20 years as a founder, and during 10 of those years I had investors. My second (major) company was Weblogs, Inc. (Engadget, Joystiq, Autoblog, Gadling, etc.) and...
1. Success isn’t transitive Its easy to understand that the people who get you from A to B, don’t always get you from B to C. But the second...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is a 34 member combine of democracies around the world, striving for you guessed it, sustainable economic development around the world....
Entrepreneurship
Don’t You Want To Know The Reasons Behind Why The Investors Are Not Interested In Your Startup?
I will not invest in your startup! Perhaps I have lost the count now of how many times I have heard this. I have tried and tried and tried...
Here are 58 powerful quotes that have kept me focused and moving forward as an entrepreneur since 2001. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our...
Statistics says 75% of startups fail. Yes, this is the bitter truth as far as the success rate of a startup is concerned. Exceptions are Facebook, Amazon, Google, Instagram, and...
Some business tenets tend to come and go. A company I worked for started a number of “game-changing” transformational programs only to quickly airbrush them out of our corporate...
Entrepreneurs are a curious bunch of innovators, who are self-reliant and focused. They are constantly mastering their own craft and developing their own niche. They do the same things...
Meeting an investor often gives out a feeler of a horror flick. Not that we want to put the good Samaritan in the shoes of a vampire, but this...
Movies… they make us laugh, they make us cry. Sometimes they inspire the heck out of us. Grab yourself a bucket of popcorn, turn down the lights, and take...
A common question I get all the time: what is the biggest mistake young entrepreneurs are making? They’re building businesses that only work during the best-case market scenarios. Let...
The right way to create a killer pitch deck and get funded — from someone who has raised $125M since 2011. Creating a pitch deck is hard, especially when...
A person becomes can only become a successful person when he/she is known by the traits he/she bears. Exceptional business professionals are rare to see, they overcome the challenges...
So, you have come up with a rocking idea that is going to change the world. How exciting!! You are all set to conquer the world well, there is...
Entrepreneurship
For the confused and curious, 10 things to ponder over while quitting job to start business!
We love to craft our own ideas in order to build a niche, and that requires making some hard decisions. Starting a business is more than projecting numbers and...
In the last three weeks, I’ve given three talks to groups of entrepreneurs. It’s really great to get out and meet entrepreneurs at the beginning of their journey and offer...
The world is spinning around us on its own. The world does not need us. No one cares if you exist at all, until you start changing things all...
According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Of course, no entrepreneur wants his or her startup to fail. But,...
Running your own business is the new cool. With increasing young guns venturing into the mean and competitive space, world is now seeing the new era of business tycoons...
Pitching your startup to investors just might be the most nerve-wracking aspect of starting your new business — well, besides the prospect of losing your shirt. I get it....
7 things to analyze before you throw in the towel and give up. Building a startup is really hard, especially if you’re a first-time founder. Not only do you...
Mark Zuckerberg had a programming tutor at age 11. Bill Gates was excused from Math class at age 13 so he could write code. I learned what HTML stood...
People are pessimists. As a rule we’re all pretty negative, and we get off on thinking about how bad everything is, and how much better it used to be....
“I have idea X, what do I do next?” One of the first steps to launching a successful startup is building yourMinimal Viable Product. In essence, a Minimal Viable...
How to redefine the competitive landscape and win your first 1,000 customers. Marketing where your competitors do is expensive, especially if they’ve raised a bunch of money. You’ll both...
So many of us are obsessed with getting investors no one really talks about the real down side. So, you cashed the check, now what? Managing the relationship with...
Sometimes knowing the right questions is more important than having all the answers. In a startup environment, this would form the fundamental reason for your existence. When it comes...
Every business needs these four people to provide your business with direction and energy, momentum and connection, correction and elaboration, reflection and openness. Building a business is rough, launching...
Many people believe themselves to be multitasking masters, but could it all be in their heads? Our brains weren’t built to multitask. Our brains are designed to focus on...
As far as I can tell there are six stages to a startup lifecycle. What is super-convenient for this blog post is the fact that all somehow end in...
It’s the greatest time in history to be an entrepreneur and the word is out. More people are creators than ever before and for millennials, nothing is cooler than...
How to cut the bulls*it and grow faster by doing fewer things better. Fred Wilson’s now classic post What a CEO Does, argues that a CEO really only needs...
It was 2013. I have been working at an enterprise product company coding distributed systems for a huge codebase that took 1 hour to build even on a monster...
Having an opportunity to sit down with the young entrepreneurs and hear their stories about their challenges and how they overcome their roadblocks was overwhelming. If you are a...
Do you really think you’ll be successful if you simply copy other people’s habits? If that was the case, success was easy. I never met a successful person until...