STARTUP DANIEL GOVENDER

Navigating High-Growth Startup Success

The crucial role of corporate governance.

STARTUP SAJID MOHAMEDY

Nailing Customer Loyalty: A Guide for Founders for Retail Success

Unpacking four best practices companies are using today.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

7 Critical Steps From a Lone Business Founder to a Winning Team

Don't assume that your passion and a great idea are all you need for business success.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

5 Personal Realities That Aspiring Business Owners Often Ignore

Don't let your passion for a new business overcome your preparation for the real challenges.

STARTUP KOLAWOLE SAMUEL ADEBAYO

How Mobile Money Can Unlock Huge Doors for African Developers

How a platform observed that mobile money payments are huge in Africa and decided to leverage that trend.

STARTUP CRAIG CORBETT

Founders, Fundraising Announcements are Dead

Try these techniques instead to get your startup noticed.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

10 Keys To Successfully Transitioning To A Manager In Your Business

Successfully starting a new venture does not assure success in scaling it for the long term.

STARTUP MOLLY OWEN

The Founding Team's Personality Mix Matters to Startup Success

Entrepreneurs are a different breed, but research shows the personality mix of the founder team helps determine a startup's success

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Everyone Tells Startup Founders What They Should Do. Everyone Is All Wrong

The list of people you should listen to is probably a list of one.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

A Beekeeping Startup's 3 Head-Buzzing Leadership Lessons

Combine an outsider with an insider and the fresh thinking can put your company in the lead.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

Lessons for Leaders From a San Francisco Startup That Improves Business Writing

Make the customer's pain go away better than the competition does and you are off to the races.

STARTUP STEVE STRAUSS

What Amazon and Virgin Know About Growing a Business That You Don't

Small-business owners too often get stuck saying and selling the same old thing again and again. But breaking out means thinking and acting like bigger businesses.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Why AI Is Forcing Startups To Chase a Mirage

AI is just the latest shiny object on the path to misguided strategy.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

A Pivot Is Not a Startup Success Story

A business is not a video game, or Monopoly for that matter.

STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS' ORGANIZATION

Insights Learned From Raising $1.5 Million in Startup Funding

Why having people from your network bet on you with an angel investment is like motivational rocket fuel.

STARTUP KELLY MAIN

After Many Startup Flops, I Discovered Why I'm 'Entrepreneurially Avoidant' – and It's Oddly Common

A common relationship style might be the culprit of many failed startup ideas.

STARTUP CHARLES LEE MATHEWS

Global Women-led Incubation Programme Brought To Africa

Women on the continent intend to close the gender gap in Africa, where they still get too little funding.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

Should You Start a Company? Use 4 Tests to Decide

Answer these questions to boost the long odds against startup success.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

8 Keys to Stepping Out on Your Own in Business With Minimum Risk

Don't let passion or emotion turn your new business from a dream into a nightmare.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

This Is When You Run Away From a Startup Investor

There are a lot of reasons to walk away. This is the one time to run.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

When Should You Give Up On Your Startup Idea?

Create this decision framework now, before you need it. Because you will indeed need it.

STARTUP HOWARD TULLMAN

The 5 New Rules of Startups

Say goodbye to the hero entrepreneur and one-size-fits-all. Say hello to flexible, committed teams, and taking mass customization to a new level.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Be Prepared to Spend at Least $10,000 on Your Startup in the First Year

Fund your business like a venture capital investor would.

STARTUP RANJAY GULATI

3 Crucial Factors to Manage Your Company's Growth Without Losing Its Spark

How a fast-growing business can restore its entrepreneurial soul.

STARTUP YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR COUNCIL

4 Pillars of B2B Brand Trust: How to Build Customer Confidence

Trust comes from showing competence, integrity, reliability and empathy in all interactions with B2B buyers.

STARTUP HILLEL FULD

The Connection between Online Influencers and Raising Venture Capital for Your Startup

Founders, do not pay finders to introduce you to investors and here's why.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

How Formula 1's New Las Vegas Grand Prix Provides Important Lessons for Every Aspiring Entrepreneur

And about how it's definitely possible (even preferable) to start your own business while keeping your full-time job.

STARTUP RANJAY GULATI

How to Save a Stumbling Startup

What do do when your company is growing too fast.

STARTUP JESSICA STILLMAN

The 5 Types of Entrepreneurs, According to a VC and Serial Founder

Successful entrepreneurs come in many more types and flavors than most people imagine.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

How To Become an Overnight Success With Your Startup

The path to overnight success has 4 phases. How quickly can you get through each one?

STARTUP HILLEL FULD

5 Questions That Can Determine If Your Startup Will Be Successful

Now that you have a startup idea, here's how to know if it has legs.

STARTUP YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR COUNCIL

Maintaining a Strong Company Culture Amid Rapid Growth: Essential Tips for Leaders

Create an environment where your company's shared vision thrives – even as your team grows.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

Arnold Schwarzenegger Just Gave the Perfect Reason to Keep Your Full-Time Job While Starting Your Own Business

Go all in when you start a business? Not when it limits your options and decisions you can make.

STARTUP MARILIZE JACOBS

Are You Working To Be Happy?

Or happy to be working?

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

How Tech Startups 'Fake It Until They Make It' – Or Until They Go To Jail

It's OK to promise the moon, but you'd better deliver.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

5 Lessons From Founding CEO Who Led A Startup To $51 Billion

Turn lemons into lemonade, adapt your style to each scaling stage, let go to grow, keep adding value to customers and build bench strength

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Why Startup Leaders Fail: Micromanagement

True leadership is building a house without swinging a hammer.

STARTUP BHARAT KANODIA

3 Essential Skills of a Successful Entrepreneur

Diversity, networking and drive are key. Here's how to foster these traits.

STARTUP CHRIS RONZIO

A Step-by-Step Guide for Documenting Processes

An easy-to-use guide for businesses of all types that will enable you to streamline your processes and better prepare your employees.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

The Tech Shortcut Most Entrepreneurs Take That Kills Their Startup

Low-tech solutions make it easy to go fast and break stuff and that's a problem

STARTUP RICHARD PEREZ

SA Startups Need To Play A Longer Game To Win

Moreso, given that succeeding as an entrepreneur in this country is trickier now than ever.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

4 Leadership Lessons From a $200 Million, Fast-Growing, Profitable Startup

Adapt your business model to scarce capital, build on your strengths and overcome your weaknesses.

STARTUP CARMINE GALLO

The Best Startup Advice You'll Ever Hear, According to Nike's Phil Knight

The real secret behind Nike's astonishing success.

STARTUP MINDA ZETLIN

A LinkedIn Post by a Former Google Employee Has Been Viewed 1.5 Million Times and Could Lead to 25 New Startups

Laid-off Google product manager Cameron Rout says there's probably never been a better time for startups.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

Why Steve Jobs's 'Most Valuable Piece of Advice' for Entrepreneurs Applies to Anyone, Doing Anything

According to Jobs, 'sane' people quit when things get tough. Why doesn't everyone?

STARTUP HILLEL FULD

Founders: If You Say This Sentence, You're Doing it Wrong

Instead of simply saying something, prove it with data.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

31 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Shared the Best Reason You Should Start Your Own Business (Even If It's 'Just' a Side Hustle)

While it has nothing to do with money or 'success,' it has everything to do with you.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

3 Keys To Turning Your Idea Into A $10 Billion Company

Solve the right problem, build the best solution, get more efficient as you grow.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Why Entrepreneurs Waste Time on Low ROI Activities

Learning the difference between quality time and wasted time.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Define Success Before You Start Your Company

You can't get what you want until you know what you want.

STARTUP GRAHAM WINFREY

How This Former NFL and WWE Athlete Is Helping Pro Wrestlers Make Millions

Launched earlier this year, Paragon Talent Group estimates it will have generated more than $10 million in revenue for its clients by the end of 2022.

STARTUP TOMMY MELLO

Starting a Business During a Recession or Bear Market Is a Risk You Should Take

Conventional thinking says to wait it out, but one study of Inc. 500 companies indicates it might be the perfect time to bet the house.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Here's All the Data Startups Need To Track For Investors

Take the mystery out of your investor pitch deck and data room.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

You Could Be Too Young to Start a Successful Business, but Science Says You Can Never Be Too Old

One example: a 60- year-old founder is nearly three times as likely to start a business that winds up in the top 0.1 percent of all companies as founders in their 20s.

STARTUP PETER COHAN

3 Growth Principles from a Tel Aviv Startup

Pick the right market, deliver a solution that customers crave, choose an investor who shares your vision.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

How Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Built a Thriving Mezcal Business By Keeping Promises and Honoring Commitments

My conversation with the Dos Hombres co-founders on why they decided to start a company together, the importance of social impact, and each defines 'success.'

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

Blitzscaling Worked for Airbnb. But Will It Work for Your Startup?

How quickly should you try to scale your business? Especially if raising capital – or spending what capital you have – is required?

STARTUP MARCEL SCHWANTES

7 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make That Sabotage Their Success

Entrepreneurs can learn to spot these mistakes in advance and act to prevent them.

STARTUP CHIMKWANUM NWABUWE OKECHA

Three Reasons Why Startups Run By Gen Zs Fail

Lessons for entrepreneurs in Africa.

STARTUP JEFF HADEN

Can a Successful Business Have 2 Cultures? According to 23XI Racing Co-Owner Denny Hamlin, Yes

23XI co-owner Denny Hamlin and president Steve Lauletta on launching a new race team, balancing short- and long-term goals and building a fairly unique culture.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

7 Lessons to Learn Before Success Comes in an Alternate Business Lifestyle

New business owners wrongly tend to fall in love with their solution, rather than the problem it solves.

STARTUP MARTIN ZWILLING

6 Realities to Consider Before Starting Your Own Business

Starting and running your own business requires considerations that you probably did not anticipate.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

My Startup Got a 95 Net Promoter Score and That's a Problem

Experience tells me that I've got a good problem to have.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Make Your Startup Stand Out Without Spending a Fortune

You don't need consultants but you do need to brush up on your problem-solving.

STARTUP TONYE IRIMS

The Biggest Risk is to Avoid Taking Risks

Nigerian Tonye Irims has had massive failures but is now baking a big success with WiSolar. This is his founder’s diary.

STARTUP JOE PROCOPIO

Startup Success Comes Slowly. Don't Let Your Ambition Lead To Mistakes

Frustration fuels behavior that can actually set you back.


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