Guest Post: 9 Lucky Tips Every Successful Entrepreneur Needs to Know
Here are 9 things that every successful entrepreneur needs to know to boost their career.
Blog: Founder Behavior
5 Key Habits of Successful Startup Entrepreneurs – Guest Post by Abigail Price
Successful and established business leaders know that there are some non-negotiable habits that you have to make time for. Here we will talk about some of those key habits.
Managing Startup Paradoxes
As a founder, you’ll find that you’re consistently balancing situations that are self-contradictory and have no single resolution. Here's how to prepare the these startup paradoxes.
5 Ways to Keep Yourself Motivated After Your First Startup Fails – Guest Post by Gemma Reeves
While launching is an startup achievement by itself, keeping it afloat is a different story altogether. Many things can go wrong in the course of running a startup. Even if your products and services are a hit, other factors can still cause your company to fail.
Founder Sacrifices – Relationships
There are many sacrifices that founders make when creating and building startups. Some are obvious, like time and money, but others are more difficult to see before they actually happen. Chief among these founder sacrifices - relationships. The time and energy invested in startups can eat away at personal relationships in an insidious way. Founders need to do what they can to try and maintain their important relationships and try to balance them with the effort required to make the startup successful.
Introvert? Extrovert? Be a Startup Influencer
In The Startup Playbook we have an entire section covering the traits and characteristics of successful founders. In it, we include a discussion of whether being an extrovert is a required startup trait. Hint: contrary to what the press and
Founder Sacrifices – Health
We’ve talked about a number of the sacrifices that founders make when starting a business. You’ll likely earn a lot less money than you can elsewhere. And, you’ll have a lot less time for other activities. You’ll also probably negatively
Work-Life Balance is a Startup Fallacy
When advising new founding teams, entertaining an investment in new startups, and even talking with entrepreneurs about our book, The Startup Playbook, the concept of achieving work-life balance comes up frequently. Almost always, what the founders mean by balance is
How to Deal with an Investor Rejection (or, Handling a “No”)
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time playing angel investor over the years which has given me the chance to meet many great entrepreneurs. In general, when an entrepreneur contacts me, he/she is looking for money, advice or both. Generally
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