YEC
The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. Follow the YEC on Twitter @YEC.
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4 Legitimate Reasons to Fire a Toxic Client
Business ventures are a give-and-take experience. Having a healthy relationship with your clients is necessary for your business to succeed. There’s the key word: “healthy.” Both you and your client have to establish a healthy…
Prepping for an Investor Pitch? Don’t Get Blinded by Tunnel Vision
Don’t let your drive steer you down a dead end. For a startup founder, enthusiasm is a necessary piece of the personality puzzle. You took the leap and started your business because you believe in…
What They Don’t Teach You in Business School About Being an Entrepreneur
Here’s something they don’t teach in business school: At some point, starting a company will give you a stomachache. It will be caused by some combination of unrelenting stress, constant uncertainty and too much late night takeout…
4 Ways to Cope with the Pressures of Leadership
The freedom of being a leader comes with hidden shackles: the ties you feel to your investors, supporters, employees and all of the other people you don’t want to let down. As a business leader…
5 Tips for Planning a Professional Event People Will Remember
In my business, there’s an art and science to creating a great event experience. As the co-founder of a New York-based, women-owned brand experience agency, I’ve produced over 250 events. In the last six years,…
6 Ways to Inspire Creativity in Your Office
To get something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done before. The same applies to the workplace and your team. The truth is, to spark creativity in a team, you have to be…
Searching for Stephs: Identifying the Greats in Early-Stage Startups
At my investment firm, we look for “Stephs” — as in NBA player Steph Curry for the Golden State Warriors. Why? He’s the underdog that no one expected to be great. As the skinny, baby-faced…
5 Ways to Turn Today’s Leads into Tomorrow’s Customers
There are a lot of statistics out there that say successful businesses should end up closing about one out of every three calls. But I know from experience that this is often not the case, and I’ll tell you…
Looking for Support? Connect with Like-Minded Entrepreneurs
The old proverb, “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are,” translates into surrounding yourself with the right people. As a startup founder, surrounding yourself with like-minded entrepreneurs can have a major…
Still Doing Annual Performance Reviews? Improve Your Process
One of my first jobs was working as a technical analyst at a large consulting firm. I worked at the end of a row of cubicles, at a place where the closest thing to company…