Strategic Planning
5 Essential Steps to Reaching Your Business Goals
You want to reach your business goals, right? Chinese philosopher Lau Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Unfortunately, that first step is often the hardest. Reaching your business goals…
Get Rid of Excess Baggage
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. ~Warren Buffett Another lesson from my recent 450-mile trek on the Camino de Santiago in Spain is about…
Entrepreneurs: Take the Time to Celebrate Your Exit
We come to the end of this cycle of insights with a thought about how you might view your successful exit from the company you have spent so much effort to build. You’ve worked hard…
5 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask Themselves
A large part of achieving success is asking the right questions and getting honest answers. These questions will have an effect during any stage in your career and it starts with you. What am I…
The Entrepreneurial Time Machine
Do you believe in time travel? I do. Though I’ve not fully figured it out, I can say definitively that it is possible to distort time. With practice you can both slow down and speed up…
How to Avoid Burnout as a Startup Founder
Owning a business is both a demanding task and taxing endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you’re a one-person show or a C-Suite executive: stress levels can become overwhelming and debilitating. During my first two years of…
Need a Growth Strategy? Avoid These Epic Fails.
What do startups and mature SMBs have in common? The need to develop and implement an effective growth strategy. This always proves easier said than done and that is in part due to the fact…
Own Your Day
Have you ever reached the end of a day and felt like you got nothing done? It’s a horrible feeling! Frustrating days like this leave us with a laundry list of people and circumstances that…
Business in Action: Leadership Retreats
According to “Fast Company” magazine, there are some key ideas to consider when planning a fun leadership retreat: seek new scenery; know that it takes time to build strong teams; incorporate fun into the regular…
Turning Out the Lights is a Type of Exit
In my life as an early stage investor, I’ve been closely involved with so many businesses, there were bound to be numerous stories of failures, hopefully from which to learn lessons for all of us…
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