As any business owner will tell you, finding those first ten or twenty customers is always the hardest. For one, you are not an established business – so there is no credibility to showcase. Anand Srinivasan Views 4283Likes 0
How To Be Successful In Business (Without Being an Expert)
There is one mantra that successful entrepreneurs often offer to aspirants – ‘Fail, and fail fast’. The premise is that you do not have to be an expert while launching a business. Rather, what matters is that you need to learn from your mistakes and pivot quickly. Anand Srinivasan Views 5687Likes 0
5 Strategies to Make the Most of Your CFO
When you’ve got a great CFO, it’s tempting to keep her siloed in the “money corner,” slaving away in Excel and making projections. You rely on her to monitor cash flow and paint an accurate picture of your company’s financial health — now and in the future. Guest Author Views 4421Likes 0
Why You Should Work at a Startup
Startup communities are cropping up all over the world. Which makes it easy to wonder if you should work at a startup. In fact, Global News called 2014 ‘The Year of Startup Communities’. Almost every day, a new accelerator program is announced. Kimberley Castlemain Views 4318Likes 0
Tips to Write a Press Release
Startups need press coverage. There are so many examples of how one good exposure in the media has sparked a viral story across the internet. It sounds easy, but a lot of legwork goes on in the background to make this happen. Kimberley Castlemain Views 4671Likes 0
What I Learned From Tim Ferriss
When you’re starting up a new venture, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Sometimes, it seems as though your startup is running you, not the other way around. For me, this meant spending too many hours a week working where I wasn’t needed. Guest Author Views 3156Likes 0
3 Reasons Equity-Crowdfunding Should Be Forbidden
As the crowdfunding industry is looking forward to welcoming equity crowdfunding as a legislated form of startup funding, the impatience about the slow rate of its introduction is growing. There are some serious issues however that makes it worth considering whether or not every potential investor should be exposed to the possible dangers. Ludwine Dekker Views 2972Likes 0
Why Business Continuity Planning Is Critical For Your Business
Disaster often strikes without warning. On August 2, 2013, a hardware failure on a Utah based data center resulted in more than 5 million websites across the world affected by a server outage. Endurance International Group, the company that operated the data center was a partner to a number of leading web hosting companies like Blue Host, HostGator and HostMonster. So was data lost? No. Anand Srinivasan Views 2720Likes 0
The Pains of Scaling a Startup
It’s an unfortunate reality that less than 50 percent of small business startups make it to four years, according to BLS.gov. But it’s reality nonetheless, and everyone is striving to make it as one of the few still standing. Jennifer Stiles Views 2842Likes 0
