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Your Guide to Gaining a Competitive Edge and Succeeding as an Entrepreneur Over the Next 5 Years
As an entrepreneur, you must stay ahead and anticipate the future. To do this, you must refine your current skills and understand successful business practices while sharpening the most important skills you should master in the next five years.From recognizing potential opportunities to adapting quickly to change and maximizing resources for growth, you'll be better equipped to take your business…
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How to Get Your First Meeting With a Top Venture Capitalist
In the world of startups, having the right guidance can make all the difference. This is where the Intro platform comes into play, offering unparalleled access to the world's most in-demand experts for one-on-one video calls. If you're looking to grow your business, build a successful product, or fundraise, look…
5 Ways to Earn Media Coverage Even If You Don’t Have News
Whether a startup or a Fortune 500 company, earning positive and continuous media coverage is an important part of building strong relationships with customers, partners, investors, employees, regulators and other key audiences.Yet even the largest organizations often do not have a steady stream of news to report, which begs the…
Why Startups Must Drop the ‘Fake It ‘Til You Make It’ Mentality
The recent imprisonment of Elizabeth Holmes got me thinking more deeply about the old Silicon Valley adage, "Fake it 'til you make it." This saying has long been the mantra of startups not only in Silicon Valley but throughout the country. I've been involved in the startup community for the…
Her ‘Shark Tank’-Inspired Side Hustle Brings in $100k Per Year
In 2020, Stephanie Jackson and her husband were expecting their second child when the pandemic struck, halting travel and miring her job as the director of study abroad at the Savannah College of Art & Design in "lots of uncertainty."With the financial reality of putting two kids into daycare fast…
7 Ways Collaboration Can Create a Successful Team
Collaboration is a powerful tool that has become increasingly essential in the modern business world. Working together with others can help drive growth, innovation and success. In this article, we will explore the importance of collaboration in today's competitive environment and provide some tips for how businesses can use it…
3 Ways to Shore Up Your Business Finances in a Tight Economy
Around the country, many small businesses are feeling the burden of inflation. Increased costs on everything from raw supplies and shipping to labor and utilities are cutting into the already razor-thin margins that many of them operate with. Add to this the threat of a looming recession and other macroeconomic…
5 Ways to Elevate Your Business With Social Proof
In today's highly competitive coaching and info-product industry, building trust and credibility is essential to stand out from the crowd and dominate your market. Amidst the noise and saturation, social proof is a powerful tool that can help you establish your reputation, eliminate objections and inspire confidence in potential customers.In…
Why the Most Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Do It Alone
Over the last several months, I have been deeply immersed in the Goldman Sachs 10k Small Businesses (10KSB) accelerator program. In partnership with Babson College, Goldman Sachs developed an in-depth curriculum that requires small business owners, or "scholars," as we are called during the program, to take a deep look…
4 Strategies to Growth in a Tough Sales Economy
A global economic downturn might be cooling a once blockbuster funding environment for startups, but don't let the gloomy headlines dent your growth ambitions. Technology advancements are reigniting investment activity and creating new opportunities for scrappy founders that can take advantage.The commercialization of large language models like ChatGPT is driving…
Google’s ‘Moonshot Factory’ Is Known for Wild, World-Changing Ideas. Here’s What It Took For One of Them to a Become a Real World Startup.
Elaine Weir is retired, which means that — apart from the swimming lessons she teaches a few times a week — she has a lot of time on her hands. So in the summer of 2019, when she saw a Facebook ad for the geothermal energy company Dandelion, she called…
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Creative Ways Startups Can Earn Funding in Tough Economic Times
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
I Asked AI to Create a Plan for a Fake Company — The Results Blew Me Away, But Not in the Way You Might Think
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
Ideas To Transform You From Good To Better To Best
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
5 Crucial Challenges Startups Must Overcome
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…