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12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder

  • September 15, 2014

What is the #1 quality you should you look for in a startup co-founder and why?

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1. Alignment of Values

KEVON SABER“Everything changes except character. Product ideas, market dynamics and even founder competencies morph over time. Character (what someone deeply values) changes at a comparatively infinitesimal pace. Diversity of gender, age and training can lead to higher team performance. In contrast, a divergence of values makes almost every ingredient of team performance harder to grasp. For example, agreeing on objectives becomes massively harder if two co-founders value different objectives.”

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8 Catastrophic Startup Mistakes And How To Fix Them

  • June 20, 2014

Part of a founder’s job is to make sure the company always gets the best possible deal — whether it’s in negotiating valuation, evaluating employees’ stock/salary or even choosing a law firm. Unfortunately, this frugal nature often has repercussions. Instead of thinking transactionally, think about these…

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4 Advantages To Starting Up With A Co-Founder

  • June 6, 2014

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it will not be possible to clone yourself during your lifetime. Major bummer, right? That means that uttering, “If only there were two of me, I could get this done so much faster!” under your breath is never going to be a viable solution for getting something done…

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11 Ways To Measure Employee Morale

  • September 16, 2013

If one of my team members is either pouring everything she’s got into a side project or she doesn’t have one at all, I consider that a warning sign for bad morale. I go through my team’s side projects on a regular basis and, as long as there seems to be balance between what they’re doing for me and what…

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Should You Start A Business With Or Without A Co-Founder?

  • July 19, 2013

One of the many dilemmas faced by people who want to start their own business is to find the right co-founder. If you can work only the business side of a business, you have a choice of either finding a technical co-founder or hiring an employee. If you are a technical person, you want to work with…

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How Can A Non-Tech Startup Co-Founder Provide Value?

  • June 13, 2013

Being able to code has become an essential part of many businesses, and not having this golden skill has been seen to put otherwise strong and effective businesspeople at a disadvantage. However, there is no reason a non-technical senior staff member or even a startup co-founder can’t add value to your…

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ContentForest: Your Source For Awesome Writers

  • June 13, 2013

At the end of last year I had the awesome opportunity to see firsthand what’s going on in the startup scene in Santiago, Chile. I discovered that – thanks to the government-run accelerator program named (aptly) Start-Up Chile – there’s a burgeoning, bustling, badass hive of entrepreneurs down there creating…

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Ace The Markets With Wall St. Cheat Sheet

  • June 5, 2013

The economy has delivered a number of smackdowns in recent years. Damien Hoffman decided to help people pick themselves back up and stand tall. Building on previous startup success and his experience in investment banking, he co-founded the Wall St. Cheat Sheet, a financial media company meant to…

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Justin Spring, Co-Founder, BringShare.com And Adept Marketing

  • May 22, 2013

What’s the single best piece of business advice that helped shape who you are as an entrepreneur today, and why? “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. I first read TGR while struggling to build…