I was taught that paranoia is necessary. A former CEO I worked beside handed down tips from the book “Only the Paranoid Survive,” which have stayed with me over the years. Assume anything you build will fail, assume there are flaws, assume people will leave eventually, and assume everyone make mistakes…
Possibly the most heart-crushing, tear-jerking thing anyone has ever said to me was, “Don’t pursue your passion.” Not many people can make a living off their creative passions, but I proved them wrong by working hard and never letting other people’s opinions affect my life. Now, you can view my work in…
In the acceptance speech for her Nobel Prize for Literature, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska said: “There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination…
Building a CEO brand is paramount as well as portable, meaning you can utilize it for any company you lead in the future. You want investors, customers and people in your industry to believe that when you lead a venture, it is going to be successful as much because of your talent as the product. Through…
Robert Grajewski is President of Edison Nation Medical, a healthcare product and medical device incubator and online community for people who are passionate about healthcare innovation. Grajewski, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded two online companies (Heritage Handcrafted and eCollectors) and spent five…
“A good answer today is better than a great answer tomorrow.” Being a data-driven person, there is always something for me to over-analyze. I play my own devil’s advocate disguised as a contrarian. I can quickly get lost in my own head. However, what really drives me is seeing progress and little victories…
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. It applies to so many things. For example, hiring new employees. Even if I have the money to hire, wait until it’s painful and you have no choice but to hire. You’ll save yourself having to cut back or having bigger problems on your hands down the road…
New companies often don’t know their own worth. They don’t have a real idea of how much money it takes to run a business, and they’re afraid of overpricing and scaring away potential customers. So, instead, they set prices too low. Any company can price low, but a low-price product does not build a loyal…
I first interviewed Andres Barreto last July when he had just secured $6m for his little project called Onswipe, the platform that transforms your existing content for touch web. As a bonafide serial entrepreneur and advocate for Latin American entrepreneurship and innovation, Andres now finds himself…
“I think everyone likes the romantic notion of being an entrepreneur, but few have the intestinal fortitude to make a change.” These are the words of DMI Fulfillment’s founder, Bob Klunk. An experienced businessman with over 24 years in the field, Klunk went on to launch DMI Fulfillment, a startup that…
Today, we share and consume a lot of information in a digital format of some kind. Bloggers make up one of the most rapidly growing forums for breaking news, valuable market insights, pop culture and op-eds, and they’re often the first to introduce us to trendsetting styles and unique brands. Why is
So you just closed your Series A round of funding for a cool $1.5 million. Excellent. But what if something happened to that funding (or you woke up from your entrepreneurial pipe dream)? After all, nothing is ever certain in this life. Deep. Do you have a prepared Plan B? No? Then let’s ask the
At 14, Ben Lang followed his entrepreneurial instinct to launch a business that sold other people’s items on ebay for 15% commission. Items people typically thought were junk were being sold quite easily through Ben’s business. Ben is a serial entrepreneur and today, at age 18, he’s already been…
OK, so it’s not really a secret that being happy usually attracts other great things to our lives…like the opposite sex, for instance, or a promotion in our jobs. This is equally true for the correlation between being happy and being successful. Serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis, however, says the former leads to the latter, and not the other way around.
You may be wondering what pulling teeth and breaking glass have to do with how to manage two businesses. Well, my quizzical friend let me tell you. Many entrepreneurs are working on multiple projects (or companies) at once. Often times they even have a few full-blown businesses in play. Are they master multi-taskers or just manic, insomniac, overachievers?
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For some, it can be hard to come up with a business idea, for others it’s pretty darn easy. Yanik Silver, a serial entrepreneur provides his ideas on developing the big idea. His ideas can keep your big ideas from fading into the “me too” group.
