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Advice -
An original idea that benefits a burgeoning industry is potentially worth a lot of money, but most entrepreneurs will admit that innovation is merely one of the key factors behind launching a successful startup. Shrewd timing and...
Lifestyle -
The rise of the entrepreneurial class is an observable economic phenomenon. Whether because of a lingering recession, the explosion of technological innovation, or the hacking philosophy gone mainstream, many of you may find...
Advice - There’s no shame in following a passion, even if it leads you into a field that isn’t growing by leaps and bounds and won’t make you a billionaire. On the other hand, if you don’t know exactly what your passion is, there’s no...
Funding - You’ve come up with a great idea for a business, gotten the plans in order, found others to help you, and the company is finally starting to have some success. The hard part is over, right? Well, maybe not. For many young...
Resources -
The cloud. It’s the much-talked-about, often misunderstood darling of the tech world. But, despite how much the cloud is talked about, it still remains a bit of a mystery to many. It’s often not clear just what “the...
Management - You may think you know what you’re getting yourself into when you launch a startup, but really, there is so much you just can’t understand until you’ve got some time under your belt. Unfortunately, the business could very well...
Management - Last week, week shared some insights from the Valve Employee Handbook on how to hire and retain employees. This week, it is only fair that we share some insights on the firing side as well.
Startups in today’s tech...
Management - Last April, Valve’s employee handbook was leaked online and quickly spread to the far corners of the Internet. The reason? The handbook illustrates, in detail, what makes Valve such an unorthodox company. The company’s makeup...
Management -
Staffing a startup is an art. And while you’ll find dozens of different theories on right-fit hiring in the blogs, books and podcasts of seasoned HR reps and startup founders, there are two words you’re mostly like to find in...
Management - Sometimes, being a good leader means doing things that employees and even you might not like and that might make you a bit less popular, or even hated, around the office. In fact, some of the most successful CEOs in history have been...
Funding - The best scene in It’s a Wonderful Life is the last one, where all the townspeople whose keisters George Bailey saved in the bank run show up and all pitch in money to help George avoid jail time for bank fraud. They didn’t call...
AlleyTalk -
For a new generation growing up in the midst of a global recession, we tend to view entrepreneurship as less of a career path and more of a lifestyle choice. After all, how many people do you know who would gladly work endless hours...
Tech - How did Apple rise through the ranks to become the world’s most profitable tech company? As it turns out, good timing and shrewd planning have played as much of a role as innovative thinking for the Silicon Valley...
Resources - Although crowdfunding is a relatively new phenomenon, we’ve seen an incredible rush of projects that have found success through this funding route.
Design projects, movies, even a Nikola Tesla museum have all been made possible...
