I’m spending every night staring at the ceiling wondering when this whole startup world is going to come crashing down on me. It’s starting to invade my waking and non-waking mind. How do I unwind all of this so I can just focus on actually building my startup and not how it will explode?
Resources
What a Market Downturn Means for Startups
I’m hearing all of this news about how the startup market is starting to implode and as a Founder I should be freaking out. What’s happening right now and how should I be responding?
How Frustrated Were You the Last Time You Imported a Spreadsheet?
What if onboarding customer data was astonishingly easy? All of the inconsistent data coming from your customers is fundamentally inputted by humans. A data onboarding solution allows you to accept files just as they are from all of your customers and deliver on a world-class customer experience.
When Founders No Longer Have Any Upside
“I thought I was doing the right thing by raising more and more money, but now I’m stuck with so little equity that my upside is super limited. On top of that, the probability that we’ll ever reach the exit we need to (in my lifetime) to make this worthwhile is a long shot. What are my options here?”
The Value of Many Tiny Financial Wins
Can I get rich without an exit? There’s a chance that my startup may never be the next Facebook or Google, but does that mean I’m resigned to being the salt mines of startup life always wishing I was them? I want that good life too — so what’s my option?
The No Man’s Land of Funding
It’s becoming pretty clear we’re not going to be able to raise our next round of funding. I feel like no one is giving any clear direction about what to do from here. Do we keep waiting? Shut it down? Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about this?
How to Find Minimum Viable Happiness
I know that someday my startup can achieve all of my life dreams and make me happy (right?). But right now everything is a mess and I feel like crap. What can I do to get my head around some goals that can get me fired up again to press on?
Inside the Mind of Gen Z
Everyone is trying to understand Gen Z — what they’re thinking, how they’re interacting. The fascination makes sense: Gen Zers represent 35% of the global population, $143bn in spending power, and are influencing tech trends and culture at a more rapid pace than ever before. Meagan Loyst of Lerer Hippeau surveyed the group on their likes, dislikes, feelings, and predictions — and here’s what she found.
The Top 4 Things to Study When Hiring New Employees
t is clearly a job seekers market right now, which affords them the opportunity to take the best of competing offers, even if they have already accepted a previous offer, and “ghost” their new employer by never showing up on their first day, which is happening in record numbers and is not a cool move, at all So, to save you all the tedious effort of having to go back and restart your recruiting efforts after making bad offers or hires, it is important you get it right in the first place.
What Does Founder Success Feel Like?
I’m so busy being heads down trying to build my startup that I don’t even know what success would look and feel like. When a Founder is finally successful, where does that feeling of accomplishment come from, and do we even notice when it happens?
6 Ways to Expand Your Thinking to the Next Big Thing
Many of the startup investors I know are disappointed that so few of the startup ideas they see are really innovative or disruptive. Most of us are incremental or linear thinkers, and we miss the really big opportunities, like the next smartphone or space travel. That ability to “see around the next corner” seems to be […]