Finding a new job is a job in itself – and so is closing the deal, when it comes to funding. Switch is a mobile job marketplace that allows tech and media professionals to search discreetly, browse intuitively and connect instantly with real hiring managers – and the company just raised a $1.4M seed round […]
Entrepreneurs Need a New Adaptive Innovator Mindset
One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction and thus are the least likely to get external funding. So some entrepreneurs stick with incremental solutions, avoiding more transformational […]
The Snowball Effect
I spend a lot of my time advising and mentoring entrepreneurs, including coaching at three awesome accelerators. Since almost all the companies I work with are at the pre-seed stage, I end up hearing the same questions quite a lot. They are, in order of frequency: How do I convince my co-founder to quit their job and join […]
Identifying Your Minimum Viable Customer: A Detailed Walkthrough
To demonstrate the process of identifying your Minimum Viable Customer that I described in my post here, I’ve created this simplified example of a semi-fictional company (semi-fictional in that it is based on my experiences with several real-life companies but I’ve changed many details for confidentiality purposes). As a reminder, the 5 steps to identify […]
How to Become a Networking Machine in 4 Easy Steps
Don’t believe anyone that tells you that hard work is the way to get ahead. That helps tremendously as does just having a brilliant idea at the right time. But the real secret to getting ahead is networking. Your contacts are what will take your career to the next level. That random friend of so-and-so […]
“What’s your plan? Forget the Plan” A Post inspired by Mark Cuban
What’s your plan? We have heard this annoying question in various forms throughout our lives. When we’re kids in elementary school, adults would ask “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Parents asked us this question as we tried to navigate our way through high school and college. The options for paths […]