My company just had its midyear reviews.  I was pleased to see that most of the feedback I got as CEO was positive. People especially appreciated...

Acquisitions are a necessary part of innovation and growth—especially for large companies. Large companies—especially those that are publicly traded—have immediate revenue responsibilities. But they don’t have...

People love to spend time on prioritization.  After all, if you don’t spend time prioritizing business initiatives, you won’t be making progress in the right directions,...

I didn’t initially set out to build a tech company.  As a content researcher and curator in the advertising space, clients would ask me for images...

I owe our senior leadership team’s cohesion in part to comedian Mike Birbiglia. For our company’s first remote offsite, my Chief of Staff suggested hiring Mike...

Advisory boards can have tremendous power. But many companies don’t know how to use them. The most common error is viewing your advisory board as a...

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) bubble is bursting.  Back in the halcyon days of 2021, when markets were bullish and NFTs were valuable, BNPL was...

Too many companies think their employees can’t handle the truth. There’s this idea that the ideal founder/CEO should only share a purely optimistic vision with their...

PatientFi just celebrated its 5-year anniversary. And while we have venture backing today, in the beginning, we used a mostly bootstrapped approach: keeping our personnel lean,...

At this point, the recession we’ve all been worried about seems inevitable. Inflation has been climbing since September 2021, jumping from 5.25% to 8.28% during that period—the highest...

Last year’s biotech IPOs aren’t exactly going as planned.  111 biotech companies went public last year, representing more than $15 billion in cumulative stock. Of those, only...

The more money people make, the fewer kids they have. Shocking statistics released earlier this year showed that the U.S. birth rate was highest in families with...

Consumers don’t like large cash payments.  In a time where streaming platforms, food delivery apps, at-home exercise bikes, and more offer monthly subscriptions, we’ve all fallen...

All too often, I hear friends and colleagues say they can only afford to focus on one thing at a time. Many people say their career...

Consider a relay race. For each team, four runners run 100-meter legs. If one team’s runners each take 10 seconds to run their leg of the...

Providing a product is not enough. You need to enable your customers to master it. Google’s Adwords certification was a game-changer for advertising careers. Why? Because...

GE Healthcare is making a big bet on outpatient care.  The legacy company has confirmed a partnership with healthtech operation Medtronic aimed at facilitating the shift...

Before the Roman Empire, there was the Roman Republic. And up until about the third century B.C., the Roman Republic was a fairly egalitarian place. The...

Which would you prefer: a handful of big-check investors or an army of small-check investors? Depending on your circumstances, you may not have a choice. In...

Inflation is as bad as it’s been since the early 80s. It’s not hard to see why. The pandemic caused major supply chain challenges as countries all...