Winston Ibrahim
When it comes to building a consumer goods product, conventional wisdom (especially in Silicon Valley) is to go all in...
Brandon Metcalf
Businesses fail every day for a number of reasons. There’s no market for the product or service being sold Incorrect...
Chuck Ciarlo
Robert Estes
Matt Klassen
Winston Ibrahim
Matt Klassen
In March 2020, the largest “work-from-home” experiment in history began. The moment entire companies moved their workforces remote, business owners...
Chuck Ciarlo
Hailey Curtis
Matt Klassen
Alex Tsepko
Winston Ibrahim
Brandon Metcalf
Laurence Tindall
Brandon Metcalf
Laurence Tindall
Laurence Tindall
Brandon Metcalf
Brian DeWyer
Winston Ibrahim
Brian DeWyer
Charlie Katz
Winston Ibrahim
Kelly Oriard
Any founder will tell you that raising money is a trial-by-fire process. We recently closed our seed round for our venture, Slumberkins, raising $2.8 million led...
Brandon Metcalf
There’s a false belief a lot of startup founders have, and it’s that at a certain point, “everything gets easier.” I was just having this conversation...
Winston Ibrahim
Company culture isn’t something you “create.” What I mean is, you don’t set the rules or write up a company handbook and then all of a...
Michael de la Maza
We’ve all been part of a group training session where you walk away feeling like your time was wasted. More often than not, you may have...
Brad Nardick
A few weeks ago, we hired a young woman to be a cashier at one of our company’s stores. Our company is The Bazaar, Inc., and...
Nooshin Yazhari
Building a company intranet today is a much more straightforward process than it used to be. Long before Office 365 and SharePoint Online became widely-used platforms,...
Brandon Metcalf
I’m no stranger to raising money. As a founder, I have gone through all sorts of fundraising experiences. In 2011, I started a company called Talent...
Siddharth Taparia
For the past few years, the technology world has slowly been evangelizing the role voice will play in our everyday lives. It began in 2014, when...
Alex Tsepko
As artificial intelligence has been slowly becoming more and more of a mainstream term, there has been a question rumbling in the art community: “Will AI...
Winston Ibrahim
Our planet has a serious plastic problem. At this point, the stats are difficult to comprehend. We consume 500 million plastic straws per day in America;...
Praveen Tipirneni
There’s a Confucius quote that says, “We have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” This quote came to mind...
Nooshin Yazhari
There has been a surge of adoption in companies using Microsoft Office 365. For context, of the 81% of total organizations that have shifted to cloud...
Kelly Oriard
The holidays can be a difficult time of year. As a counselor, holidays are sensitive times in my practice (and in my life personally). Research shows...
Shireen Jaffer
Hiring for “culture fit” is an age-old debate in the world of recruiting, and a simple Google search on the topic paints a stark picture of...
Siddharth Taparia
One of my first jobs out of business school was at a company called BusinessObjects. I joined the team as a consultant. In reality, “consulting” meant...
Ed Michael Reggie
Recruitment for your board of directors is a hugely important step in the startup journey—one that really shouldn’t be taken lightly. Sure, your startup will likely...
Stuart McLeod
People are the most important thing in all industries influenced by technology. But your company is only as good as the tools you use to run...
Brandon Metcalf
I learned first hand how difficult it is to get forecasting right—especially at a startup. At my first company, we were guided by a steadfast belief...
Callie Christensen
My co-founder Kelly and I have been best friends since we were 14. We graduated from the same high school. We both went off to play...
Evgeny Tchebotarev
We all know reading is important, but for those charged with leading, inspiring, and invigorating others, it’s essential. Reading, after all, is one primary way people...
Joe Gardner
The one sport that taught me the most about leading teams and building companies was hockey––a game of tenacity, toughness,...
Richard Newman
Life-changing conversations don’t always happen after a presentation in the workplace—they happen in elevators, hallways, and break rooms. Your greatest...
Brian D. Evans
People with an atypical mindset use what doesn’t work as a way to find opportunities that everyone else is ignoring.
Sami Rusani
Whether you’re giving an impromptu sales pitch or trying to make friends in a bar, your ability to connect is...
JC Grubbs
A strong privacy policy is a serious competitive advantage for a business. After all, if data is your stock and...
Minutes Staff
Here’s why storytelling, patient data-driven marketing, and—imagine this—offline marketing need to be part of your marketing strategy in 2019 and...
Jeff Byers
I told myself that not only would I work in the offseason, but I would find a job that required...
Bibop Gresta
Sustainability isn’t just about how the product is created. It’s also very much about how the product is destroyed. This...
Joe Gardner
If you’re an investor, know that these pieces must be in place before you invest in a startup: The founders...
Minutes Staff
Work-life balance means something different to everyone, but we all need it to be the best we can both at...
Matthew Jones
We all deal with major life changes—it’s part of being human. Whether it’s death, changing jobs, re-locating, or another significant event, each...
Matthew Jones
Capitalism turns people into commodities. People, in all of their complexities, get reduced to titles, net worth, and are only viewed...
Dan Moore
The other morning I woke to a bombardment of millennial tropes. They came from my timelines and news feeds, my...
Nicolas Cole
You’ve heard the term “mid-life crisis.” It’s that time in every person’s life when they wake up one morning, their...
Nicolas Cole
The term "thought leadership" is a fairly new one in the marketing world.
Nicolas Cole
A resume is nothing but a list of skills. Here's what's missing.
Nicolas Cole
This is precisely why improvement and growth is a process--not a destination.
Nicolas Cole
This 1 shift will immediately put you in a better mental state.
Nicolas Cole
It's not your company blog, that's for sure.
Nicolas Cole
That person with 1M followers? They might not be as influential as you think...