If you want to stay competitive, open communication and widespread understanding should be your top priorities. We’re currently in the midst of what people are calling,...
Fundraising is practically like working a second job. Fundraising is a job in itself. From the outside, raising money for your startup seems like an easy...
Many founders today go about making these critical early hiring decisions the wrong way. Namely, they lend too much credence to intellectual horsepower. As a founder,...
Liking someone isn't enough to decide whether or not to make them an offer.
Finding a problem within a business can actually be a good thing. Because once you’ve identified it, you can solve it. And by solving your problems,...
Before you fully commit to bootstrapping (even if just for a year to validate your market), there are a few important things you should know. There’s...
At the end of the day, success is always the result of who can adjust to the demands of the market faster. When you’re building a...
Parkinson’s Law says, “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,” and I’ve seen that to be too true. Company-wide meetings are a huge...
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. I’ve found myself in leadership positions starting from a very young age. As a kid, I was a Boy Scout...
Humans generally learn through trial and error. But it benefits us to learn through the trial and errors of others as much as we can. Those...
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...