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What I've learned over the last two decades about the difference between personal success and business success and why that difference is so important.
When entrepreneurs come up against a skill they don't have experience with, they tend to just not do it. What they should be doing is taking their best hack. Here's why.
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There's one leadership skill that I still suck at - even after 20+ years of founding and leading companies. And I'm not alone. I see this take leaders down repeatedly.
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The transition from startup family to corporate machine creates a culture that relegates the best talent to quiet background cog. They become a silent minority. Then they leave.
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Her startup had raised $3 million, but deadlines weren't being met, runway was burning, investors were frustrated, and customers were angry.
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I've been building and advising no-code startups for years now. And if you want your no-code business to take off, you have to treat no-code as a tool, not a business idea.
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When your startup idea isn't investable, here's what to do, based on my own experience as well as helping dozens of founders, both first-timers and repeat founders.
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I'm not the first to tell you to rest every once in a while. But maybe I'll be the first to give you justification for why it makes great business sense.
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The only way to succeed -- with a startup or any other pursuit -- is to understand what makes you different and be faithful to it. Let's get weird.
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Raising money is a long, difficult process and will take at least six months or more. How do startup CEOs raise money without company growth falling off a cliff?
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What you do or don't do to tap the value of your email list might end up being the difference in eventually finding that elusive product market fit.
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True for any company, team, or project - leadership has three distinct phases. The trick is getting to the right one and staying there as long as you can.
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The barrier to entry for standing up a digital marketplace has fallen. But just because marketplaces startups are easy to start doesn't mean they'll be successful.
People who create reports really like to create reports. People who need to read reports really hate to read reports. This is reaching a tipping point.
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