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Charles Edge

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The Value Of Transparency

Transparency doesn’t come naturally in a startup. We start a company thinking we need to shield employees from all the things that steal...

Charles Edge

3 min read

5 Accounting Concepts For Startups

To be a successful startup founder, we don’t need to be an accounting expert; we can outsource that. But we do need a solid grasp of...

Making Decisions Through New Perspectives

Matt Raskin

5 min read

Making Decisions Through New Perspectives

Sometimes We Don't Know... Life provides us with a range of experiences - good, bad, happy, sad, confusing, frustrating, exciting & even...

Charles Edge

10 min read

Beginning CRMs for Startups

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management and is a piece of software organizations use to store information about customers and...

Performance Conversations: Aligning Performance, Growth & Priorities

Matt Raskin

5 min read

Performance Conversations: Aligning Performance, Growth & Priorities

Purpose: Performance Conversations Performance conversations are the foundation for effective and healthy organizations to exist & grow....

Evaluating The Technology Stack In Startups

Charles Edge

3 min read

Evaluating The Technology Stack In Startups

We often start building a company and the technology that a company delivers and it just kind of evolves over time. There's a general...

Charles Edge

5 min read

Professional Services As A Service

As our name might imply, we love bootstrappers. Services is a great way to bootstrap any company - especially a software company....

Charles Edge

11 min read

Search Engine Optimization For Startups

SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, sometimes referred to as organic search. This is where we look to increase the amount of...

Matt Raskin

4 min read

05 | Talent Foundation: Virtual Reality

Previous Post: 04 | Talent Foundations: On-boarding Employees The Future... We either progress or regress; there is little room for...

Creating A Platform: Overly-Simplistic API Strategies

Charles Edge

13 min read

Creating A Platform: Overly-Simplistic API Strategies

Platform. There are books like Platform Revolution and The Business Of Platforms that tell us that we want to make our products...

Quick Machine Learning Wins For Startups

Charles Edge

12 min read

Quick Machine Learning Wins For Startups

Machine learning is one of those things that practically every investor seems to ask about these days. The reason is that there is so...

04 | Talent Foundations: Onboarding Employees

Matt Raskin

4 min read

04 | Talent Foundations: Onboarding Employees

Getting Started New employees experience waves of new people, places, tools, processes, and languages as they acclimate into their new...

Charles Edge

4 min read

The Rule of 40

There are a lot of different types of companies and business models. One of the most popular these days is SaaS-based solutions that...

03 | Talent Foundation: Recruiting - Qualification, Flow & Talent Selection

Matt Raskin

7 min read

03 | Talent Foundation: Recruiting - Qualification, Flow & Talent Selection

Previous Post: Recruiting: Planning, Prep & Talent Attraction Our previous post focused on establishing the foundations to clarify,...

Learn 14 Critical Startup Skills… For Free!

Charles Edge

6 min read

Learn 14 Critical Startup Skills… For Free!

Degrees from top universities can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a savvy founder can get a more specific, targeted...

Methodologies To Calculate the Value of a Company

Charles Edge

7 min read

Methodologies To Calculate the Value of a Company

A friend of mine was once asked how much his house was worth at dinner. He said “I guess whatever someone will pay for it.” I was pretty...

02 | Talent Foundations : Recruiting - Planning, Prep & Talent Attraction

Matt Raskin

6 min read

02 | Talent Foundations : Recruiting - Planning, Prep & Talent Attraction

Previous Post: Talent Foundations: Art & Science It's now time to shift our focus towards identifying, attracting, qualifying, and...

Charles Edge

4 min read

Tips On What Kind Of Business To Start

There are 5 main types of organizations that are founded. Each comes with positives and negatives and there’s really no perfect formula...

Matt Raskin

6 min read

Talent: Buy, Borrow or Build

The Balance Nothing impacts organizational performance and culture like the people we select to become a part of our company. Ensuring we...

Dealing With The Distractions In A Startup

Charles Edge

4 min read

Dealing With The Distractions In A Startup

Distractions can destroy our productivity. But leading a startup means there’s a constant barrage of things that need to be handled....