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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...


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...


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....


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...


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...


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...


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...

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,...


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...


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...

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...


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....
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