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

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...

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

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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