“You know you’re doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.” (The Big Idea by Donny Deutsch) Entrepreneurship is not easy, and it is not for everyone. The reason lies in the exact quote: putting Sundays in the same phrase as Fridays. Just as this award-winning article on Inc. states, there is a...
It’s no surprise many entrepreneurs dream of becoming millionaires. After all, the startups we always hear about are the wildly successful ones. Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the top 20 richest people in the world after starting Facebook in his college dorm room, and Jeff Bezos is worth billions after starting Amazon out of his garage. But most...
This cool infographic by Technorian.com highlights 56 reasons that can result in demise of a startup. Those are complemented well by 45 experts from around the world with their words of wisdom. Hopefully, you can learn many things from it about how to move ahead rightly with your startup. Here are the most common business...
What skills do you need to be a successful entrepreneur? Here are 10 things you can start working on now! Check out the infographic below. Infographic by: taskworld
In 2013, startup guru Steve Blank published an article in Harvard Business Review, titled Why The Lean Startup Changes Everything, in which he argued that, rather than follow the rigid concepts taught at business schools, entrepreneurs who seek to start a business take a much different path. “Start-ups are not smaller versions of large companies,” he wrote….
You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. Startups are appealing for the excitement and opportunity, but will you thrive in a less-structured, fast-paced organization? How can you evaluate whether that’s the right work culture for you?…
Coming up with a great idea, realizing it and making sure to never stop until it’s successful is one of the hardest tasks you can undertake as an entrepreneur. To help you solidify that success, I decided to try and find a way to help you ensure that your startup idea is good from the…
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is a publicly-traded consumer goods conglomerate with a market capitalization greater than the GDP of many countries. And with a portfolio of brands spanning skin care, hair care, cleaning goods, pet food and more, P&G is now under attack by a host of companies looking to inflict a ‘death by a…
“Big ideas come in small packets” Gone are the days when start-ups required heavy investment and full-fledged product development and an expensive workforce. Lean start-up is an idea that reduces the hassle of complete product development. It allows the entrepreneur to test the efficacy of a product by launching a MVP (Minimum viable product). A…
2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” will be “What are your unit economics?” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps…