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Acquiring the right business skills, although extremely crucial, is a small percentage of what an entrepreneur (or a business owner) has to deal with on a daily basis. Let’s say that you are a plumber. You’ve learned the craft and want to work independently. Great! You have the skills and are ready to start installing and main...

Risk management is the key factor I would try to gauge before picking between working on five $1 million business ideas or just one $10 million business idea. A promising, well-established $10M idea that’s easy to get into, hire for, and get funding for will be my preference. Managing one business is easier and all operational expenses ...

Pet projects, course projects, community projects, and internships. Engaging in or working on these activities can definitely help you land your first job—and, even entry-level positions at your dream company. A pet project is something you’re passionate about. You start small and keep building on top. Working on a pet project tea...

Reverse-engineer what you respect in other world-known marketing consultants out there and the rest will follow. Start by asking the right questions: What have they done? Where do you see them? What are they known for? What interviews with them feature often? Here are some examples from the top of my head: Keynote speakers or reg...

I’m not a CPA and local/federal regulations vary, but there are several common reasons why entrepreneurs do that. First off, entrepreneurs are people, and people have personal expenses. Keeping a clear track record of regular income allows for covering non-business expenses without receiving embarrassing questions from the government. ...

Excluding personal topics around common interests (which is actually the case in most real-world conversations), business talk often revolves around specific pain points or new opportunities that are lesser known. In terms of problems, there are dozens of common business pain points that tend to be evergreen - matters around management,...

Staff augmentation is the synergy between external resources and the core team operating as employees or contractors within an organization. When the core team needs additional help, augmentation is a necessity to adhere to internal processes, follow protocol, sit in scheduled meetings, and ensure that the entire team—internal and exter...

Stress management is a combination of juggling priorities and energy balance. It’s a sophisticated topic by itself. My best advice for people dreaming of entrepreneurship is to join a fast-paced environment that is stress-tolerant. Handling stress is a skill by itself. Coming unprepared for entrepreneurship may be a massive cult...

For every large group of business owners and founders looking for a technical partner, there is an equally large group of technical people wondering where the business folks are. Regardless of whether you're selling to a client, pitching to an investor, looking for employees or a partner, the approach is fairly similar and this requires 3...

Being able to gather everyone together at an annual summit is definitely great, although not always possible for smaller distributed teams. How do we ensure that we remain bonded as we establish a solid team? Here are several activities that we incorporate into our workflow: 1. Regular group chats - We have a weekly Monday kick-off ...