What Are Some Good Team Building Activities for a Distributed Team?

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 ...

Is Launching Multiple Startups a Good Idea?

If you are a new entrepreneur who cannot afford to invest in building multiple platforms and hire a team for each venture, stick to a single startup at first. People who own multiple businesses have spent over a decade building a career, saving capital, creating a network, and studying the foundations of sales, marketing, busine...

Which Business Has the Lowest Barrier to Entry With the Highest ROI?

"I want to start a business, not a start-up. Which business has the lowest barrier to entry with the highest ROI?" The highest possible ROI is usually related to shady deals in the gray area (or outright illegal ones). Due to the nature of those business ventures, ROI is massive simply because the stakes are high and you can easily get ca...

Do SEO Plugins Dramatically Slow Down the WordPress Site?

Most of the existing SEO plugins add some processing and requests to every page load, but it usually isn’t that bad. In any proper setup, caching plays an important role in processing the page generation ones (PHP evaluation + the corresponding database queries to pull the right data based on user capabilities, taxonomies, U...

What Should I Avoid in Order to Focus as an Entrepreneur?

Avoid receiving any sort of feedback, encouragement, or criticism without filtering it carefully. Entrepreneurship is still a contradictory topic. It’s common to receive two types of feedback: Friends or other dreamers who assure you that your business is a unicorn. Concerned family members and close friends who are afraid that y...

What Is the First Step in Achieving Your Goal?

Set a hard deadline that is realistic. This is the only required step for achieving a goal. As long as the goal is achievable, you allocate enough time, and ensure that there is no way around it—it will happen. Do you want to be able to do 80 push-ups and you can only do 20? Set the goal in 6 months from now, sort out your eating an...

Are Online Mentoring Groups Effective?

I have elaborated on the difference between online and on-site mentorship programs here: Mario Peshev's answer to What are some unique challenges to mentoring people online vs. in person? Other than that, online mentoring groups could be effective.  They offer unparalleled accessibility, allowing mentees from around the world to conne...