Archive for May 2018
Valuing Your Business
To Create Value In Your Business You Must Know This Do you know what your business is worth to an investor or a bank? Do you care? More importantly, do you really know what drives the value of your business to grow? And should you care? If you said revenue growth you are wrong. Just…
Read MoreA Gem from Noah Fleming – The Stewardship Award
Last week my daughter was given The Stewardship Award at her school for her love of the environment. When I asked her why she thought she was getting the award, she surprised me by not just telling me how she loved animals and the outdoors but proceeded to give me very specific examples of the small, yet…
Read MoreA Gem from Paul Singh – You Might Have the Best Start-up in the World, But…
You know, I’ve been sitting here thinking about that email I sent you an hour ago… and I want to clarify the second tip I mentioned to you: You might have the best startup in the world… but if the investor across the table doesn’t get it, the deal’s not happening. If they can’t relate with…
Read MoreVideo – We Are All in the Business of Collecting Cash
You are in the business of collecting cash and success is defined as putting money in the bank.
Read MoreVideo – Mitch’s Pocket Guide to a Great Business Plan
Mitch introduces his pocket guide which contains all the great information included on this site.
Read MoreA Gem from CJ Cornell – T-Ball Entrepreneurship
The Lone-Wolf Startup? Entrepreneurship evokes images of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos – but the reality is that the lone-wolf genius with the change-the-world idea is rare. Today, it’s almost impossible to build a startup alone. It takes a community of shared knowledge and of shared resources. A community that is more than just…
Read MoreA Gem from Noah Fleming – Nobody Likes to be Micromanaged.
You can’t blame them. Nobody wants to have somebody standing over their shoulder, telling them EXACTLY what to do, and leaving no autonomy. Nobody likes having a backseat driver screaming at them at the slightest deviation from the way that the manager thinks it *should* be done (regardless of the effectiveness of the approach.) I…
Read MoreA Gem from Noah Fleming – The Hierarchy of Wonders
If you’ve been reading the Tuesday tidbits for any length of time, then you’ve no doubt heard me talk about The Hierarchy of Horrors before. If you need a refresher, you can check out this video here , or read this post here, or read about it any of my books here. In a nutshell, The Hierarchy of Horrors is a process for…
Read MoreA Gem from Noah Fleming – Differences in Productivity per Employee
I was working with a company not long ago where the president was trying to figure out what accounted for the vast differences in productivity per employee. They’d just introduced some new, transparent metrics showing the different effectiveness levels of everybody on the team. Some who were less efficient than others were burning themselves out…
Read MoreA Gem from Paul Singh – The Real Risk
Entrepreneurs often walk into office hours thinking about money. They’re worried about how much they need to raise, what the terms will look like and how to meet more investors. Investors walk into those same office hours thinking about sales. They’re worried about whether the company has sold anything, how many potential customers there might…
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