Everyone has the possibility to grow. Abraham Maslow once said, “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
It’s essential to recognize that growth is not measured solely on sales. In fact, from a monetary measure, it’s more about overall profit rather than sales…
Finance is almost as good as the government at coming up with needlessly hard to understand words for relatively easy to understand concepts. As a subset of finance, venture capital (VC) is no stranger to this phenomenon.
We recently published an article defining terms like option pool and liquidity preference. And pre-money and post-money valuation are the black…
Many aspiring entrepreneurs think the key to growing a successful company is linked to the ability to secure investor funding. For some businesses this may be true, but many successful companies have been built from the ground up with no outside investment or support, aka bootstrapping. It takes great dedication, strong work ethic,...
Achieving success at anything in life has often been associated with the mindset of survival of the fittest. While that notion holds some merit, former LSU business professor Leon C. Megginson wrote in 1963, “It’s not the strongest nor most intelligent of the species that survive. It’s the ones who are most adaptable to change.” If there was ever a quote best…
No doubt, millions of Americans weren’t prepared to lose their jobs or have their work hours reduced by the economic shutdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. It is a life-altering event that invites us all to take a hard look at our savings habits.
The personal saving rate, the amount of income left over after people…
New business success is not all about size – it’s about meeting your objectives with minimal stress and cost.
Too many of you business owners think success only means being the next Amazon, or you stress yourself out trying to be everything to every customer.
As an entrepreneur, having an effective marketing strategy in place to promote your business is essential so that your products and/or services become known to potential customers, which will result in an increase in sales.
There are many ways to promote your business, and a strategy that is becoming increasingly popular is...