Funding rounds are crucial to company growth and product development, but they can also have tremendous benefits when it comes to exposure to potential customers, partners, investors and even employees. It should be a proverbial coverage “slam dunk,” but with rounds growing in size…
Equity is often handed out like play money. Then it becomes valuable and the knives come out.
I get the same panicked email about once a month, without fail.
A founder writes in all freaked out because someone is now holding…
Many of us are so busy with our day-to-day lives, making short-term decisions left and right, that we don’t pay much attention to the long term — to our futures. When we do think about it, we often put off doing things that we ought to do — like saving and investing for our retirement years…
f you have home internet and didn't buy your modem or modem/router device, you're likely paying a monthly rental fee to your internet provider. These fees can add up quickly, especially if you've been with the same company for years.
Many people have no idea they're paying a modem rental...
Outside of the horrendously greedy, there are very few people who would argue that generosity is not a good value to have. When you see someone give money to a homeless person, it leaves you with a sense of hope in humanity. Even if you’re the overly cynical type, you might think…
I've been doing startups for 22 years, but it took me the first five or six to appreciate how difficult it is to build, grow and sustain a business. Like most people, I saw challenges as something bad and sought to avoid them, but some were unavoidable — the 1999 internet bubble, for example,...
With the contraction of the global economy, businesses are using all the tools they can get their hands on to remain ahead of the competition or simply stay afloat. As a business grows, one of the things it will eventually have to deal with is employee turnover. However, the cost of replacing…