By now I’m sure you’ve heard that storytelling plays a HUGE part in your marketing. And with good reason. Done right, storytelling has the power to attract investors, create raving fans, crystallize your team and puts extra zeros on your bottom line. Key word: Done right.
Conferences, summits, meetups and masterminds. All things that involve you zipping up a Samsonite, kissing your family goodbye, and investing a few thousand bucks for the chance to connect with your fellow entrepreneur (while perhaps picking up a key insight or two). And maybe you absolutely thrive at these events. Or perhaps like so many others you shrink up and
Decisions dictate outcomes. Let that one sink in for a sec, and then reflect back to the last major decision you made and how it impacted your life. Chances are, that for every major success you can point back to, you can link it to a corresponding decision that paved the path for that success to occur.
Have you ever dreamed of getting your company accepted to a startup accelerator? For many founders, getting picked by a top accelerator program feels like the holy grail of early stage entrepreneurship. Overnight, you and your team are given access to world-class mentorship, tight accountability, educational events, and primetime pitching opps. In short – all things needed to get you
Read & Grow Rich. It’s a motto I like to live by. And one that’s proven to be true when taking stock of just about every successful entrepreneur I’ve come to know in the last 20 years. But just like you can “read your way to success”, you also read your way out of a deep hole.
I hope you’re as lazy as I am. Which I’ll admit is a very strange thing to say. Because at first glance, “laziness” is the very antithesis of what being an entrepreneur is all about.
Are you guilty of throwing hand grenades around in your business? I am. When I reflect back on it, I prefer to imagine myself as some kinda tech-savvy Chuck Norris f*ucking up the tech world with his weapons of mass disruption. But in reality… I was a restless founder, swimming in the early success that I secretly believed I didn’t
Alright, so here’s the deal. Some entrepreneurs wear their battle scars proudly. I don’t. Not ashamed by any means. It’s just not a topic I’ve been racing to the studio to record. Until now. Because as a mentor, there’s a responsibility I carry to be transparent about my biggest f*uck ups in the hope that someone smart will heed my
Fundraising is a sexy topic. And understandably so. Because when executed properly, raising capital affords you the opportunity to scale up your startup with speed.
As entrepreneurs, we can get pretty damn obsessive about our growth and learning. Stacking our kindles with the hottest titles from the business bestseller list… … and secretly (or shamefully) looking forward to our next cross-atlantic flight where we’ll finally have a chance to catch up on all those latest reads. But as entrepreneurs, we’re also pretty devout at finding
