Thought Leaders
The Super Successful Have These 5 Attributes
Inside the minds of the successful: Uncover the five crucial characteristics that drive achievement at the highest level.
Entrepreneur Voices
Business News
Three Acclaimed Performers Share the Pivots They’re Making to Succeed
Whether their craft is music, voice, or magic, solopreneur performers are adapting to the times.
Thought Leaders
22 Qualities That Make a Great Leader
Want to inspire others? Study these characteristics and the wise words of leaders who strive to embody them.
Entrepreneurs
8 Great Tricks for Reading People’s Body Language
Research shows that 55 percent of communication comes from body language. Learn how to decode it.
Business Funding
I Took 400 Meetings With Investors to Get My Startup Funded. Here’s What I Learned.
Here are five strategies that early stage entrepreneurs can adopt as they begin fundraising for their company.
By Dana Loberg
Thought Leaders
How to Use Psychology to Get Investors to Close When You Want Them to
Deadlines can trigger FOMO and FOMO can trigger signing the papers.
By Alex Gold
Business Funding
7 Reasons to Never Send Your Deck to an Investor Before You Meet in Person
Without you, your deck is just a memo with diagrams.
By Alex Gold
Business Funding
Improve Your Odds of Getting Funded by Matching Your Pitch to the VC’s Investment Pattern
It's the often unseen trigger -- that invisible 'something' -- that gets them to bite. Seek it, use it, close the deal.
By Alex Gold
Business Funding
5 Reasons Investors Are Ignoring Your Business — And How You Can Get Their Attention
It might be your business plan, or your space in the market. Or, it could be you.
Business Accounting
The Science of the First Impression: 5 Elements of a Great First Impression
The first impression informs how you're thought of well beyond the first moment, so get it right.
By Carolyn Sun
Building a Business
Why You Need a Million-Dollar Pitch Before Your Start a Business
You're not ready to launch your business until you can explain in 20 seconds or less how it helps someone.
Business Funding
12 Key Strategies to a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
Crowdfunding has witnessed some spectacular fails. Don't let your project be one of them.
By AJ Agrawal
Building a Business
From Backers to Buyers: How Kickstarter Helped Me Launch a Product the Traditional Way
Here are five things I learned from crowdfunding that prepared me to take the leap.
Business Funding
What Are VCs Really Trying to Say? Here Are 3 Common Conversations Translated For You.
Use these translations to decode the three most common messages to understand what your investors are actually telling you.
Business Funding
If You Do Any of These 3 Things in Your Pitch, Investors Will Know You’re Full of Hot Air
Avoid the dreaded "balloon pitch."
By Neal Dempsey
Thought Leaders
8 Solutions for Managing a Passive-Aggressive Team
When people are unhappy but afraid to say so, it's a management problem.
Entrepreneurs
10 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You’re Really Not Feeling It
When your business is small and your challenges are big, success depends on your willingness to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Entrepreneurs
Are You Self-Aware? 5 Key Traits You Need to Have to Be a Great Entrepreneur.
Ask how you can improve yourself on a daily basis.
Business Funding
8 Ways to Win Over Investors for Your Startup
Unless you are Elon Musk, raising capital is one of the hardest things you will ever have to do as a founder or CEO.
By Jeremy Bloom
Building a Business
Invoicing Etiquette for Small Business Owners
If ever there was a time for being firm but polite, and patient but insistent, it is when you are owed money for work done.
By John Rampton
Thought Leaders
26 Founders Share What Their Worst Boss Taught Them
You can learn from even the most frustrating experiences.
By Nina Zipkin
Business Funding
Get To The Point! What Does Your Business Do?
To be successful, be succinct.
By Tim Denning
Building a Business
5 Simple Tips You Can Use to Capture the Attention of Millennials
Every business wants to get millennials on its side. Here's how you can do it.
Building a Business
How to Develop a Positive Relationship With Failure
If at first you don't succeed, figure out why before you try, try again.
By Lena Requist
Entrepreneurs
Science Shows How Creativity Can Reduce Stress
When you're stressed out, try writing a song. It can improve your health.
Entrepreneurs
To Thrive in Work and Life, Here’s What Science Says You Need
Do you have these traits?
By Nina Zipkin
Entrepreneurs
Why You Should Stop Saying Sorry, According to Science
New research shows that apologies can have negative effects.
By Rose Leadem