Building a Business
Starting a Side Business? Here are 5 Steps to Avoid Getting Fired
Take these steps to ensure your side business won't land you in legal trouble.
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Building a Business
Venture Capitalists Are More Likely to Help Startups They Can Visit Via a Direct Flight
If you want more guidance for your company, it helps to be easily accessible.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
8 Signs You’re on the Golden Path to Success
Thousands of entrepreneurs sense shining success in their futures by encountering any of these eight tell-tale signs.
By Adam Toren
Entrepreneurs
Stop Learning About Entrepreneurship and Start Doing the Work
Past a certain point reading another book about success or taking one more motivational class is simply procrastinating.
Building a Business
6 Ways to Kill Your Startup
Follow this advice, and you have a great shot at failing.
Marketing
This Startup Aims to Save Brands From Marketing Disasters
Springleap, which won a recent Techstars pitch night, aims to provides companies with actionable advice from its paid network of marketing and advertising professionals. As it struggles to gain traction, its founder looks forward to a new seed round.
By Laura Entis
Tech
Watch Entrepreneurs From Techstars NYC Pitch Their Startups at Demo Day
Altogether, 14 companies presented to an audience filled with venture capitalists and startup entrepreneurs.
By Laura Entis
Business Ideas
Beyond Meat’s CEO Thinks Chicken Can Come From Plants
'You can get hung-up on meat's origin – it comes from a chicken, cow or pig – but the other way to think about meat is its composition.'
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
How to Weather the Storms of a Startup
Running a successful startup means more rainy days than bright, clear skies. Here's how to not end up all wet.
Building a Business
This Shaving Strop Makes Razors Last Longer
A part-time singer's company provides a stylish way to save money
Building a Business
What the Founders of Job Platform WayUp Learned About Venture Funding
Having just raised $7.8 million in a Series A round, founder Liz Wessel shares what she learned from the experience.
By Alex Iskold
Thought Leaders
Want a Piece of the Fall Foliage Action? This Company Will Send You 3 Leaves for $19.99.
How one enterprising young man is attempting to commercialize autumn.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
This High-Tech Startup Is Using Science to Hack the Dress Shirt
Ministry of Supply is reengineering fabric to create higher performance clothing for the workplace.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
All in the Family: How This Father-Son Team Built a $3.5 Billion Cybersecurity Business
For many, mixing family and work is a fraught exercise. For David and Orion Hindawi, it's just smart business.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
The Do’s and Don’ts of Acing a Pitch Competition
These simple but important pointers will help you shine as you present your business to the judges.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
5 Ways to Make Time for Your Side Hustle
Here are some time-management tricks you can use to get everything done, while working a 9-to-5 job.
By Paula Rizzo
Thought Leaders
It’s Never Too Late: At 78, This Former Physicist Is Starting a Hedge Fund
Another compelling argument that age is but a number.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
The Founders of These 6 Startups Just Won a Trip to Hang With Richard Branson on His Private Island
The winners of Shopify's Build a Business contest will also be joined by Shark Tank's Daymond John, Seth Godin and Tim Ferris.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
5 Facts About Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s Often Controversial Co-Founder
Insights into the life and style of the ephemeral messaging app's controversial co-founder and CEO.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
Will Work for Praise! How Waiving Your Fee Will Grow Your Business.
The willingness to be paid in testimonials and referrals is good strategy when casting about for your first customers.
Building a Business
How BentoBox Is Ending the Era of Badly Designed Restaurant Websites
The company, which has built a platform for restaurants to create and manage their websites, recently graduated from Techstars New York City and is in the process of raising its seed round.
By Laura Entis
Business News
With More Than $3 Million in Annual Sales, Why ZinePak Decided to Go on ‘Shark Tank’
For years, co-founders Brittany Hodak and Kim Kaupe shunned outside investment. But when they were approached by the show's producers, the timing was finally right.
By Laura Entis
Entrepreneurs
10 Tips for Staying Focused From 10 Very Busy Young Entrepreneurs
The founders and co-founders of Techstars' graduating class share their favorite productivity hacks.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
Sick of Working for Someone Else? Here are 3 Things You Must Do Before You Quit Your Job.
If you want to go out on your own, there are a few things you must do before you dive in head first.
By Nick Ruiz
Building a Business
10 Guiding Principles for Growing a Startup Into a Business That Will Last
Nurturing a business requires a tolerance for uncertainty and an endless willingness to adapt to circumstances beyond your control.
Entrepreneurs
12 Ways to Find Inspiration
Founders and co-founders from Techstars' latest graduating class reveal where they turn when searching for new ideas and solutions.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
From an Extra Bedroom to 20 Stores and Counting: How Kendra Scott Created a Multimillion-Dollar Jewelry Empire
In 2002, Kendra Scott started a business selling handcrafted earrings door to door. Last year, Kendra Scott Design took in $75 million in revenue and is opening new locations across the country.
By Laura Entis