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Your Business is Failing Because You Have a Bad Strategy. Here Are 5 Hacks for the Perfect Business Strategy
A weak business strategy could be holding you back. Follow these hacks to optimize your strategy.
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Thought Leaders
Failure: America’s Greatest Asset in Tough Times
It may hurt to see your business fail, but the United States is a country that values failure and even encourages it.
By Par Chadha
Thought Leaders
4 Strategies Entrepreneurs Use to Overcome Obstacles
Qualities like inner resilience and patience help you navigate challenges and position you to achieve your goals in business. Use those traits and follow these 4 strategies to become an effective entrepreneur, regardless of your obstacles.
By Nancy Solari
Business Funding
Want to Be A Successful Fundraiser? Follow these 6 Hacks to Attract Investors
From accepting rejection to out-bidding competition, your business must follow these fundraising practices to get investor attention and hold it.
By Max Azarov
Entrepreneurs
Want to Be a Successful Entrepreneur? Fail.
Every entrepreneur fails at something during their journey, and that's not a bad thing. Failure can be great, and here's how to harness it into upward momentum.
By Ted Wolf
Building a Business
The ‘Fail Fast’ Method Has Failed Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley's "lose big, win bigger" model for success is actually leading to more big losses, and not as many big wins. Here's the approach they should take instead.
Thought Leaders
This Business Method Takes the Risk of Failure Off the Table
By using this method in your business, you can give everyone a seat at the table and minimize risk at the same time.
Thought Leaders
James Dyson Created 5,127 Versions of a Product That Failed Before Finally Succeeding. His Tenacity Reveals a Secret of Entrepreneurship.
Sometimes wrong turns are what lead you to success.
By Aytekin Tank
Thought Leaders
A 4-Step Guide to Facing Failure and Getting Back Up
Here's how to make learning opportunities out of life's challenges.
By Ryan McGrath
Building a Business
Are You Guilty of These 3 Biases That Kill Most Startups?
Founders succumb to three common cognitive biases that sink most startups.
By Ganes Kesari
Business Ideas
7 Mistakes That Make or Break Small Businesses
Launching a new business is risky -- learn from other's mistakes and set yourself up for success.
Marketing
Being a Better Marketer Is All About Embracing Failure
Why is this so powerful and how can you achieve it?
Thought Leaders
The 6 Reasons for Business Failure, and How to Address Them
From a lack of customer awareness to loss of execution focus, how failure happens, and why you should never shy away from analyzing it.
By Lak Ananth
Thought Leaders
Dear Brit: ‘When Should You Give Up On Your Business?’
Four foolproof ways to know if it's time to throw in the towel.
By Brit Morin
Thought Leaders
How to Stop Imposter Syndrome From Killing Your Drive
Imposter Syndrome affects us all, but as an entrepreneur, your ability to manage it can make or break your business.
Building a Business
Why Success Makes No Sense Until You Embrace Your Failures
Embracing your failures doesn't mean promoting mediocrity: it is the key to achieving sustained success.
Entrepreneurs
5 Steps to Developing Resilience
The capability to rebound from disaster is neither rare nor extraordinary, though often unnoticed.
Entrepreneurs
7 Tips that Empower You to Manage the Best and Worst of Times
Here are seven tips to help you manage the ever-changing emotions of entrepreneurship.
By Jeffrey Shaw
Thought Leaders
10 Lessons About Failure That Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know
People dread failure and see it as something that's bad. This article is written to provide the tools for how to handle failure, and the perspective to show that failure can bring personal and professional growth.
Thought Leaders
Why You Have to Bet On Yourself
Failure is tough no matter what. But a person with confidence can take it in stride.
By Aytekin Tank
Thought Leaders
3 Stories That Put Failure in Its Place, and Led to My Success
Don't let the fear of failure deter you from your rightful progress. Your path to success isn't going to be perfect, but you'll get there with enough drive.
By Chris Estey
Thought Leaders
Want to Lead a Tribe of Winners? Share Your Epic Fails!
A curious statistical study has proven that in order to succeed we should be learning from those who did not.
By Natasha Zo
Building a Business
From Bankruptcy to $87 Million in Funding: How Tamara Mellon Saved Her Namesake Brand
The Jimmy Choo co-founder has faced plenty of hurdles as an entrepreneur. But now, she's clinging tight to her vision -- and finding new levels of success.
Building a Business
Can GoPro Reinvent Itself… By Going Back to Its Past?
The action-camera company grew fast, and crashed hard. Now it's trying to pick itself back up -- by thinking a lot smaller.
By Clint Carter
Business Branding
How ‘Failing Up’ Actually Helps Your Reputation
It takes more than success to build a memorable personal brand.
By Lida Citroën
Thought Leaders
9 Multimillionaires Who Lost It All but Came Back
You're never so rich you can't go broke and you're never so broke you can't get rich.
By Deep Patel
Thought Leaders
Amazon Has Purposely Built in Room for Failure. Has Your Company Done the Same?
For some companies today, it's OK to launch products early and let them hit the battlefield before they're officially ready to be scaled.
By Jason McCann