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Managing the Chaos of Growth Growth is a topic entrepreneurs love to contemplate, but it’s not one that gets studied enough. If you’re willing to learn from the past – and even your peers — you’ll discover that others have already made a litany of scaling mistakes so that you don’t have to. They’ve also […]

this happen. But according to a new report from The Manifest, only 6% of small businesses are focused on retaining their customers. This is despite the fact their main digital marketing goal is to increase sales. The data reveals most small businesses aren’t placing a priority in engaging existing customers. The report attributes this to […]

Do you envy other entrepreneurs who attract media attention for their companies? Do you see other business successes and silently wonder why they’re doing so well when your product is even better? It could be that it’s not a matter of product/market fit, but more a matter of founder/market fit. Entrepreneurs who succeed tend to […]

Thaddaeus Koroma may spend the majority of the year on the road, building his online monetization business, IPM2, but getting to that point wasn’t easy.  Like most start-ups, Koroma had trouble finding funding. “In 2014, one investor told me that he will never put a lot of money in a black person’s hand,” said Koroma.  […]

    Kathy Goughenour still remembers the shock she felt when, after following a supervisor’s advice and getting an MBA in marketing so she could get promoted, he told her the “real reason” she wasn’t going to move ahead: “You laugh and smile too much.” Goughenour had enough. Although she was still earning nice raises […]

What are the most important skills founders need before they start a business? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-Founder of PagerDuty, on Quora: I’ve seen lots of patterns of successful founders with […]

Companies that thrive amid constant change share a common trait: Their leaders encourage employees to think more like entrepreneurs than traditional workers. However, getting employees to think like entrepreneurs doesn’t require setting up a startup inside an organization. Rather, leaders must inspire employees to think for themselves, creating a culture where people want to play […]

Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld is no stranger to success. An Emmy, a Golden Globe and several Screen Actors Guild Awards are a few of the accomplishments to his name, not to mention one of the most iconic television series in the 20th century. So what’s Seinfeld’s secret? How did he manage to achieve such […]

Social media, no matter how you feel about it, has become embedded in our daily lives. That’s not always a bad thing. After all, having a presence on social media does have numerous benefits for entrepreneurs. Social media gets the word out about you and your business and helps establish you as a thought leader. […]

  According to the SBA Office of Advocacy, the vast majority of new companies fail within their first 18 months of operation. Only 50 percent of all businesses make it to the five-year mark, and only 33 percent make it to their 10th anniversary. Surprisingly, the failure rate of small businesses hasn’t changed much in […]