3 Things You Should Know Before You Decide to Raise Funding
The business world today has been flooded with startups, and with them has come the attitude that any restriction on a founder’s vision can be poisonous to a company’s success. But many ventures — as...
View Article5 Essential Habits Every Successful CEO Needs to Adopt Today
I have loved getting to know venture capitalists from all over the country during my time fundraising for my company QuotaDeck and probably will be back at it again next year for our series A round....
View ArticleFinding and Funding the Next Generation of Female Founders
Women-led companies receive only about 7 percent of all venture capital funding. When a report came out of Harvard Business School last year with that statistic among its findings, Rad Campaign’s...
View ArticleShark Tank Recap: Mark Cuban and the Sharks Roast the Idea of Hot Coffee in a...
You wake up on Monday morning, look around at the incredible leaps of technology and human activity in the world around and us and muse, “What will they think of next?” But if you watched Episode...
View Article5 Reasons Why There’s No Better Time to Be in Sales
Sales is an interesting thing. You don’t have to go to college to be in sales. Actually, there are very few classes on sales at any university. A good salesperson can be a natural, and come in on day 1...
View ArticlePart 2: Ten Questions Every Start-Up CEO Must Ask Potential Investors
The second in a series of two posts for start-up CEOs In our first article about potential investors in your business, we shared how to initiate an investor search. We focused on the first steps and...
View ArticleThe Misadventures of the Venture Capitalist
I’ve been waiting for the tech balloon to burst for months. Two recent stories suggest it may at least be floating back to earth. The first is the controversy swirling around health technology startup...
View ArticleSeeking A Female Investor? Start By Doing Your Research.
The New York Times published an article “Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley” way back in 2010. The article stated: “Networks are crucial for fund-raising, because most investors don’t look at pitches...
View ArticleShark Tank Recap: Lori Greiner Does Not Need Mr. Wonderful
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel made a return trip to Shark Tank for episode seven of Season 7, following his bomb of an idea from last season–horse pants–with a new loser: the Kid Kone, a full-size...
View Article12 Essential Tips for Starting a Profitable Company
How many business owners do you know that opened a business with the intention of that business failing? Hopefully that figure is low–like zero percent low. But failure is often a part of starting a...
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