An entrepreneur is an individual who, rather than working as an employee, founds and runs a new business, assuming much of the risks and rewards of the venture. An entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, new products, new technologies, new services, or new procedures.
The Entrepreneurial Dilemma Imagine your startup on the verge of breaking through, just needing another round of capital infusion to make it over the top. Your product is top notch, well reviewed, and fills a market niche. Your marketing is set and is already producing sales. Visions of an IPO Read more…
Company founders face a sour challenge: How do I build my startup team without neglecting my primary job of running the business? To be sure, attracting top talent is a critical endeavor for your company. In the era of the knowledge worker, human capital is arguably a company’s most prized resource Read more…
The co-founders of one of the companies I helped build launched their firm in an unusual way. They were both software engineers at a respected firm and decided to make the leap into the world of startups. They left their jobs with only the notion that their new company would offer Read more…
A businessman/inventor — I’ll call him Ray — recently approached me on LinkedIn, out of the blue, with an idea. A great idea. He had serious domain expertise from decades of operating experience and knew his space cold. He even had some IP in the form of patents. But, Ray didn’t Read more…