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Monday, December 18, 2017
Red Rocket's Best Startups of 2017
Red Rocket gets introduced to hundreds of startups each year, in the normal course of doing business, or via our involvement with vari...
Friday, December 8, 2017
Too Many Meetings Suffocate Productivity and Morale
Early stage companies have many demands on an employee's time. From getting the product built to marketing for new customers to ge...
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Lesson #283: Marketing Roles and Compensation
. As your company scales, marketing becomes a bigger and bigger driver of your success. You will experience expansion in ea...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Need Your 2018 Business Plan? Help is Here!
I know, with Thanksgiving now behind us, the holiday season is starting to set in. But, no rest for the weary! Now, is the exact tim...
Monday, November 20, 2017
Lesson #282: Don’t Start Marketing Until You are Ready!
I recently wrote about scaling companies , and the importance of having a solid marketing plan in place to support that growth. But, ...
Monday, November 6, 2017
Lesson #281: Avoid Internally Shuffling People Into Wrong Roles
The old adage, a “bird in hand is worth two in the bush” may work in some instances in business, but slotting people into employee rol...
Friday, November 3, 2017
How to Build a Startup Ecosystem
Chicago’s startup ecosystem is exploding . But so are others all across the country and around the world, with varying levels of suc...
Monday, October 30, 2017
Lesson #280: Tell a Story When Marketing Your Company
I recently met John Replogle, one of the most successful entrepreneurs and consumer marketers I have ever met, which says a lot, given...
Monday, October 23, 2017
Lesson #279: Ali Express, The Amazon Killer You Never Heard Of
Back in Lesson #251, I talked about the U.S. based ecommerce companies being at risk to Chinese manufacturers selling direct on Amazo...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Lesson #278: Entrepreneurs Mellow & Mature With Age
I've been an entrepreneur for most of my life. I started an odd-jobs business in high school, founded a collectible comic-book bus...
Monday, October 9, 2017
Lesson #277: Revenue Share Loans
I recently met Benji Taylor Jones and Jim Verdonik, the crowdfunding team at Ward and Smith (a leading law firm in Raleigh) , who intr...
Friday, October 6, 2017
In Sales, Silence is Golden
I have written dozens of useful how-to lessons for driving sales , but perhaps none is more important than this one. This is the day t...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
The 6 Steps to Taking Your Business Global
If your business has seen successful growth here in the U.S., it most likely will see success in other countries, as well. And you may ...
Lesson #276: Lessons from Two Unicorns (LendingTree & Blackboard)
At the recent CED Tech Venture Conference in Raleigh, I sat through the presentations of two successful entrepreneurs that both built...
Monday, September 25, 2017
Lesson #275: Lessons From the Best VC Ever (John Doerr)
This last week, I attended the CED Tech Venture Conference in Raleigh, the leading technology and venture capital conference in the ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Lesson #274: Do You Need a RE-Founder for Your Business?
Oftentimes, startup entrepreneurs are simply too close to their businesses to get a clear, non-biased look at what may be holding them...
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