It’s Q4, the end of the fiscal year for many, the quest for the last deals for vendors, the last budget spend for the buyers, and for all the need to become a priority; to appear, rather than to disappear.
07.11.2022
In the 2021 movie, Don’t look up, produced and distributed by Netflix, we see our capacity to be indifferent to what matters. In the case of the movie, this is centred around society’s actions and reactions to climate change and pushes us to open our eyes to reality. But the allegory can also work in business; ignoring your technical debt might just cost you your company.
08.07.2022
Gravitating towards big-name companies when searching for a job as a student is only natural. I mean, who would not want to land an internship with Google, JP Morgan, or Apple? However, there is a lot to gain when you consider working in a startup as a student.
23.04.2022
Landing on a badly translated website or product page can make many clients run away. Melanie Krause, a lover of languages, built Smylingua to be an agency that mixes software and linguistics to ensure targeted and true translations.
21.03.2022
Are you an entrepreneur? Maddyness has compiled a toolkit to help you create, grow, and even sell your own startup. From recruiting a team and protecting your brand to financing your innovation, you will find tips, tools and advice to help you navigate the entrepreneurship labyrinth. In this article: several recommendations for making a memorable pitch.
19.01.2022
“Is this investor for real?” I get that question a lot. Definitely more than I should. Because my answer is always the same and it’s always some form of “I don’t know.”
11.01.2022
Every good entrepreneur starts a new business with the best of intentions. And every good entrepreneur — even the best of them — will face more than one moment during their tenure as a company leader when they wonder if this whole startup thing might have been such a great idea after all.
04.01.2022
Are you good at inbound marketing? Would you consider yourself technically proficient? Have you ever closed a high-dollar sale? Could you balance your company’s books in a pinch?
28.12.2021
When a business relationship sours, it’s not a relationship worth saving. I’m a total team player. But even after 20+ years and 14 startups, I’ve never been a cofounder. Not once.
21.12.2021
Recently, I answered a question about sales contracts, asked by an entrepreneur who apologised in advance for the boring nature of her question. She also made it clear that she was not looking for legal advice or definitions of terms, but rather how to use elements of the contract itself to optimise opportunity and maximise her profit.
30.11.2021
In over 20 years of doling out startup advice, I try really hard not to tell people when to raise money and from whom. But I have no problem jumping into the “why.”
23.11.2021
Can the customer success manager be the modern fairy godmother your clients are looking for?
19.11.2021
Last week, I answered a founder’s question about how to pinpoint the right revenue streams for his two-sided marketplace, now that it was seeing traction on the vendor side.
16.11.2021
Last week, I got a question from a service company founder asking how to evolve her daily grind of a business to run more like a high-growth startup without pouring a ton of money into technology and marketing.
09.11.2021