Staying Ahead in the Agentic Era (or Any Era) Comes Down to 1 Key Priority
The companies that win each technology shift are the ones that stay close enough to customers to notice when their problems change and keep innovating...
Students With Impressive Profiles Still Get Rejected From Elite Colleges. Their Biggest Mistake Is One Businesses Make, Too.
Whether applying to an elite university or building a business, success hinges on telling a singular, compelling story that sets you apart from the co...
Your Cash Flow Problem Isn’t the Problem. Here’s How to Diagnose What Is.
Cash flow problems are often symptoms of deeper issues with pricing, profitability, collections, expenses or operations, making accurate diagnosis ess...
Why Your Competitive Advantage Should Come Before Your Growth Plan
Discover how to build defensibility into your business from day one, creating a moat around your brand, IP, distribution, nich and systems that make y...
My 3-Step Process for Picking (or Nixing) a Co-Founder, After 30 Years of Starting Companies
Choosing the wrong co-founder can sink a promising business, so use this three-step process to test skills, values and behavior under pressure before ...
I Left Medicine to Build Companies. These 7 Lessons Rewired How I Think About Entrepreneurship.
Building a successful company requires founders to continually evolve by staying curious, listening closely to customers, trusting their teams, adapti...
She Fled Vietnam on a Boat at Age 5. Now She Funds and Empowers Female Founders: ‘Confidence Is Overrated, You Just Need to Take Action’
Soon Hagerty survived 12 days on a refugee boat, built three businesses and now funds female founders — and she says the secret to her success has not...
Your Financial Statements Are Trying to Warn You. Here’s How to Read Them.
Financial statements become powerful strategic tools when entrepreneurs learn to read beyond revenue and profit to uncover trends, risks and opportuni...
Why Executives Need to Leave the Boardroom for the Store Floor
Executives make better decisions and build stronger organizations when they stay close to frontline employees, customers and the day-to-day realities ...
‘Only the Paranoid Survive’: How FanFeed’s C0-Founder Plans to Outrun the Big Players in Ticketing
FanFeed co-founder Cole Rubin explains why being the least technical person in the room, thinking like your customer and keeping a healthy dose of sus...
Missed Deadlines Aren’t Always an Accountability Problem. Here’s What Leaders Overlook.
Sharper accountability fails when the person named to own the result only enters the work after the decisions that shaped the outcome have already bee...
