10 Reasons Why No One Likes Your Startup (on Social Media)
If you’ve incorporated social as part of your marketing strategy, that’s great. But what happens if no one is liking or following your social presence?…
How to Choose the Best Lawyer for Your Small Business
If you do not have a lawyer in place, you are opening the door to unnecessary business risk and precluding yourself from taking your business to the next level…
The 8 Commandments of Growth Hacking
While it is impossible to offer up a one-size-fits-all plan for growth, or even hacks for driving growth that are conducive to any early stage venture, there are strategies for making growth your foremost priority…
Rent the Runway Co-Founder Jenny Fleiss: Always Keep a Pulse on Your Customer & Company Culture
Rent the Runway Co-founder Jenny Fleiss lets us in on the habits that keep her productive day-to-day, the popular entrepreneurial advice she disagrees with, and the three key elements she attributes to running a successful business…
Lightbank & Chicago Tech Academy: Innovation Comes From The Most Unlikely Places
Chicago Tech Academy is not your average high school. You’re surrounded by innovative minds in the most unlikely of places…
The Challenges and Rewards of Growing a Company in Omaha
Proxibid CEO and President Ryan Downs talks about the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Omaha, his own personal experiences as an entrepreneur, and the future of his company…
5 Major Takeaways from the Quantified Self Conference in Amsterdam
I want to begin at the end: “Imagine you are lying on your deathbed. Life is almost over.” This is the request that was made at the closing talk of the Quantified Self conference in Amsterdam earlier this month…
Should One of Your First Employees Be a…Lawyer?
At a startup, once funding, revenue, or both are in the bank, typically the company will hire new employees. But, instead of filling up the team with designers, developers, marketers, and salespeople, should a startup consider bringing on a lawyer? A standard business rule of thumb for hiring an in-house attorney is (give or take)…
Startups, Stop Worrying About How You’re Going to Scale
“How am I going to scale that?” I hear the above question constantly from fellow early-stage entrepreneurs, and I find it baffling and arrogant…
Why You Lost Your Startup Passion—and How to Get it Back Again
It happens to everyone. You’re plugging away on a project and it hits you: What am I doing? Why am I here? Should I be doing something else with my life?…