The 5-Step Process for Finding the Best Designer and Developer for Your Business
Here are five important steps to choosing the best design and development team for your small business…
Mark Achler Shares Redbox’s Secret to Success
How can a company invest all the time and money necessary to manufacture, ship, maintain, and stock big kiosks full of DVDs all over the country—and only charge customers a dollar a day per movie?…
If You Want to Start Something You’re Passionate About, You Just Need 10 Minutes
Founder of Vayable, Jamie Wong: When you start a company, it’s totally irrational. No one’s ever prepared, and doing it is a complete exercise in putting a cart before the horse.”
Every (Successful) Strategic Startup Vision Begins with Some Serious Introspection
There’s something oddly remarkable about entrepreneurs these days. So many of them are prepared to suffer for their business strategies, yet so few actually take the time to learn how to strategize…
The 7 Important Entrepreneurial Lessons I Learned at Big Omaha (They’re Not What You Think)
I just came back from Big Omaha this past week, which is pretty much the best conference in the country for entrepreneurs…
The Basics of Hiring an Intern for Your Startup
Can startups benefit from hiring students? The answer is a resounding “yes,” whether you choose to offer internships for a few weeks, or months at a time…
4 Valuable Lessons on Growing Your Startup from: Neil Patel, Emerson Spartz, Aaron Ginn, and David Petrillo
The Technori Growth Summit, a one-day conference on business growth strategies for entrepreneurs, was held recently at the Gensler HQ in Chicago…
Now That We Have All This Big Data, What Should We Do With It?
“Nobody gets into marketing because they love math.” That sentiment came from Erik Severinghaus, founder of SimpleRelevance, at the April 25th Evening With An Expert event hosted by the Chicago chapter of the American Marketing Association at the 1871 tech incubator. Math may not be the inspiration for marketers, but now it’s become a necessity.…
31 Things You Need to Cover in Your VC Pitch Deck
When preparing your company’s financial and business models, you need to make them compelling, eye catching, and to the point—they have to get the deal done…
Pay to Play: An Investor Issue Entrepreneurs Should Care About
So-called “pay to play” provisions are among the more esoteric aspects of venture capital investment negotiations…