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With all the complexity of creating a business, entrepreneurs often make little mistakes while trying to keep up. MyCorporation lets you know some of the things to look out for when creating your first business. Read More

Every culture and community puts pressure on its members to follow the norms. Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called “freaks,” and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they “grow up.” Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disrupti Read More

As an angel investor, I get requests almost every day to review a new product or website, and provide feedback on its potential success. Yet I can’t remember the last time any entrepreneur asked me to assess personal potential, despite the fact that most investors will admit they invest in the pers Read More

According to an Intuit study, 41 percent of entrepreneurs feel a sense of loneliness during their pursuit of starting and building a small business. Albert Ko, VP of Product Management for Intuit, shares with us what the company is doing to help small businesses get past those feelings, bring more Read More

Before Larry Page snaps up an acquisition target, he asks one simple question. Page's "Toothbrush Test" flies in the face of traditional acquisition strategy. He doesn't much care about the financial details--the cash flow, earnings, etc. He doesn't even care all that much about sales. Read More

When trying to get funding for small businesses, it helps if you have a product that you’ve demonstrated the ability to sell successfully. But as some tech startups have shown recently, that’s no longer an actual requirement.
Buzzy tech companies like Magic Leap, a virtual reality startup, have be Read More

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the Read More

With the uptick in the economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. There just aren’t enough Angel investors and VCs to go around. Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or goi Read More

Every business leader has blind spots which limit their effectiveness and success, but due to ego, over-confidence, or deferential subordinates, many live totally in the dark. Some are smart and humble enough to assume that they don’t know what they don’t know, but lack an effective process for shi Read More