How You Can Successfully Outsource Your Engineering
How You Can Successfully Outsource Your Engineering By Brett Fox Outsourcing your engineering development may sound like a good move on paper, but can you actually successfully manage a remote team? It’s harder than it looks. And it’s even harder if you aren’t technical. I’ll walk you through how to make sure your outsourcing is…
How Should You Handle Ethics Issues As CEO?
I was walking around the office late one Friday afternoon. I was chatting with everyone, cubicle by cubicle, about was going on. Then I got to “Chris’” cubicle, and I noticed something on his computer. Chris was looking at porn. Chris quickly switched from the porn website to another website. I went back to my…
What Personality Type Do You Need To Be A Great CEO?
Being a great CEO has nothing to do with being extroverted. In fact, being an extrovert doesn’t give you any advantage versus introverts. There is, however, a personality trait that you do need to be a great startup CEO. I’ll tell you what that personality trait is in this video. Do You Want To…
Why Can’t You Hire Engineers For Your Startup?
“We’re doing well if we hire 10% of the people that we have face to face interviews with,” I said to my cofounder and VP Engineering, Jeroen. We had hired our initial team of ten engineers through our network. So the numbers were much better for us. Now our hiring was starting to slow down,…
What Is Your NDA Strategy?
What Is Your NDA Strategy? By Brett Fox Non Disclosure Agreements are virtually unenforceable. So why should you insist on having people sign NDAs? I’ll explain why NDAs should be part of your business strategy in this short video. Do You Want To Grow Your Business? Maybe I Can Help. Click Here.
What Critical Thing Do You Not Realize As A Founder?
I was at a lunch meeting with the head of the venture capital fund that was sponsoring me as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). I said to Mike, “I know if we get funded, we will succeed.” Mike looked at me and said, “I can think of 100 things that will kill your company.” Mike’s tone…
What’s The One Preventable Mistake You’re Likely To Make Starting Out?
What’s The One Preventable Mistake You’re Likely To Make Starting Out? By Brett Fox There’s a mistake that you are likely to make when you are building your business. I can just about guarantee it. I made this exact mistake when I was starting my company, and it hurt us. I’ll explain what this mistake…
What Are The Tricks To Being A Great CEO?
I was telling Blossom yesterday that when I was starting my career I thought anyone that was a Vice President of company must be really smart. And you must be unbelievably smart if you were the CEO. I held CEOs up on a pedestal because of all the knowledge they must have to become a…
How Can I Make Sure My Startup Doesn’t Go Out of Business?
You’ll hear this phrase over and over again if you start spending time with Venture Capitalists. What’s the phrase? “Startups are very fragile.” I used to discount that idea when I was younger, cockier, and stupider. I knew what I was doing, or so I thought. Now I realize just how sage those…
What Are The Five Numbers You Instantly Need To Know?
What Are The Five Numbers You Instantly Need To Know? By Brett Fox There are five metrics that you should instantly know if you are on top of your business. If you don’t know where your business is with respect to these five metrics, you’re in deep trouble. What are these five metrics and…