When Do You Stop Selling When You’re The CEO?
When Do You Stop Selling When You’re The CEO? By Brett Fox You’re front and center when you start a company. Your potential customers want to hear from you. Your potential employees want to hear from you. And your investors want to hear from you too. But does the selling ever end? I’ll give you…
How Do You Find Your First Customers?
“How do you intend to market your first product?” One of our board members asked me. It was March and we were going to launch our first product, the TS1001. We had 20 more products scheduled for launch in June. That was the big event. “We’re going to soft launch,” I said. In other words,…
How Do You Run Your Company As Headcount Grows?
I remember there were six of us after we closed our funding. Myself, my four cofounders and our operations manager Dave. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] Two weeks later Sid joined as our design engineering director. Within two months we added three more design engineers bringing us…
How Do You Earn Your Team’s Trust?
How Do You Earn Your Team’s Trust? By Brett Fox I was recently asked by a CEO I know, “How do I get my team to trust me?” Trust isn’t given, it’s earned over time. I’ll break down a simple technique you can use in today’s video. Read The Video Transcript Below: I…
Why You Need To Make Your Pitch Helpful To Investors
Dear fellow entrepreneur, I know you want to knock it out of the park with your pitch. And I know you want to help investors clearly see your vision. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] Here are my seven tips for hitting a home run each and every…
Why You Should Pitch To Investors That Passed On You Before
“You’ve done everything you told us you were going to do,” the VC said. “Incredible execution,” his partner said. “We’re going to move forward very quickly on this,” the VC said. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] The story was much different the last time I met with…
How Do You Find Your First Investor?
How Do You Find Your First Investor? By Brett Fox When you’ve never raised money before, finding investors seems like a mystery that can’t be solved. How do you even get meetings let alone money? I’ll break down how you can solve this seemingly unsolvable problem in this short video. The video is called, “How…
Why You Should Say No To Every Candidate You Pass On
Years ago I was interviewing with a startup to become a VP. I was meeting with the CEO late Friday in his office. We were having a good conversation, but it was clear I wasn’t exactly right for the job. The CEO looked at me and said, “I don’t think you’re right for the job.”…
How Do You Fire Your Cofounder?
I was in your shoes. I had a cofounder that wasn’t working out. And after a couple months of trying to fix things, I had enough. So I decided to fire “Randy”. You have the hiring and firing authority for your company when you are CEO. So if you want to fire a cofounder, then…
When Should You Sell Your Company?
When Should You Sell Your Company? By Brett Fox Figuring out if and when you should sell your company is a really tough decision. It’s even harder when you’ve worked so hard for so long. In today’s short video, I’ll walk through how to decide if and when you should sell your company. Read…