How Transparent Should You Be With Your Information?
Years ago, I was being interviewed to be CEO of a company by the Chairman. The Chairman previously had been CEO of a well-known public company in my space. The Chairman told me a story of how he posted the salary information of everyone in the company because there were employees questioning what other employees…
How Can Standup Comedy Improve Your Pitch?
How Can Standup Comedy Improve Your Pitch? By Brett Fox Do you want to become a better communicator? Watch some standup comedy and you’ll see a master communicator at work. There’s one thing all great comedians do that you need to if you’re going to be successful pitching your business. Watch this short 3 minute…
What Is Refreshing And How Can You Use It As A Startup CEO?
What Is Refreshing And How Can You Use It As A Startup CEO? By Brett Fox One of the toughest things to do is to make sure your earliest employees are rewarded for the risk they took. In today’s short video, I’m going to explain a fair way to make sure your employees equity is…
How Do You Know If You’ll Be Successful?
When times were really rough, I would get Avery’s magic eight ball. I would ask it, “Do you think we’re going to make it?” I would shake the eight ball and wait for the answer to appear in the triangle. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] The answer came…
What’s The One Business Book You Have To Read?
What’s The One Business Book You Have To Read? By Brett Fox There are a lot of great business books out there. But there’s only one business book that you have to read regardless of your business. And many people don’t even consider this must-read a business book. Watch this short three minute video to…
What Are The Huge Advantages Of Being Late To Market?
What Are The Huge Advantages Of Being Late To Market? By Brett Fox Being first to market is the holy grail when you’re starting a business. So it can be soul-crushing when you find out a competitor got there before you. But all is not lost. In fact, maybe you’re better off being second, third,…
How The Impact Of Your Decisions Can Multiply Over Time
“Well, it seems to me you have a choice to make,” my friend and mentor Dave said to me. We were having our monthly coffee meeting. We usually met at Peets in Town and Country Center off of El Camino in Palo Alto. It was May and the weather was nice, so we were sitting…
How Long Should It Take Your Company To Get To Break Even?
In today’s world of “just grow baby, grow”, the break even point for startups can be all over the map. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] Maybe you get to break even at a run rate of $1M/year. Maybe, like Uber, you can have revenue in the billions…
What Should Be Your First Steps Once You’ve Got A Great Idea?
What Should Be Your First Steps Once You’ve Got A Great Idea? By Brett Fox You’ve got a great idea for a new business. No what do you do next? Taking a little bit of time to figure out exactly what you’ve got, and whether it even makes sense to go forward, is a smart…
Who Should You Consider To Be Called A Cofounder?
I have a really simple rule for who is a founder and who isn’t a founder. If the person joins before the company receives funding, then the person is a founder. The amount of work, modeling, planing, and strategy you’ve done are irrelevant. Ego and greed are the enemy of success when it comes to…