When I was feeling really desperate (a common occurrence when I was raising our initial funding), I would build up a list of potential investors I had no way of getting a warm introduction to. You can learn how to develop a cold email that works too. Just follow these three steps: Step 1:…
Most CEOs wait too long before they raise their seed funding or venture funding, which almost always results in their startups failing. I don’t want that to happen to you. In today’s video, I’m going to explain to you: Should you raise funding? What you’ll need to raise funding? Who you should raise money from?…
With almost comic regularity startup CEOs make the wrong strategic mistake again and again. That mistake is they choose the wrong strategy to enter the market, and, most of the time, their startup fails and they never recover. That’s where the Blue Ocean strategy comes in. In today’s video, I’ll explain the tragic mistake too…
There’s an old truism about that you, the CEO, should be spending at least fifty percent of your time recruiting. The reason recruiting is so important is your startup can’t grow unless you have great talent around you. That’s why I interviewed everyone we hired when we were just starting out. It didn’t matter whether…
The way you increase the chances of your early stage startup succeeding isn’t what you think it is. For example, it isn’t the quality of your idea. You may have a great idea for your startup. However, ideas aren’t worth anything if you can’t execute on them. In today’s video, I’m going to explain what…
“It’s amazing what we’ve accomplished considering we started with $80,000,” “Jason,” the founding CEO of a company I’m working with, said. “Now, we’re preparing to sell the company for a lot of money.” Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here. “Most people don’t get to the level you’ve gotten…
There are some things you’ll never want to say to investors. You’re likely to think they’re smart, but, in the blink of an eye, you’ll have cost yourself a potential investment. Worse yet, you won’t even know why the investor said no. I don’t want that to happen to you. That’s why in today’s video,…
It’s a mystery to startup CEOs on how you should value a startup, let alone a startup with no revenue. Why is one startup with no revenue worth $1 million and another startup with no revenue worth over $100 million. In today’s video I’ll explain startup valuation methods that you can try, how investors will…
I was just having coffee with a friend of mine. I’ve known Bill for years and I’ve never seen him this upset. Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here. “You wouldn’t believe what my boss just did!” Bill said to me. “What did your boss do?” I asked. “They…
Product Market Fit is the be all and end all when you’re building your startup. Achieve product market fit and you’re on your way. The problem is that what you’ve been told about product market fit is wrong. And, if you follow the expert advice about it, you’ll fail. In today’s video, I want to…