Leadership and Management
How Do You Prevent Employee Burnout?
You’re building your startup, so everyone is expected to work crazy hours, seven days a week, right? Wrong. If you’re not careful with you how you manage your team, you run the risk of burning out your team. In this short video, I’ll teach you how you can avoid this problem. I hope you like…
Read MoreWhat Can’t You Screw Up When You’re Just Starting Out?
“You should give us the authority to spend up to $1,000,” “Randy,” one of my co-founders, said to me at a staff meeting right after we received our initial funding. Then he continued, “And we should each have a company credit card.” [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.]…
Read MoreWhat Should You Never Do When You Start A Business?
My wife and I were going through old videos the other day, and we stumbled upon this video of Avery’s fourth birthday party at our house. I invited Nancy and her son Ethan to the party. Nancy used to work for me a couple years before that. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe…
Read MoreHow Should You Talk About Bad News With Your Team?
“I think we’re getting really close to getting funding,” I said to myself. We had just had another VC pass, but THE WAY VCs were passing seemed different to me. Maybe we were getting close to getting funded. More likely we weren’t. Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.…
Read MoreHow You Can Run Multiple Startups At Once
“I’m managing three companies,” “Jason” said to me. It was our first conversation, and warning lights started going off. “Tell me about the three companies?” I said. Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here. Jason said, “The first company is a software company which is doing about $5 million…
Read MoreYou Need To Fire Your Co-Founder
One of the most painful things you’ll have to do is deal with your co-founder or early stage employee that was doing good work early on, but now is no longer cutting it. What you do next may likely determine the future of your company. In this short video, I’ll give you my take on…
Read MoreWhy Your Revenue Doesn’t Impact Your Valuation
A couple of years ago I was advising an entrepreneur, “Jacques,” who had, what we call, a “roll up strategy.” In other words, he wanted to consolidate an industry by buying several small companies, reducing their overhead, and combining them with his company. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click…
Read MoreWhat Is The Most Direct Reports You Should Have?
As your startup grows, understanding your span of control is critical if you’re going to be successful. In other words, having too many direct reports can severely damage your company. But the question is how many direct reports is too many direct reports? I’ll give you my take in this short video. Read The…
Read MoreWhen Should You Hire Your First VP Sales?
The first person I thought of when I started my company was “Ken.” Ken and I had known each other for years. We’d worked together for years too. Ken was, by a long shot, the best sales executive I’d ever worked with. Ken ran Asia sales for Maxim, and I loved working with him. I…
Read MoreHow Can You Tell If You’re A True Leader?
Leadership is a tricky thing. You can have your team following you, and then you can lose them, forever, in an instant. In this short video, I’ll explain the one thing you’ll need to do if you want your team to follow you. I hope you like it. Read The Video Transcript Below: It’s…
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