Q: How Can I Get Founders to Listen to My Suggestions?
A question from a frustrated early employee in a startup: how can I get founders to listen to my ideas and suggestions?
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Q: Overcoming Post-Acquisition Letdown
A question from an entrepreneur about post-acquisition letdown and how to stay motivated working for a large company.
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Bill Grosso on Startups after AI
Bill Grosso discusses the role of startups after AI becomes pervasive in the business ecosystem and the emerging opportunities that will create.
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Why Spreadsheets Still Rule Finance and Why That’s a Problem
Martha Ryan’s blog post offers a practical look at why spreadsheets still dominate finance—and the hidden risks they create. A must-read for CFOs, analysts, and anyone relying on data-driven decisions every day.
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Lessons Building a Scalable Education Business
Amadeus Ciok, Founder of Learn Vibrant Math Tutoring, shares the real-world lessons building a scalable education business.
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Manage Communication and Coordination to Achieve Synergy
Organizations that rely on design and creative problem solving need to manage communication and coordination to achieve synergy.
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A Roundtable with Front Line Managers at IEEE-TEMS
Insights from a roundtable with front line managers at IEEE-TEMS: trust, empathy, expertise, and AI skills will all be important in 2026.
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Shifting from Specialist to Founder
Shifting from technical specialist to founder brings a bottom line responsibility and the need to manage a host of new challenges.
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Account Review Meetings Drive Startup Growth
Startup entrepreneurs should conduct account review meetings to stay close to customers, drive revenue, and build a repeatable business.
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Building and Leveraging a Partner Network
A startup begins with limited resources and credibility. Building and leveraging a partner network will add capabilities and spur growth.
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Jeff Allison: How to Drive Innovation and Meet Commitments
Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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Quick Take: Scaling Up a Small Team
Scaling up a small team in a bootstrapped startup can present some unanticipated challenges. Here are some things to watch out for.
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Challenging the ‘Growth at all Costs’ Startup Model
You don’t hear it as much in 2024 but “growth at all costs” was common advice for entrepreneurs in as you did 2013-2022 (and 1996 to 2001). Here are our reasons by we don’t recommend it for bootstrappers.
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Delegating Enables Growth: A Solo Founder’s Experience
Some lessons learned on how delegating enables growth, shared by a solo founder who is now scaling his business with contractors.
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Building Better Startups with TPS and Lean Principles
TPS and Lean Principles align production with customer demand to minimize inventory, improve cash flow, and foster true efficiency.
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10 Best Practices for Agile Hardware Product Development
Mike Keer discusses the concept of agile hardware, which involves cycles of innovation and testing requirements throughout the prototyping phases. He emphasizes the importance of learning from each cycle and making necessary adjustments to meet specifications and performance goals. He also highlights the need for flexibility and the ability to pivot in response to unexpected
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Q: How Does White Label Work?
When a firm has a white label relationship they license your product under a different name and provide first-level support.
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Scott Swaaley on his Entrepreneurial Journey at MakeSafe
Scott Swaaley of MakeSafe shares details of his entrepreneurial journey in two videos jointly produced with Altium.
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Six Activities for Learning New Skills and Tools
Real life often presents entrepreneurs with a new problem or opportunity, so they find themselves learning new skills and tools on the fly.
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Land and EXPAND – Recession-proof your Sales and Expand your Bottom Line
Land and EXPAND the fasting path to expand your bottom line. A key area where many companies don’t focus as much as they should – is expansion within their existing customers
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