David Pike

4 posts

David Pike is the founder and CEO of Custom Song Gift. He is also the author of the book, "The New Startup," and has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, New York Post, Good Morning America, CBS Inside Edition, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and VentureBeat, among other outlets. David is a mentor and advisor for startups at Founder Institute as well as a guest lecturer at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a BSE in Industrial Engineering.

A 6-Step Checklist to Structure Your Business

You’ve decided to take the plunge and start your dream business. You’ve decided what your new company is going to do and have formulated your overall strategy. Now it’s time to complete a checklist of...

byDavid Pike

October 19, 2021

7 Ways to Find Startup Funding

You’re embarking on the adventure of starting your own business. You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? There are...

byDavid Pike

October 6, 2021

How to Validate Your Business Idea

In my last post, I talked about how you can generate business ideas. Now, I would like to share some methods on how you can validate your ideas to see which ones you should pursue...

byDavid Pike

May 22, 2018

How to Generate and Execute Your Next Business Idea

Millions of ideas float around every day but are never realized. What separates entrepreneurs isn’t the ability to generate a good business idea, but the passion and discipline to execute. If you are struggling to come...

byDavid Pike

March 14, 2018