Lessons From Amazon to Apply to an On-Demand Economy Business
About two years ago, I made the decision to move from the CEO of a $100 million plus public company to work full-time for a new company I founded and funded that had revenue of...
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The Leadership Gap: The Simplest Way for to Gain Loyalty That Lasts [Book Excerpt]
The following contains an excerpt from “The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness" by Lolly Daskal with the permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group. Copyright © 2017 by Lolly Daskal....
Business Coach and Consultant Lolly Daskal Talks Breakthrough Leadership [Radio]
On this episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff is joined by Lolly Daskal. Daskal has been a leadership coach and business consultant for over three decades, working with entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 CEOs. The founder of...
5 Startups Headed for Success (and How You Can Learn from Them)
Smart entrepreneurs know it’s not the business model itself that creates success, it’s the mind and strategy behind it. It’s the long vision, the sleepless nights, the endless pots of coffee and that insatiable drive...
The Proud Small Business Owner: Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Starting your own business can leave you feeling on top of the world. Once you've made the decision to strike out on your own and experienced some initial success, you might feel as though you...
5 Productivity Tips for Entrepreneurial Success
Most entrepreneurs want and need things to happen now. Whether you started your own company, are employed as a hired gun to run a company or serve as the CEO of a private or public company, human...
Transform Your Life and Business: Audio & Book Excerpt from The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs
The following is an excerpt from "The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs" by Hal Elrod, Cameron Herold, with Honorée Corder, in agreement with Hal Elrod International, Inc. Copyright © Hal Elrod International, Inc., 2016. Here’s the...
ViSalus CEO Ryan Blair Advises Pay Attention to Your Time… Line [Book Excerpt]
The following excerpt is adapted from "Rock Bottom to Rock Star: Lessons from the Business School of Hard Knocks" by Ryan Blair, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of...
3 Ways to Determine a Startup’s Success
One of the hardest parts of a startup is determining if you’ll ever find success. Entrepreneurs dream of the day their startup will turn a profit or even hit its initial milestones. Startups are the...
Learn How to Fail Fast in Order to Succeed
The following excerpt was selected exclusively for StartupNation readers from “Daring & Disruptive” by Lisa Messenger. Excerpted with permission by North Star Way publishing, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. I think the key to failure is...
9 Tips for Women Who Want to Start a Business
Women entrepreneurs have become a strong force in today’s business world. Across the globe, many leading companies are now led by female entrepreneurs, many of whom already paved the way for aspiring women business owners. Before...
Work Smarter: Top 8 Productivity Apps for Entrepreneurs
The importance of time for success Time is limited for everyone. Even if a person gives up sleep, eating and his or her personal life, he or she still only has 24 hours in a...
There is Nothing Wrong with Reinvention!
Millennials have a reputation for being incapable of sticking to one career. It has become a rallying cry for businesses: that they have to "put up" with bad prioritization and lack of focus from those ages...
Startups + Mentors = Entrepreneurial Success
Celebrating Entrepreneurial Success While Mentoring Others Ever stood in what felt like a huge moment for your business and not known what to do next? Ever been plagued by doubt about whether or not a...
Must-Have Paid Tools For SEO Success
In order to increase search rankings in SEO work, I've outlined my top 10 list of paid tools for SEO success. Whether you are working independently or for a firm, it is critical that you...
How do you define success?
How do you define success? Success is all about having the right mindset. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of a dozen quotes about success from some of history’s most successful people and one inspirational movie...
“Bite Me Charlotte!” Overcoming your Nay-Sayers…
Imagine yourself on the CNBC show "The Big Idea" with host Donny Deutsch saying “Bite Me Charlotte” to millions of his viewers. Donny then fires the question, “Kim, how did you overcome your nay-sayer Charlotte...
Ten steps to workplace success
Your employees are not mind readers or fortune tellers, and your business is not a free-form venue for experimentation, or a place where individual preference based on mood, time of the day, or random circumstance...
It Still Smells at StartupNation HQ
Entrepreneurs need those unique and unexpected diversions in order to shake them out of their daily intensity and provide a proper perspective and the proverbial “looking at things from a different angle”. The good news...
Searching for a Success Principle
Why do we entrepreneurs educate ourselves? Sparing you a diatribe on knowledge theory, I'll cut to the chase: For those who succeed, education is a supplement to, but not a replacement for, drive and self-belief....