Funding and Building your Business

This pending law is a HUGE game-changer for the biggest risk-takers in American Capitalism: the entrepreneurs who are creating jobs by starting and growing companies and the investors who provide them with the financial resources to do so.

If you are interested AT ALL in raising money for your company, read this book.

Intuition should never be ignored, but it should be supplemented by the growing wealth of data and analytic power available. The evidence is overwhelming that systematic analysis, not paralysis, leads to better decisions than intuition alone.

Publicly soliciting investments is about to become legal — and that could push the tech startup mania to a whole new level.

Don’t accept that you have a dysfunctional Board and you have to live with it.

How changing financial rules will affect technology startups — and could amp up your exposure to those fledgling companies.

Taking advantage of these tools can mean the difference between having time to make social media marketing work for your business or not.

It’s frequently estimated that the cost of recruiting, hiring and training a new employee can cost a business $4,000 (or more), which is often anywhere from 25 percent to 200 percent of annual compensation for that new worker.

Here is my own priority list of key risk drivers that every entrepreneur and every investor should evaluate and minimize in starting a business:

Here are some examples of people rationalizing their entitlements, especially when the fantasy serves to owe them money or power: