In a recent talk at RocketSpace, serial entrepreneur and investor Sami Inkinen shared his story of rowing across the Pacific Ocean. His talk was chock-full of unexpected advice for achieving work-life harmony.
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5 Entrepreneurial Lessons This Startup CEO Learned Rowing Across the Pacific
What do you learn about startups by rowing for 45 days and 2,400 miles across the Pacific? Quite a lot, says serial entrepreneur and investor Sami Inkinen.
Startup Founders: 5 New Year's Resolutions That You Will Keep
More than 40 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions, according to Forbes. However, fewer than 8 percent of that group actually achieve their goals. For founders looking to improve their lives and companies in 2017, one important factor...
Prioritize These 5 Things Every Day To Be A Better CEO
As the adage goes, when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. Founders and CEOs face a daily barrage of situations that must quickly be assessed, prioritized and dealt with. Although adding anything new to a maxed-out to-do list can seem...
How to Coax the Best Work from Senior Managers
You've successfully transitioned from middle management to startup founder and CEO. And now you are in the position where you need to make sure that your team leaders bring their A game each day so you can focus on running the company. But how? What...
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It's rare that elite athletes get to the top of their game without coaching — most top athletes have several coaches that help them get to the peak of their physical and mental game. It's the same with elite entrepreneurs: the best ones know that...
Growth Hacking 101: How To Build Your Startup's Online Audience (Part 2 of 3)
This post is the second in a three-part series about growth hacking. It focuses on building an online audience. Check out the first post on personal branding for startup founders here.
Scaling a business without a marketing or sales budget is tough,...
Growth Hacking 101: Personal Branding for Startup Founders
Some startup founders gag at the idea of "personal branding." There's something about the words "personal" and "branding" being so close together that can upset people from outside of the marketing industry.
Founders, though, stand to gain much...
What 10 Million-dollar Tech Entrepreneurs Wish They'd Known Before They Started
Entrepreneurship certainly isn't for the faint of heart. To prove it, here's an alarming statistic from Inc.: 96 percent of businesses fail within 10 years. Of those that survive, a shockingly low percentage have revenues of $1 million per year.
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As gung-ho and independent as most entrepreneurs are, successful businesses aren't created alone. Many companies are started by two people – think Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates and Paul Allen – with the idea that two heads are better...