When Dane Atkinson was just 18 years old he started his first company SenseNet. Not one to rest on his laurels, Dane went on to found over a dozen startups in the intervening years before co-founding SumAll in 2011. With a lifetime of experience in the startup world, I talked to Dane about being an entrepreneur […]

Congratulations! You’re the CEO of your small business and it’s time to survive the holiday season. It’s the most important time of the year, especially for retailers everywhere, both online and in physical spaces. Being a small business owner, it can be difficult to get your products or services noticed in the crowded online space […]

In work and in life, disappointment is often inevitable. Turn life’s curveballs into your success stories. Life is full of surprises that aren’t always the kind we would wish for. What makes these unwanted surprises even harder to accept is our attachment to the way we expected things to go. This particular brand of discomfort […]

I’ve developed this uncanny ability to correctly identify a first-time founder with pinpoint accuracy based on one question. It’s quite simple. I ask the same question to almost everyone I meet, and there’s one response that immediately raises the first-time founder flag. To be clear, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a first-time founder. In […]

Most online visitors will click on your business website and size it up in a matter of seconds. By taking a few critical steps to build a website that appeals to prospective customers—and conveys legitimacy and trustworthiness—you dramatically increase the odds that they will linger on your site and purchase your products or services. Here […]

Handy, an online booking platform for cleaners, plumbers and home services, has outgrown its digs five times in the past two years. Now that the packing peanuts have settled in Handy’s new headquarters in the Flatiron district, general manager Alex Levin has some tips on planning around metrics for other companies experiencing quick growth. Levin […]

There’s no time more lucrative, or daunting, for marketers than the holidays. Picture the beginning of the New York Marathon: elbow-to-elbow with competitors, with everyone fighting for the smallest advantage since they know it will pay dividends down the road. How are you supposed to stand out? At WeWork Fulton Center on Thursday, November 6th, […]

If you’ve recently launched your startup, you’re probably wondering what steps you’ll have to take in order to keep it afloat. When investors become interested in your startup, they’re not just looking at your product; they take into account your team, business plan, and goals for the future. This is why scalability is a very […]