How can anyone ever forget to launch? This sounds impossible, but it has certainly happened before. It’s one of the most important days in the history of any company, and yet I’ve seen this happen many times. Here are the four most common founders who forget to launch: The One More Feature Guy: Everything is […]

Did you know small businesses make up 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms and employ 49.4 percent of private sector payrolls? As we celebrate National Small Business Week, it’s worth recognizing that small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy, form an integral part of communities and are often a barometer of local and, […]

If you ask Jesse Kirshbaum, the founder and CEO of New York-based New Universal Entertainment (NUE) Agency, how he got his start in the music industry, he’ll probably recount the time he danced in a Puff Daddy music video. However it’s not his dance moves that catapulted his career. He credits that knowing how to […]

There has been a lot of news about Twitter in the last few weeks, most recently the post from The Atlantic, “A Eulogy for Twitter.” The article argues that although Twitter’s users are increasing, their users are less active. Others have pointed out that this is not a fair comparison and I agree with those […]

Alternative Minimum Tax Rate We’ve previously explored how equity options work at startups, today we’re taking a deeper dive into certain tax pitfalls to watch out for when exercising your options. Although incentive stock options (ISOs) are generally more tax friendly than non-qualifying or non-statutory options (NSOs), ISOs can pose Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) traps and lead […]

Member spotlight is a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. In this edition, we recently chatted with Samantha Trinh, startup advisor and founder of Ennovae & Company. Ennovae & Co. is a New York-based digital agency and strategy consulting firm that partners with scalable startups to develop go-to-market strategies for new product launches […]

We’d all like to see that swooping, hockey stick incline in revenue when we’re ramping up our startups. But more often than not, the hockey stick breaks, and revenue stalls at some point in the growth process. This trend is a daunting reality for startup founders, and one that they would obviously like to avoid. […]

Maybe you’re like me and have gone through periods when clients or perspective clients weren’t respecting your time. I myself was getting way too frustrated with these non-existent meetings and the people I had appointments with. And then I realized that while I couldn’t correct the situation entirely, there were a few things I could […]