Member Spotlight is a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. In this edition, we recently chatted with Neil St. Clair of AlleyWire. AlleyWire is a video-centered media outlet and discovery platform. They’ve showcased over 250 innovative startups and founders in New York City since September 2013 in the form of short informative video stories. […]

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” This quote, attributed (perhaps erroneously) to Henry Ford, illuminates an important idea for entrepreneurs to keep in mind: Sometimes the best market for your product doesn’t exist yet. I first began researching the market size for my data sharing company, ShareFile, […]

Post tax season is the perfect time to reevaluate your financial support team.  There are countless financial advisors in the United States.  Considering each person’s personality, fee structure, communication style, brand and small print, it is enough to make your head spin.  To make things easier for you, here are my top five tips for […]

As technology continues to evolve, it’s necessary for companies to update and create new innovative user acquisition strategies. Growth engineering requires equal parts marketing, technology, and creativity, which is why the best toolboxes are diverse and always changing. Although a growth engineer’s toolbox is never complete, the following nine tools are a great starting place: […]

The publishing industry has undergone a dramatic change over the last seven years. Before the e-book revolution, the New York publishing circle was an exclusive club that relied on paper-based, box-shipping distribution, and limited marketing budgets. Publishing a business book was only a possibility for a select few titans in the industry, like Andrew Carnegie […]

One of the best moments of a self-employed person’s life is the day they can scale their business. But there are always pros and cons in a situation like this. When you’re so overwhelmed that you’re doing the work of two (or more) people, you feel the need to hire someone right away. But sometimes […]

Managing the work of other people – “bossitude” as I’ll call it for the purposes of this piece – is not something we are ever really trained for. I’ve managed the work of others for close to forty years as a corporate executive and as an entrepreneur, but no one ever really formally taught me […]

The search for talent is an on-going battle, and for startups and small businesses, it’s an all out war.  With graduation around the corner, the competition for young, fresh-minded talent – millennials – is ramping up. Generation Y is innately attracted to a tech-savvy workplace culture, executed seamlessly with the latest office gadgets – from […]