When you’re working in a small team, you become a jack-of-all-trades wearing multiple hats at once. With all the multitasking, it’s hard to focus as much time and energy on certain aspects of your job. At work, I’m constantly trying to find a balance between concentrating my efforts on marketing and running all of our […]

Minutes before the first meeting of my startup’s seed round, a wise advisor pulled me aside. “This is going to be wild,” he warned, with a knowing smile. “Brace yourself.” Several months later, after raising $850,000 for my startup, ReelGenie, the ride has stopped (for now). I hopped off the fundraising roller coaster with memories […]

You can be the world’s most ingenious entrepreneur, with an amazing and addicting app, but let’s just admit that the chances of your game being the next Flappy Bird are not likely. Unlike Flappy Bird creator and destroyer, Dong Nguyen, you need to promote your game a lot to get the virality of a No.1 […]

Do What You Love is a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. In this edition, we sat with Firehawk Creative’s co-founders John Petersen and David Lesches. In previous jobs, both John and David reached tipping points that pushed them to take the leap into entrepreneurship. Firehawk Creative launched in 2013 as a development […]

During a recent meeting with one of my business partners, I asked why revenue was flat in a particular channel when everything else was up. My partner looked me directly in the eyes and said, “It’s flat because I messed up.” I smiled on the inside. There are a million different excuses my partner could […]

I rushed into a conference room, out of breath and stressed out after running out of a long meeting. I briefly shook the hand of a candidate before me and abruptly started the interview. The room was full of tension and anxiety. The candidate, who came strongly referred by a trusted source, immediately looked nervous […]

It’s an age-old quandary you face at home daily: Should you rent, or should you buy? Does it make more sense to rent that spacious 2-bedroom apartment you’re now in, or buy a cramped condo on the “other” side of town? Is it better to lease that shiny new BMW 5-Series or buy a used […]

Startups are consistently urged to blog, to the point that the advice starts sounding like a Portlandia sketch, but saying “Put a blog on it!” isn’t as simple as it sounds. Producing a great startup blog requires a lot of hard work and time, so it shouldn’t be something you take on just to check […]