Leadership
Let me say this carefully and clearly, because I have a lot of friends in accounting, and I mean none of this as a criticism of them. Accounting was not…
There is a moment that a lot of entrepreneurs talk about. You have crossed some threshold, a million, five million, whatever the number was that used to feel like the…
Hint: There is no “right” answer, there are only better questions. Everyone’s struggling with something. I know that sounds like something a therapist would say. But I mean it as…
People talk about bootstrap, borrow, and bet as if you pick one and move on. That is not how real businesses work. You always bootstrap. What bootstrapping actually means Bootstrapping…
There’s a specific kind of pause I’ve learned to listen for. It usually happens when a business owner tells me that they hit their sales targets – but doesn’t seem…
80 years. Billions of dollars. One wrong assumption. Everyone agrees that small business is the backbone of the country. We’ve been saying it for 80 years. The SBA launched in…
There’s a pervasive myth in entrepreneurship: raising venture capital is the mark of success. The numbers tell a different story. In 2024, approximately 5.2 million new businesses launched in the…
There’s a common myth in entrepreneurship: if you get funding, you’re set. It sounds simple. Raise a first round of venture capital, and success will follow. Here’s the reality: investors…
We’re lying about entrepreneurship. Not intentionally, but the effect is the same. We talk about it as just another career move—changing jobs with slightly higher uncertainty. That’s not what it…
If you’re asking this, you’re not paranoid. You’re paying attention. You’ve got customers. Money is coming in. But there’s this nagging feeling that you can’t quite shake – are these…