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Scaling Your Startup: When Hiring Becomes a Founder Problem
As a startup, you are at a huge disadvantage when it comes to recruiting. You need to hire the best people as fast as possible to grow…
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8 questions every founder should ask before adding their next leader
One of the hardest moments in building a company happens right after growth starts working. Revenue climbs, customers multiply, your…
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7 signs founder maturity means being proud of who you’re becoming
There’s a quiet shift that happens at some point in your founder journey. It’s not when you hit a revenue milestone or close a funding…
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6 differences between being visible and being memorable as a founder
You can feel it when it’s happening. You’re posting consistently, showing up on LinkedIn, maybe even getting a few likes or comments.…
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7 mindset shifts that turn a founder into a real leader
If you’ve been building for a while, you’ve probably felt the shift creeping up on you. What used to be about shipping faster, closing…
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Lululemon Founder Chip Wilson Makes His Case for Change at the Ailing Active Giant
Updated 3:03 p.m. ET April 29 Chip Wilson — founder, largest shareholder and chief agitator for change at Lululemon Athletica Inc. —…
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7 signs you're in the founder identity crisis right before things start working
You don’t hear this part talked about enough. Not the early excitement, not the obvious lows, but the strange middle where things almost…
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Super Yaya Founder Rym Beydoun on Collaborating With Puma on the Speedcat
Rym Beydoun, founder of independent womenswear label Super Yaya, used to wear Puma Speedcat sneakers in the ’90s when she was a kid going…
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7 hidden costs of being everyone’s go-to founder
You know the role. You’re the one people Slack when something breaks, the one investors ping for quick thoughts, the one other founders…
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7 ways to sound credible without overselling yourself as a founder
Early-stage founders walk a strange line when talking about their companies. If you undersell, people assume the idea lacks traction. If…
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7 small founder habits that compound faster than funding ever will
You probably spend more time thinking about runway than routines. You refresh your bank account, model out best and worst case scenarios,…
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5 differences between being frugal and being afraid as a founder
You tell yourself you are being disciplined. You are watching burn, negotiating every SaaS subscription, pushing hires out another…
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7 meeting mistakes that instantly signal rookie founder
You can have traction, you can have revenue, and you can even have a decent deck. But if you run meetings poorly, people quietly downgrade…
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7 reasons saying “yes” too early is the biggest founder trap
You tell yourself it is momentum. The customer wants a custom feature. An investor offers a small check with complicated terms. A…
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Who Was Aaron Stokes? Founder of EuroFix and Shop Fix Academy Among Four Killed in Plane Crash Near Colorado Ski Resort
A millionaire CEO and a business owner from Tennessee were two of the four victims who were killed when a small aircraft went down near…
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Every confident founder I know learned these 7 lessons the hard way
Confidence in startups rarely looks like bravado. It looks quieter than that. It shows up as decisiveness under pressure, calm…
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How to protect your intellectual property as a new founder
You finally have something real: a prototype, a name, maybe your first customers. And then it hits you. What if someone copies this? What…
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7 founder habits that turn unpredictable revenue into stability
If your revenue graph looks like a heart monitor, you are not failing. You are building something early, uncertain, and human. Most…
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Lululemon founder slams board after see-through leggings fiasco
LEMON Athletica founder Chip Wilson lashed out over the company’s latest product flop, calling it a “total operational failure” that he…
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AirAsia X to be renamed AirAsia from Jan 19, founder says
AirAsia X will be renamed AirAsia from Jan 19 as low-cost carrier AirAsia reaches the final stages of its restructuring to consolidate all…
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Coupang founder Kim Bom apologises for data leak, pledges compensation
Online retailer Coupang’s founder Kim Bom apologised for the first time for a recent leak of customer data and pledged to unveil a…
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David Feld, Today’s Man Founder, Dies
Services were held Tuesday for David Feld, 78, founder of Today’s Man, a popular men’s specialty store chain in the 1980s and ‘90s, who…
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Nidec founder and chairman Nagamori quits board after spate of accounting issues
The 81-year-old has voluntarily resigned his post, the world’s largest maker of mini-motors says Nidec said its founder Shigenobu Nagamori…
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Bjak founder weighs IPO as Malaysia insurtech expands abroad
Bjak, Malaysia’s largest online insurance aggregator, is mulling an initial public offering (IPO) within the next two years as it seeks to…