The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the United States. Unfortunately, 30 percent of new businesses fail within the first 2 years of launching, 50 percent fail after 5 years, and the number climbs to about 66 percent by the tenth year. Dallas Mavericks owner and mogul Mark Cuban says this is because most […]
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(If you are wondering, the image of me above was taken when I used to work at KISSmetrics with Hiten Shah… I used to have hair) In early January 2017, I purchased the KISSmetrics website for $500,000. If you go to the site, you’ll notice that it forwards here to NeilPatel.com (which I will get
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Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart—anyone who’s tried to start their own business knows this. And being a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley takes that truth to a whole other level. Being a woman CEO in a predominantly male environment has taught me so much about myself, and what it takes
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Starting a business entails understanding and dealing with many issues—legal, financing, sales and marketing, intellectual property protection, liability protection, human resources, and more. But interest in entrepreneurship is at an all-time high. And there have been spectacular success stories of early stage startups growing to be multi-billion-dollar companies, such as Uber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Airbnb, and many others.
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My heart is heavy after hearing that Anthony Bourdain, a man that inspired so many of us to eat better, travel well, and, in general, live life on our own terms, has left us. His impact resonates with millions of people (check out Twitter to see just a drop in the bucket of the respects
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By Martin Grunburg It’s every entrepreneur’s story: Everything—family, success, reputation—seems to rest on the success of your business. The daily onslaught of endless problems that go hand in hand with starting and running your own company can quickly overwhelm and stress out even the best of us. As a life-long entrepreneur, it’s easy to resort
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One of the things that has held me back is procrastinating too much. I don’t feel like doing the stuff I know I need to do because I don’t feel like it. I know what I need to do, but then an image pops up in my head luring me from the dusty wasteland of
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Like many entrepreneurs, I am also a mother. So, in a sense, I have two children: the human one and the business. They’re just two years apart (my son is 13 and the older of the two), and I’ve seen a lot of parallels in nurturing them both over the years. If I’d written this
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A bad idea, gross mismanagement, or a poor work ethic can kill a startup before it’s out the gate. But there are other things founders often overlook that can kill their businesses–or severely hamper it–a little later down the road. The problem with these things is they become either difficult to fix or totally unfixable
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Managing a sales team is no easy task. You have the potential to either make or break your sales reps. And there’s tons of conflicting information out there. Effective sales managers recruit top sales leaders, provide them with the tools they need to bring in sales and watch the numbers grow. But it isn’t always
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