“I am nervous. I have read more than 100 reviews on this site from the good, to the bad, to the absolute unthinkable. I am hoping to get into a bikini by maybe July or August. I want better confidence, a fresher more youthful appearance. I want to be able to sit in a chair without [...]

Two years ago, Brad Feld, managing director of Boulder, Colo.-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group, was working with two companies whose teams included foreign entrepreneurs from Europe and Canada. While the businesses were promising, Feld and his team could not find any applicable visa categories that would allow the entrepreneurs to stay and start [...]

Scott Belsky knows why you don’t get things done. You have too many ideas. Belsky, 30, author of Making Ideas Happen (Portfolio, 2010), argues that most entrepreneurs suffer from idea-to-idea syndrome, jumping from one big idea to the next while executing none. Startup failure rates suggest he’s right, and he’s built a business to address [...]

Pamela Slim was tired. For the first 10 years of her career, she was busy juggling two demanding jobs. By day, she was a corporate director of training and development; at night and on weekends, she served as a volunteer director of a martial arts organization, working with at-risk children. The pace eventually took its [...]

Do I really know my numbers?  Numbers are the language of business, and you need to know and be able to measure your numbers to succeed and survive. What do I mean? If you look at your projections and see limited positive cash flow and marginal profit on paper, there is little chance you will [...]

Never pitch without a plan. Pitch and plan are like movie and script: You don’t do one without the other. The pitch summarizes the plan in a different medium. It’s an output of the plan, optimized for the medium and the audience.  One of the biggest crocks in the business buzz lately is the idea [...]