Bootstrapping is a great startup strategy, but for some companies, bootstrapping isn’t the right answer—or maybe it was the right answer, in the early-stages, but you’ve outgrown that phase and are now in need of greater capital. Many entrepreneurs are black and white when it comes to capital: it’s either bootstrap or pursue VC funding. But this […]

Applying for an accelerator program is a major decision for any company in its early years. For CoachUp, it was the right decision, and we learned a lot along the way. We launched CoachUp in 2012 and successfully went through two incubators/accelerators that same year in Boston: MassChallenge and Techstars Boston. But as with any […]

Congratulations. You are living in a golden age of technological innovation. Every night when you go to sleep, there is a chance that you will wake up to the news of another amazing tech breakthrough. It might be a cutting-edge new app, an amazing new device, or some new scientific discovery. The global centers of […]

In the early days of your startup, it’s important that your team is building the right thing for the right people, and that you’re gaining traction fast. This is why it’s so valuable to have a community manager who is involved in the product development process early on. This can be easily accomplished with a […]

When entrepreneurs delve into business, they often envision themselves as lone wolves venturing out to single-handedly change the world. On some level, all of us can relate to this. What entrepreneur hasn’t said, “I don’t need help, I can handle this” at least once? As endearing as this may be, the reality is that success […]

If you’re looking to find the perfect freelancer for your next project, you may want to lean in when Ming D. Leung speaks about “stretchwork.” Ming D. Leung is an Assistant Professor at the Hass School of Business on the University of California’s Berkeley campus. He specializes in economic sociology (and more specifically, the study […]

Software engineers are lucky – they get to build products. On the other hand, non-technical co-founders work in the grey. We market, sell, talk to customers and do 1,001 other things. It can be hard for us to see the fruits of our labor. I agree that hitting inbox zero or ticking items off a […]

When you first launch your company, you have to micromanage to some extent – there’s little or no team infrastructure and, since you’re building a company from the ground up, every decision builds and shapes the future of the company. As you scale your business, however, there comes a time when micromanaging actually damages your […]