The biggest question we deal with on a daily basis is “how much does insurance for startups cost?”  All of our clients want to know exactly what they’ll have to spend and how long it will take.  They all expect an immediate answer, and can you blame them? The startup world moves at a blistering […]

After running an ultra-high-growth, successful business for three years, I noticed a disturbing trend creeping around the edges: complexity. As we grew our team, expanded our product line and added more marketing strategies into the mix (all at a high speed), each piece started to leave a messy little trail in its wake. This is […]

The first year and a half of a company’s existence is less about minding the metrics and more about putting in place the infrastructure to be able to measure your business in the long run. Hopefully, you’ll get to a point where the metrics of gauging your progress are relatively easy—everything from expanding your user […]

In this roundup of advice for small business, you’ll find out why entrepreneurs shouldn’t skimp on sleep, whether or not doubt is a good or bad thing, and how to charge what you’re really worth. 3 ways lack of sleep can hurt you Sleep and business ownership often make pretty crappy bedfellows—that’s been one of […]

Marketing your startup is hard. You’re likely working with a limited budget (if any at all), no name recognition, and an early-stage product that isn’t nearly complete — but is functional enough that you’re ready to roll it out for users. I’ve noticed that for a lot of first-time founders, the hardest part about marketing […]

After graduating from the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology, I opened a small recording studio.  In effect, I became a freelance audio producer.  I started to notice a number of freelance voice talent would contact me and ask if I had any connections to jobs. I asked myself: “What if I transformed my brochure-style […]

Up to 93 percent of our communication is nonverbal. This means that our body language, facial expressions and other nonverbal behavior is even more important than our verbal content. Yet most people don’t even think about what their body language is saying to others. As a result, many business people don’t ever realize how much […]

Behind every successful company, there’s a team of people working tirelessly to bring an idea to life. For Room Hints cofounder Tiffany Willson, this (often romanticized) hustle has stuck with her since the age of three: “I’ve always had that fire in my gut to start something.” And so she did. We sat down with Willson […]