Business Operations & Logistics
I Sold Across 19 European Markets. Here’s What Most Founders Get Wrong About Europe
After scaling an e-commerce business into 19 European markets, I came to call my approach the country-signal rule.
Startups
Building a Business
If I Had to Start Over in 2026, Here’s Exactly How I’d Build a Small Business
Experience teaches lessons you just can't learn in business school, and I've spent 20 years building a company that has grown sustainably, profitably and resiliently. If I had to start over, here are the lessons I wouldn't leave behind.
Building a Business
Don’t Mistake Commercialization For Actual Sales Growth — Here’s Why the Difference Matters and How to Turn Ideas Into Revenue
Many early-stage startups scale sales before they understand what they are actually commercializing. Here's why confusing the two leads to false traction and premature scaling.
Business Ideas
What Growing Startups Get Wrong About CRM Software, and How to Fix It
Why CRM software fails in growing startups and how fixing process, not tools, makes it work.
Building a Business
6 Steps to Build a Rock-Solid Foundation For Your Business — and Save Yourself Time and Money Later
Follow this practical guidance to avoid costly missteps by getting the business fundamentals right from day one — you'll be more successful for it.
By Matt Farwell
Building a Business
I’m an Investor — Here’s What Founders Are Still Getting Wrong in 2026
Founders are still raising capital in 2026. The difference is how prepared they are when they walk into the room.
By Rogers Healy
Business Operations & Logistics
Your Startup Is Growing Faster Than Its Founder — Here’s the Playbook to Fix It
Running a startup like a one-person show works, until it doesn't. Here's what to fix before the whole thing stalls.
Business Ideas
Strategy vs. Planning? These Are the Mistakes That Keeps Founders Stagnant
As Q1 closes, CEOs must ask: are they truly building a strategy to scale, or just staying busy filling their calendars?
Business Ideas
From Coffee Shops to Culture Building — 5 Tips for Founders Creating Their First Workplace
As startups grow beyond laptops and coffee shops, the first workplace becomes a tool that shapes how teams collaborate and operate.
Thought Leaders
I’ve Built 10 Companies in 40 Years — Starting an AI Startup at 60 Is the Scariest One Yet
At 60, after building 10 companies, I'm starting an AI startup from scratch — and it's the most important (and terrifying) one yet.
By Brian Will
Building a Business
How to Land Your First 1,000 Users and Turn Them Into a Growth Engine
Growing a business isn't a straight line, and acquiring your first handful of users is going to look very different than acquiring your first thousand. Here's how to make the transition.
By Aytekin Tank
Building a Business
When the Job Market Tightens, Startups Surge — Here’s Why 2026 Could Be the Perfect Time to Launch Your Business
In 2026, entrepreneurship is surging, with new businesses forming nationwide and founders reporting strong optimism for growth.
Business Model
Why Early-Stage Startups Don’t Need a Traditional Go-to-Market Strategy
Early-stage startups don't fail from lack of effort — they fail by scaling sales and GTM before they've earned the right to grow.
Business Ideas
This Startup Claims It Can Stop Lightning Strikes. Scientists Have Questions.
Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent lightning using military tech, but the research is dubious.
Building a Business
The Fastest Way to Kill a Startup? This Common Mistake That Looks Like Progress
The obsession with hypergrowth and billion-dollar valuations pushes founders toward failure. Real wealth comes from discipline, systems, and scaling one zero at a time.
Thought Leaders
Why Adding More Features Is the Fastest Way to Lose Real Product Users
A counter-narrative to speed culture — written by a founder who lived the cost of hype.
Business News
Move Over Unicorns. ‘Soonicorns’ Are Taking Over the Startup World in 2026.
AI is flooding the startup world with cash, creating a new class of companies — and there are now more than 2,000 of them in the U.S. alone.
Business News
This Former Hockey Player Is Betting Glucose Monitoring Will Change How People Think About Their Weight
Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, Co-Founder and CEO at Signos, spent years watching people do everything right and still lose the battle with their weight. His solution isn't a drug or a diet. It's your own data.
Business Funding
Think You Can’t Grow Without a High-Profile Investor? Here’s How I Built an 8-Figure Business Without One.
Got rejected by investors? Your company isn't doomed. Here's why you might actually be better off.
By Mike Feazel
Business Funding
Stop Wasting Time and Cash on Hiring This Position Too Soon in Your Startup Journey
Hiring senior finance can unlock leverage — but only once the right foundation exists. Startups that see real value from finance leadership first build clarity, feedback loops and decision-ready numbers.
Building a Business
As AI Disrupts the Workforce, These Small Businesses Are Still Safe to Start in 2026
AI may be displacing workers, but these business models offer entrepreneurs strong opportunities to build thriving ventures in 2026.
Business Operations & Logistics
Why Commodity Scarcity Is Becoming the Biggest Bottleneck for Clean-Tech Entrepreneurs
Clean-tech startups are hitting a scaling wall because material supply, not technology or capital, is now the real constraint.
Human Resources
Your Culture Is Your Capital. Here’s How to Turn Soft Values Into Hard Startup Metrics
Coordination spreads responsibility, yet poorly executed, it compounds risk.
By Neel Somani
Building a Business
What Startups Need to Learn from Fortune 500 Playbooks (and What They Shouldn’t)
Here's what young companies can borrow from Fortune 500 discipline, and what to leave behind to stay innovative.
Building a Business
How We Out-Innovated Industry Giants on a Modest Budget — and How You Can Do the Same
When we couldn't outspend the biggest companies in our industry, we found another way to compete.
By Mike Feazel
Human Resources
This Former Deloitte Consultant Cracked the Code on Scaling Startup Teams Without Burning Them Out
Anna Lenhardt, founder and CEO of Lenhardt Partners, shares how she built a business that keeps culture at the forefront as startups scale.
By Dan Bova
Business Funding
How I Raised $1 Million in Just 6 Weeks — and What I Learned Along the Way
Fundraising, when done right, becomes the fastest way to evolve your narrative, your model and your strategy.
By Alex Levkin