Finance & Operations
3 Important Steps to Take Before Firing Your Co-Founder

If you find yourself in a position where one of your company’s founding members has run their course, take these steps before letting them go.

by Josh Zywien
Startup Strategy
6 Reasons Why Silicon Valley Is a Special Place for Startups

Recently, there’s been a lot of chatter about other startup hotbeds, but as Jason Evanish writes, there’s still something very special about “The Valley.”

by Josh Zywien
HR & Leadership
Why Tempering Feedback to Prevent Hurt Feelings Benefits Nobody

In a post on his blog Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster says that you don’t need to act like a jerk just for the sake of being a contrarian.

by Josh Zywien
Finance & Operations
Why Every Company Needs to Know Its Burn Rate

Unless you’re Google or Apple — and even they don’t really apply — there’s no such thing as a company with a truly endless supply of cash.

by Josh Zywien
Customer Success
Insider Tips for HubSpot’s New Market Grader
[caption id="attachment_23188" align="alignright" width="300"] Image provided by: {link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3517227492/}stevendepolo{/link}[/caption] On the day HubSpot launched its latest Marketing Grader tool, Hubspot product...
by Josh Zywien
Customer Success
5 Classic PR Mistakes that Can Kill a Startup’s Public Image

Do you send out one-size-fits-all press releases to every media outlet imaginable hoping to get news about your startup company into consumer’s hands?

by Josh Zywien
HR & Leadership
10 Sectors that Entrepreneurs Should Be Targeting in 2012

If there’s an upside to the country’s still gloomy economic outlook, it’s the growing popularity of entrepreneurship and the volume of people willing to be risk takers and self-made success stories.

by Josh Zywien
Customer Success
3 Steps to Better Content Optimization and More Prosperous Lead Gen

More and more, both B2B and B2C companies are using social media and content marketing as critical components of their overall online marketing strategy.

by Josh Zywien
Customer Success
Struggling to Define Your Buyer Profile? Follow These 5 Easy Steps

Most marketers understand that the days of producing a singular message and communicating it to the masses – hoping your target customer sees it – are long gone.

by Josh Zywien