Bootstrapping 101: Test-Drive Employees

Interviews may not be worth the time you spend conducting them. They’re certainly not worth all of the time it takes setting them up. Some people you interview look the part and talk the part, but then utterly fail. Rather than write a post about the perfect interview...

Secret to Profits: How to Calculate Gross Profit

Some of our most successful entrepreneurs never attended an accounting class, let alone graduated from college. Many entrepreneurs wouldn’t believe the point that skyrocketing revenues is an all-too-common quick recipe to kill a business. “What?!” you ask? It all...

Bootstrapping 101: 80/20 Rule

When it comes to making successful decisions, especially in running and bootstrapping your business, hindsight is always 20/20. One of the hardest things about making successful decisions, is knowing which decisions to make. Prioritizing your time so that you focus on...

Startup Lessons from the SpaceShipTwo Breakup

Three days after the Virgin Galactic’s tragic crash and loss of its pilot and its SpaceShipTwo manned rocket, we reflect on startup lessons to be gleaned from the situation. John Goglia recently posted an article on Forbes describing some of the major differences...