Kevin Shaw – Founder and CEO of Zagga Entertainment
[quote style=”boxed”]Compliment your team members often and at random. You’d be surprised how many times an encouraging word, text, email, phone call or tweet will get your team member to…
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Tianxiang Zhuo – Managing Partner at Karlin Ventures
[quote style=”boxed”]Be nice to people. You’ll be surprised how often entrepreneurs pick investors or investors pick other co-investors based on how much they like working with them. This simple strategy…
Free Webinar – 14 Ways to Thrive in a Day
One of the things I hear over and over from our community is that you’d like to see some more instructional content in addition to our daily interviews. That got…
Clay Bethune – Co-founder of 9thandElm
Most ideas sound good in theory — until you mention them to others. So I like to bring my team together a couple of times each week to throw out…
Aziz Lalljee – Co-founder and Co-CEO of Finom
I tend to fixate on a specific problem or task until I solve it, or at least until I reach some terminal understanding of the issue. At a startup, different…
Andrew Cohen – Founder and CEO of Brainscape
[quote style=”boxed”]Every single time you meet someone and get their business card, write them a follow-up email that same night. It doesn’t matter if you barely have a useful reason…
Sara Gulyas – Designer and Founder of Pikkpack
[quote style=”boxed”]Hard work will always pay off. You have to believe that if you put a great amount of time and effort in something, sooner or later you will see…
Zvi Band – Founder and CEO of Contactually
[quote style=”boxed”]Focus on revenue. This runs contrary to the traditional Silicon Valley mindset of “build something cool with a large audience, and the money will come later.”[/quote] Zvi Band is…
Seibo Shen – Co-founder and CEO of VapeXhale
[quote style=”boxed”]Constantly do things that you aren’t good at. In doing this, you continue to develop your skill set, while keeping yourself humble. As you progress and refine different skills,…
Naoki Yamada – Founder of Any Door
Sleep well and wake up early. Naoki Yamada grew up in Japan and went to college in Los Angeles, California. After graduation, he started working for company in Japan as…
Peter Manning – Founder and CCO of Peter Manning NYC
[quote style=”boxed”]Keeping a written and running list of things to do. When I veer off keeping the list I am less productive. Period.[/quote] Peter Manning is founder and chief creative…
Scott Goldman – Co-Founder and CEO of TextPower
[quote style=”boxed”]Having a great idea really doesn’t mean much – it’s all in the execution. [/quote] Scott Goldman is a veteran of the wireless industry – a dynamic, entrepreneurial executive…