Increasing liquidity through a capital raise

After more than 10 years of unprecedented economic expansion, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought us to economy zero, impacting both cash reserves and cash flows of many businesses.

Why Nurturing Your Investor Relationships Is Key To Fundraising Success

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, fundraising might seem impossible, but that doesn't mean you should stop connecting with investors altogether.

Capital Raising During Times of Uncertainty — Issuers Beware!

As the public market for thousands of early stage and growth companies, OTC Markets Group has seen the good, the hard and the plain ugly when it comes to what happens after a capital raising.

Startup Funding: Where to Get it & What to Look Out for

How can you make the necessary investments to build your business without any cash in the bank right now? In short, startup funding is the answer.

Startup Funding Explained: Everything You Need to Know

How to Raise Venture Capital | Entice Investors to Fund Your Startup Idea

Do you want 100% of a company that makes $100,000 a year? Or would rather own 50% of a $10 million company?

The Steps to Raising Startup Funding

Startup funding expert (and Founder Institute Alum) Will Sacks explains the step-by-step process he has used to raise millions in venture capital for multiple businesses.

Advice for raising a seed round of venture funding

Welcome to Equity on Extra Crunch, a semi-regular series of interviews between the Equity crew and members of the technology and venture capital worlds, digging into topics that don’t quite fit into our regular programming.

What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

by Brian Cohen

The Six Secrets of Raising Capital: An Insider's Guide for Entrepreneurs

by Bill Fisher

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

Government Incentives: Tax Credits, Grants, Cash Reimbursements & Financing

by Gil Gonzales

Why You Need a Data-Informed Product Strategy

Having a data-informed product strategy will help you create sustained, long-term growth. Here are the metrics that get you there.

How product teams can work to build more inclusive products

Companies of all sizes and statures have come under fire for creating offensive and racially insensitive products.

Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes

I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She has guest posted here before and has worked with me for years. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum...

Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them.

Product Management in Startups: MVP to 4.0 roadmap and product manager tasks

Keeping a product alive often seems like the sole purpose of an entrepreneur. So much of your time is dedicated to figuring out how to keep the ship from sinking and moving it forward, that you can quickly lose perspective of why you began the journey in the first place.

The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel

Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.

A Product Lifecycle Philosophy: Creation, Maintenance & Destruction

In Indian mythology, the universe was created by lord Brahma, preserved by lord Vishnu, and destroyed for the next creation by lord Shiva.

Building Internal Tools is Product Management Too

Lightning talk by Hannah Bertiger, Product at Walmart. This talk was recorded at the NY Product Conference in New York City at TheTimesCenter in 2019.

Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Five Days

by Jake Knapp

Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel

The Ultimate Guide for Getting to Initial Traction

FROM FIRST IDEA TO FIRST $1M+ IN ARR BY JASON LEMKIN. Including case studies from the founders of Box, Slack, Trello, New Relic, Hubspot and more!

A Checklist To Explode Startup Sales Growth

Let’s talk about taking a startup from small sales to big sales. I had coffee this morning with a friend of a friend who is a sales guru, for lack of a better term. After a ton of success selling software, she got the itch to do her own thing.

How to drive Customer Traction for your startup?

For a startup to succeed, there should be a good business model. And to devise a successful business model, you should have paying customers.

21 Guides On Startup Growth: Fundamentals, Growth Loops and Metrics

Contrary to sensationalized articles about ‘the growth hack’ that'll get you 1 million+ users, to think about growth as a self-contained activity or even series of activities, is incorrect.

"Traction" Book Summary ► How To Grow Your Startup

We mine golden nuggets (BiG Ideas) from best selling business book every week. We write and animate book summaries from a range on business areas like : Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Sales and Finance.

5 Tips to Help You Grow Your Business

I hope this video helps you learn how to grow a small business. Scaling your company and hiring your first employees can be a little tricky, but if you pay yourself as little as possibly and make hiring your top priority, it will pay itself off...

Scaling Your Company: Choosing a Growth Strategy

In this series, Rory O’Driscoll and Kate Mitchell, founding partners at Scale Venture Partners, will detail the mindset needed to scale your company.

How to EFFECTIVELY Promote Your Business in 2020

Promoting your business can seem very overwhelming, especially when you are a start-up or solo-preneur without a designated marketing team.

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

by Gino Wickman

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

by Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

by Jonah Berger

Tips For Building Meaningful Employee Engagement

Words like “engagement” and “culture” can get thrown around with a lot of lip service and garner very little more than an eye roll from staff and leadership alike.

Creating The Future Of Work: 10 Leadership Strategies For The Greatest Impact

We’re experiencing what could be the most significant reinvention of work in our time. Leaders will have an unprecedented opportunity to reexamine, redefine and reimagine the nature of our work, the way they engage people and how companies function.

The Key to Inclusive Leadership

What makes people feel included in organizations? Feel that they are treated fairly and respectfully, are valued and belong? Many things of course, including an organization’s mission, policies, and practices, as well as co-worker behaviors.

How to have powerful conversations that will influence people

The purpose of powerful conversations is to influence people and change mindsets. As an FBI agent, I needed to persuade people that it was in their best interest to cooperate with an FBI investigation.

Stop Managing, Start Leading

According to Hamza, managing millennials and knowledge workers the way we used to manage traditional factory workers can be disastrous.

The rarest commodity is leadership without ego

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

What All Leaders Can Learn From Female Leadership

Leadership requires aggression and confidence, while at the same time needs empathy and patience. Men have historical dominated leadership roles, but it isn't so much about having more female leaders as it is about having more leaders who act like females.

The Likability Dilemma for Women Leaders

A revealing talk about implicit biases forcing an honest look at how both genders often perceive successful women and their “likability.” Robin is an award-winning director of documentary films at Finish Line Features.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam Grant

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

by Laszlo Bock

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbel

by Eric Schmidt

Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff

by Joel Peterson

13 Key Employment Issues For Startup And Emerging Companies

Employers can fall into a myriad of employment-related traps. Numerous state and federal laws impact the hiring process and apply a wide variety of employment-related protections, including to discipline and termination issues.

Finding Your Startup Lawyer: What Every Entrepreneur Should Know

Successful management of any new enterprise, regardless of industry, is a process demanding of concerted effort to realize opportunity with a finite set of resources.

What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

Hiring and working with a lawyer is often confusing and daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. But when you’re starting a business, it’s crucial.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Entrepreneurship

What does it mean to be both ethical and socially responsible as an entrepreneur?

How to Legally Start a Business - 8 Steps

Today I go through the 8 steps you must follow when starting a business. These are legal tips and ideas that you should consider to make sure you start off on the right foot and legally protect yourself and your new business.

Starting a Small Business vs Starting a Startup: what's the difference?

Not all businesses are created equal. The guys that started Airbnb, or the guys that started Slack- set out to build a multi-billion dollar company that would IPO or get acquired for an insane amount of money.

How to Prepare for TAXES as an Entrepreneur

Have you ever wondered how to prepare for taxes as an entrepreneur? Well you're in luck! In this video, I teamed up with Bench Accounting to give you advice on how to prepare for a successful tax season as an entrepreneur!

The Best Tax Lesson for Entrepreneurs by Economist Arthur Laffer

Famous "Laffer Curve" economist gives the best lesson taxes for entrepreneur and insights into understanding today's economy in this interview with Patrick Bet-David.

Acceleration: What All Entrepreneurs Must Know about Startup Law

by Ryan Roberts

Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals

by Paul A. Swegle

Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding and Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success

by Samuel Dinnar, Lawrence Susskind

Working with Contracts: What Law School Doesn't Teach You

by Charles M. Fox