The advice, counsel and support of an advisory board is required to accomplish substantive objectives of a scaling startup.

If you’re not careful, it is easy to focus on avoiding onerous rules or minimizing tax consequences at the expense or your core business operations. These are certainly important factors, but they take a clear second place to meeting the market demand-solving the consumer’s problem.

Are you thinking of the next step or the final destination? Here’s how conceptual thinking influences your business strategy and eventually the success of your company.

The purpose of discussions with these constituents begins with validation but ultimately includes the potential of funding your startup.

The executive summary is typically one of the initial interactions an entrepreneur will have with an investor. Here’s how to make your best first impression.

Mission statements are very simple, which makes them exceptionally hard to formulate. There are five components to a good company mission statement.

Many people think they have what it takes to be an entrepreneur. What they don’t realize is that they are actually a Wantrepreneur – an individual who continuously ponders, desires or wants to start a business, acts as if they are an entrepreneur but fails to take the steps necessary to establish and operate a business.

The following is a list of six items you should consider addressing when launching and funding a startup:

Advisory board members can provide significant leverage to grow and scale, so it’s important to choose the right people. Here’s how to assess potential candidates for your startup venture.

Investors look for the right team with a great product, knowing that the great product will never come to market if the team is not right. So the perfect entrepreneurial team needs to possess certain technical capacities, such as finance, marketing, engineering, design, and operations. However, it also needs to possess the right personalities that mesh well with one another in a startup setting.