Note: This article also appeared in Entrepreneur Middle East, and can be viewed on the site here. Business will always test you. It might be the loss of an account, conflict with others – or much smaller issues that can ruin your confidence and chip away your...
The lean startup theory was the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Eric Ries. Having seen three promising firms fall by the wayside in the early 2000s, Ries spotted one single common denominator that he believed led to the failures. In this article we take a look at how Ries’s methodology has since gone on to change the way business people and professors around the world take on the startup challenge. Pay close attention, you aspiring entrepreneurs, because there is much to learn here.
Let me clarify upfront that this is not an article on how to get rich in seven easy steps. I'm just not a fan of that way of thinking – suggesting, as those articles do, that there is some sort of standard formula to follow in the pursuit of wealth. And also I am...
Regular readers may remember my article from a few months back in which I compiled some of my favourite quotes. Because the piece was a big hit (one of our most read to date), I thought I'd once again round up some favourite words from leaders and great minds...
Note: This article also appeared in Entrepreneur Middle East, and can be viewed on the site here. Your entrepreneurial success will be challenged and threatened by many obstacles along the way. Now you probably think the vast majority of these will be outside...
Note: This article also appeared in Entrepreneur Middle East, and can be viewed on the site here. Fear of financial hardships, fear of losing a client, fear that the business is simply not going to work out in a crowded and competitive marketplace –...
Note: This article also appeared in Entrepreneur Middle East, and can be viewed on the site here. There comes a time for most entrepreneurs when they consider – however briefly – the thought of taking on an employee. For most, however, this idea is quickly dismissed...
Note: This article also appeared in Entrepreneur Middle East, and can be viewed on the site here. I don’t do complex. This goes for every aspect of my life – I don’t like clutter, I don’t like having fifty irons in the fire at once, I don’t like a to-do list that...
The freelance economy is booming. In fact, it is the fastest growing sector of the global workforce, as workers from all over the world continue to say goodbye to their day jobs and embrace self-employed life. So many have taken the plunge, in fact, that it is...
There are countless statistics which make for quite difficult reading when it comes to startup survival rates. For example, stats out of the United States tell us that nine out of ten startups fail in the long-run and only a quarter of new startups make it past the...
It’s already been five years since the blockbuster movie "The Social Network" roared into cinemas, giving us a Hollywood-style view of Mark Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise from Harvard dropout to tech billionaire. At the time of the movie’s release, Facebook was just six...