If you’re running an efficient agency business, at some point, you’re going to want to scale it up. Maybe you want more revenue, or, if you’re protecting your margins, more profit, or maybe you just want […]
Author: Steve Eakin
Steve Eakin is a startup founder, Jeet Kune Do black belt and taco addict. He is the CEO of Startup Black Belt: Helping people build, grow and scale their startups and the CTO of VenPath: Helping apps create a new revenue stream from their data.
Want to Start Earning Money Online? Here Are 13 Ways You Can Get Started
Everybody knows at this point that a standard salary isn’t enough to thrive anymore. You, like most employees, are getting paid less and less — yet expenses keep on rising at an alarming rate. You […]
What’s the Point of Getting a Billion Dollars?
The startup world is obsessed with a number: 1,000,000,000. That’s the number you have to be valued at to be considered a “unicorn.” That’s also the number most founders have in their head when they’re pitching […]
Secret “Hack” That Helps You Build Your Startup Faster Than Ever
This is the one simple trick you’ve been looking for. If you’re looking to launch your first startup, or find success with a new one, this is what you’ve been looking for. It will get […]
Don’t Think You Have Enough Funds To Build Your App? Think Again.
When thinking about startups, you probably have a vision of a billion dollar app. You’d be right. The world is continuing to shift its Internet usage towards mobile, and apps continue to dominate the mobile world […]
Stop Calling Millennials Entitled
How many times are boomers and generation-X’ers going to say Millennials are entitled little brats that have zero patience? “Those Millennials want more and more and more, and they don’t even want to wait their […]
The #1 Productivity Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs Make
Most people, entrepreneurs included, have a typical day that might look something like this: Wake up, check your email, react to whatever is happening in your inbox and on social media, have lunch, have some […]
Helping People Quickly “Get” Your Business
When you’re explaining your business, your idea, or what your startup does, people had better understand it quickly. If they don’t, there’s a very little chance of getting them to invest. Or buy. Or even care […]
The Quickest Way to Make Your Idea Valuable
A good idea is like a baby. If it’s yours, you love it no matter what everyone says. That’s good—exactly how it should be. The problem is that you get so attached to this idea, so in […]
CEOs: Surround Yourself With People Who Bring Out the Best in You
When you run a business, the weight of the world often feels like it rests squarely on your shoulders. Every decision and every problem keeps piling up with no one to share the burden. Sometimes, […]
How to Figure out Which Business to Go into Today
It seems like everyone on the planet wants to start their own business and become an eccentric billionaire. It almost seems trendy. #Entrepreneurship and #Hustle dominate your Instagram feed, but there’s more too it than that. […]
Are You Afraid To Build Your App Business?
We live in the age of the mobile phone. There’s simply no other way to put it. It might not last forever, and I have no idea what might come next. But with more and more […]