The Smart Way You Should Manage HR By Brett Fox Of all the functions you are likely to overlook as you build your company, HR has to be at the top of the list. However, HR can be a huge difference maker if you get it right. No, I’m not suggesting you hire an HR…
There are some meetings you never forget, and this meeting with a very well known VC fund was one of them. We were just starting to raise our Series B funding, and, the fund we were meeting with had the CEO of a former portfolio company sit in on the meeting. The meeting was going…
How You Can Successfully Outsource Your Engineering By Brett Fox Outsourcing your engineering development may sound like a good move on paper, but can you actually successfully manage a remote team? It’s harder than it looks. And it’s even harder if you aren’t technical. I’ll walk you through how to make sure your outsourcing is…
I was walking around the office late one Friday afternoon. I was chatting with everyone, cubicle by cubicle, about was going on. Then I got to “Chris’” cubicle, and I noticed something on his computer. Chris was looking at porn. Chris quickly switched from the porn website to another website. I went back to my…
I was having lunch with my friend Matt. Matt was, at the time, a Senior VP at Maxim and Maxim was our largest competitor. I had sold my company about four months earlier, and we were just catching up. He told me something that absolutely blew my mind. “We had a task force devoted to…
Being a great CEO has nothing to do with being extroverted. In fact, being an extrovert doesn’t give you any advantage versus introverts. There is, however, a personality trait that you do need to be a great startup CEO. I’ll tell you what that personality trait is in this video. Do You Want To…
“We’re doing well if we hire 10% of the people that we have face to face interviews with,” I said to my cofounder and VP Engineering, Jeroen. We had hired our initial team of ten engineers through our network. So the numbers were much better for us. Now our hiring was starting to slow down,…
What Is Your NDA Strategy? By Brett Fox Non Disclosure Agreements are virtually unenforceable. So why should you insist on having people sign NDAs? I’ll explain why NDAs should be part of your business strategy in this short video. Do You Want To Grow Your Business? Maybe I Can Help. Click Here.
I was at a lunch meeting with the head of the venture capital fund that was sponsoring me as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). I said to Mike, “I know if we get funded, we will succeed.” Mike looked at me and said, “I can think of 100 things that will kill your company.” Mike’s tone…
What’s The One Preventable Mistake You’re Likely To Make Starting Out? By Brett Fox There’s a mistake that you are likely to make when you are building your business. I can just about guarantee it. I made this exact mistake when I was starting my company, and it hurt us. I’ll explain what this mistake…