The Smart Way You Should Manage HR

By Brett Fox | November 14, 2018

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…

How Do You Get Big Customers To Buy From Your Tiny Startup?

By Brett Fox | November 12, 2018

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 | November 7, 2018

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…

How Should You Handle Ethics Issues As CEO?

By Brett Fox | November 6, 2018

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…

How Do You Know If Facebook Is Trying To Destroy Your Company?

By Brett Fox | November 5, 2018

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…

What Personality Type Do You Need To Be A Great CEO?

By Brett Fox | October 30, 2018

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…

Why Can’t You Hire Engineers For Your Startup?

By Brett Fox | October 29, 2018

“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 | October 24, 2018

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.

What Critical Thing Do You Not Realize As A Founder?

By Brett Fox | October 21, 2018

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 | October 17, 2018

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…