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10 Most Common Pitfalls when Growing Your Business

10 Common Pitfalls In Your business

It is the dream of most small business owners to expand eventually. However, you need to plan carefully and avoid some common pitfalls when designing your growth strategy. When it comes to growing your business, many things can go wrong. If you’re not careful, you could make some common mistakes that dramatically set your business … Read more

Logan Green – A Quiet Man with Big Dreams

Many believe that the CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations are all “loud” and charismatic. Some bosses are indeed outgoing and confident, but others are more introverted and prefer to be out of the spotlight. Logan Green, the co-founder of Lyft, is the archetype of the latter. Green’s ride-sharing business has grown into a … Read more

Pick yourself up!

Mårten Mickos is the recent CEO of HackerOne, one of the most well-known white-hat hacking platforms in the world. Mickos was the CEO of MySQL, a Swedish software business, prior to joining HackerOne. “Confidence, persistence, and leadership,” according to Mickos, have helped him grow as a leader. As bizarre as it may sound, Mickos’ confidence … Read more

Ladies (& Gents), we think it’s time to ‘Lean In’

Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, joined the company in 2008 and is credited for helping to turn it profitable as the brains behind the introduction of subtly placed advertising. By 2013, Facebook’s mobile advertising accounted for 30% of the company’s sales, even though this outlet had provided no returns the previous year. Sandberg’s bestselling … Read more

Sometimes the answer is NO!

Evan Spiegel, a co-founder of Snap Inc. and developer of the popular social media site Snapchat, grew his small student project into a multibillion-dollar corporation. According to Spiegel, his ‘99 per cent law’, is the key to Snapchat’s growth. Perhaps counterintuitively, this involves rejecting 99 per cent of suggestions and ideas! In 2013, when Facebook … Read more