Successful entrepreneurship is built on a few things. Chief among them are the novelty and demand for your offering and the reputation of your name. For SMEs, that means your brand’s name, the clout it holds, and the founder’s/CEO’s reputation. Trust is the most valuable …
How to Be A Sore Loser and Ruin Your Reputation
There are many valuable takeaways from Trump’s presidential victory. And this weekend taught us the most valuable of all. Following Trump’s historic inauguration on Friday, we saw how quickly people can destroy their reputation if they don’t accept defeat with grace and class. I’m referring …
The Liability of a Picture
Social media has given rise to an obsession with selfies and the documentation of average, everyday events, such as the strange habit some people have of taking pictures of their food and then posting it on Facebook for their friends to see. This picture sharing …
Never Partner With Someone in Business Just Because They Have Deep Pockets
I was awoken around 5AM to a text message from my business partner. It read “spoke to Bob… sounds like he’s given up.” Translation: My business partner was informing me that one of our startup tech investments, which combined we had roughly $150,000 of our …
Lock8’s Bike Technology - A Hipster’s Dream
It takes more than just great ideas to chisel a great startup. It’s immensely important to have strong people driving it too, and every once in a while you come across a startup with a great idea, driven by great people. That’s what we have …
New App Reput Brings Real World Reputation Online
The shape of an idea was coming to Chus Carasa as his father started to recall the memory of a friend. With melancholy in his voice, Chus’ father spoke of a very humble man who had saved more than a hundred lives throughout a lifetime …