Who would win? MLK versus Henry Ford
This past week, I as well as a group of respected colleagues, were confronted with the dilemma to choose between the following quotes to decide which of the two is more inspiring to me:
“I have a d...
May 13, 2018
My Mic Drop Moment
Originally posted on Medium by Eric Janssen, who is a member of Founder’s Only and occasionally guest posts here.
Every time I prep a sales session for a group of entrepreneurs, I seriously con...
May 4, 2018
How to Make Great Customer Stories
Originally posted on LinkedIn by Eric Janssen, who is a member of Founder’s Only and occasionally guest posts here.
A problem I've seen often in high-growth companies is an inability to scale s...
April 15, 2018
Fur’s Getting Ruffled by Smarter Folks
By now we think we're pretty smart - we've made it easier for folks to navigate and read one of the most complicated things in the world to read - legal documents. But then along has come "smart...
March 28, 2018
Being Your Own Customer – Perks and Pitfalls
Startup founders are often “sipping their own Kool Aid”. In the early days of a startup company, the founders often envision and believe with almost cult-like intensity in a product or mar...
March 4, 2018
Happy Lunar New Year (of the Earth Dog)
Written by Rajah Lehal
With research by Thomas Southmayd
Happy Lunar New Year!
According to TheChineseZodiac.org, the Chinese Zodiac’s complexity “lies in the Oriental s...
February 19, 2018
Doing More with Less, and Less with More
This week my beloved Clausehound.com was accepted into the CTA New York accelerator. Our small team has been scattered around the countryside this month with team members in Ottawa, Toronto, Boston,...
February 4, 2018
Giving and Getting Advice
I had the pleasure this weekend of judging the 2017 IBK Business Plan competition which brings MBA students from around the world in a head to head elimination competition, showcasing the next big thi...
January 20, 2018
From Student to Entrepreneur, and Back
And what an education it was. I never considered myself to be the entrepreneurial “type” – whatever that means. My vision for how my career would unfold was extraordinarily ordinary:...
January 13, 2018
Long Roadmaps Kill Innovation
Originally posted on Medium.com by Navid Nathoo.
Whether you’re building innovative products at large companies or small startups, you shouldn’t have a long roadmap. Actually, chances are...
January 7, 2018
Angel investors – guiding you through the abyss
So you have an idea.
It starts in your head and your excitement leads you to bring it to the world.
You describe it to some folks. Some of those folks understand it, some don’t. Some quest...
December 30, 2017
Late Night Musings
Originally posted on Medium.com by Alkarim Nasser.
“Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” — Alfred D. Souza
Most goals we have are destinations. They manifest as a lifest...
December 23, 2017
To My Younger Self
Originally posted on Medium.com by Navid Nathoo.
Growing up is confusing.
This is a guide to help you, probably a high school student, navigate your life as you’re trying to figure out the w...
December 15, 2017
Pattern Matching
I just watched this video on spirals and it struck me that pattern matching is very important to us collectively. Pattern matching is helpful.
It makes us better athletes, more efficien...
December 11, 2017
Are Startups the Anti-Drake? Why I chose to go from 100(k) to 0, real quick!
Originally posted on LinkedIn by Chris Snoyer, who is a member of Founder’s Only and occasionally guest posts here.
TL;DR - Startups take time, you'll start from the bottom and be there l...
December 1, 2017
Researching Openness
I’ve been researching the concept of “openness” in organizations. I came across this concept when I watched this fireside chat with Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian at Startup Battlefie...
November 25, 2017
Who Are We?
Our team is growing at my beloved Clausehound.com, and that is great. It is no longer a big panic to get from version to version or from demo to demo. New staff and old staff are starting ...
November 18, 2017
Side-Hustling Your Way Into a New Career
For this week's Founder's Only I dug into Faheem's podcast archives. Faheem is a member of Founder's Only, and he and I were MBA friends over a decade ago. We both ran the campus entrepreneu...
November 10, 2017
The Co-Founder Relationship
Julie Zuzek "the Corporate Yogi" and I have been friends for nearly a decade, and I have often tried to apply her approach to the “entrepreneur mindset” over the course of my own founder jou...
November 3, 2017
Five ideas for getting talent right
Originally posted on ImpactAlpha, Ryan is a the Principal of RGL Strategic, co-founder of CanadaHelps and a member of Founder's Only.
A couple of years ago, I headed up the social entrepreneu...
October 27, 2017
On the road again
Originally posted on Startups & Venture Capital, Dominic is the Founder of TWG and a member of Founder's Only. Dominic and Rajah have been friends for Dominic's more than...
October 20, 2017
Find What You Love And Let It Kill You
Originally posted on LinkedIn by Chris Snoyer, who is a member of Founder's Only and occasionally guest posts here.
I was grabbing a coffee at Le Gourmand in Toronto and I saw a guy wearing a...
October 13, 2017
The New One Percent Is Giving
As soon as I met Jennifer and Upside Foundation of Canada, I liked what they were all about. Their foundation promotes the allocation of 1% of your company’s equity to a charitable purpose. Rese...
October 6, 2017
Why I Buy Beers I Can’t Afford
Originally posted on Linkedin, with additional comments from discussions with Founders Only.
When you’re a young, broke student, beers are like gold. In college dorms, they’re an entirel...
September 29, 2017
How Transcendental Meditation Taught Me to Take Risks
Orignally posted on Huffington Post, with additional notes as provided to Founders Only.
Image by John Kelsey
Transcendental meditation is having a moment. Everyone from Hugh Jackman to Oprah...
September 15, 2017