The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #121 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Stop Whining. Suffering Is Part of Entrepreneurship Why Enthusiastic Entrepreneurs Are More Successful Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Stop Whining. Suffering Is Part of Entrepreneurship Lost deals, silent prospects, churning customers, and outages on your wife’s birthday. Suffering is...
12 days ago • 7 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #120 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: ISO 27001 Certification: Check. Maintenance: Good Luck The World Is Changing Faster Than Your Business Plan Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS ISO 27001 Certification: Check. Maintenance: Good Luck The audit is one day. The maintenance is 365. Here’s what startups get wrong after their ISO...
19 days ago • 8 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #119 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Out-of-Office Replies Are Making You Obsolete Why Escalation Is Every Entrepreneur’s Worst Move Stop Budgeting Like a Consumer. Forecast Like an Entrepreneur Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Out-of-Office Replies Are Making You Obsolete Out-of-office replies feel harmless. But chain...
26 days ago • 9 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #118 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: You Took Investor Funding. How Do You Get Out Again? Your Business Doesn’t Matter. The Universe Said So Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS You Took Investor Funding. How Do You Get Out Again? Two co-founders asked me an important question over a beer: “How do we ever get out of investor...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #117 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: AI Takes Your Meeting Notes. But Who Reads Them? Tactical Terms: How To Turn Vague Discussions Into Action Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS AI Takes Your Meeting Notes. But Who Reads Them? AI meeting notes feel productive. But the decisions that matter are taken in bar conversations or...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #116 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: The Best Entrepreneurs Know When to Slow Down Move Fast and Break Things, Or Think First and Win? Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS The Best Entrepreneurs Know When to Slow Down Speed is an entrepreneur’s superpower — until it isn’t. Here are 5 situations where slowing down delivers better...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #115 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Always On-Call: The Reality for Every Entrepreneur Only in Switzerland: When Tech Entrepreneurs Meet in a Shooting Range Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Always On-Call: The Reality for Every Entrepreneur Like parenting, entrepreneurs can’t opt out of crises. Stay calm, always carry your...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #114 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Cut Costs, Boost Sales: The Entrepreneur’s Tightrope The AI Tightrope: Chasing Wonders or Following Pragmatism? Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Cut Costs, Boost Sales: The Entrepreneur’s Tightrope In good times, business is easy: Demand and investor appetite are soaring. But what about...
2 months ago • 6 min read
The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #113 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: 24 Hours to Fix a Disaster: A True SaaS Recovery Story Stop Testing the Safe Parts of Your Code: A Real-Life Story Please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon,Tom TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS 24 Hours to Fix a Disaster: A True SaaS Recovery Story When a data migration went wrong and wiped production data on a Thursday, our team had...
2 months ago • 8 min read