September 2020

It was painful to get out of bed. The 8-hour hike straight up and down the side of a mountain in Chilean Patagonia had me not wanting to move at…

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It’s been a rough year for business, there’s no doubt about that. The pandemic has taken its toll on small businesses. Despite the hardships and challenges, it’s not all doom and gloom. This new survey by Bluehost shows optimism is aplenty, with 3 in 4 small businesses being hopeful about the future.

Web hosting specialists Bluehost analyzed the responses of 500 small business owners in the US. The ‘State of Small Business Survey’ explored business owners’ thoughts and plans as we move into 2021.

Young entrepreneurs generally seem to be reluctant to consider using debt to help finance their businesses. The reasons they cite are many.  Often, they are concerned that they already have a heavy debt burden due to student loans from college.  Others tell me they watched their parents get deep into debt and don’t want to […]

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It’s 2018, a special night out. The restaurant shouldn’t have been as disappointing as it was. The room was beautiful, the staff was trying hard, the menu was ambitious–and yet it fell flat.

I realized that the problem is one that many of us face:

All shift long, there’s a lot to do. Another plate to fire, another customer to serve, another plate to clean. And yet this customer doesn’t care about all of that. For any given diner, this may very well be the only time he or she will ever eat here. For any given diner, this dish, this interaction–that’s the only chance you’re going to get.

It doesn’t matter to them that you have 100 tops to serve in the next hour. It doesn’t matter that the last week’s worth of customers all left happy. To this customer, there’s just this one time.

Over and over.

Just this one time.

Over and over.

Back in March, 500 Startups set up a dedicated Slack channel to facilitate investor networking during its first ever Digital Demo Day. The platform, renamed 500vc, proved so popular that the team decided to turn it into a permanent meeting venue. Deprived of travel and in-person events, more than 1,300 vetted investors from around 50 […]

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One of the benefits of technology when it comes to entrepreneurship is the ability to run a business without having to be locked in an office.  Many businesses can be operated from a bookstore, cafe or even on the beach. All you need is a decent laptop and wi-fi.

But with the ease of being able to work remotely comes some security risks.  By using your laptop in public places you may be exposing yourself to hackers, device theft, and noisy people sitting next to you in the cafe.

Continue reading How To Use Your MacBook Safely In Public at StartUp Mindset.