Category: Management

Business Plan Idea - Entrepreneurship - Founder - Startup - Reagan Pollack

Best Books for Entrepreneurs to Read [Updated 2022]

Best Books for Entrepreneurs [Updated 2022] Our list of the best books for entrepreneurs to get your next big idea, launch a startup, raise Venture Capital, and grow. Whether we’re starting, growing, or struggling in our businesses, helpful books can bring us much-needed insights, strategies, and motivation to press on and unlock success, despite the …

Small Business SCORE.org

SCORE.org Presentation on Startups and New Businesses

SCORE.org – No Startup Left Behind I was recently asked to be a guest speaker at a SCORE.org event in California for the Capitol Corridor region. As per their website, SCORE is the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, and is dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve …

No Startup Left Behind - Learn How to Launch an Idea and Skyrocket to Startup Success - Reagan T. Pollack

No Startup Left Behind: Learn How to Launch an Idea and Skyrocket to Startup Success

No Startup Left Behind  New Book Now Available! No Startup Left Behind is a breath of fresh air in the coddled, avoid-failure-at-all-cost world of traditional entrepreneurship that aims to wait until passion strikes to even launch, please every customer at any cost, and over promise but underwhelm every market. Pollack simplifies the startup journey for …

5 Cash Flow Tips for Startups - Reagan Pollack

5 Cash Flow Tips to Save Your Startup

Hello Cash Flow. I Love You. When I was 20, launching my first Internet company out of my dorm room at Babson College, I focused about 90% of my effort on building the product with about 10% on generating our first sale.  One area that never crossed my mind (until it was almost too late) …

Startup Zen

Finding Calm in the COVID-19 Storm

Startups are not only a biggest test of our abilities to execute on a market hunch, but more deeply, the limitations of our own mind. They fully test everything we think we know about ourselves — from our deepest fears to our highest hopes — and most startups fail in the mind first, and the market second. …

Startup Success during COVID-19

Startup Success during COVID-19 – How to Thrive, Not Just Survive

During COVID-19, the world of business has come to an abrupt halt – nearly every industry, sector, and business type (products and services) have been and will be impacted by the pandemic. If you are on the fence still wondering if now might be a good time to start your new business, I say, “Yes! …

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest Co-founder of them all?

It was 2007 — with a freshly inked business degree hanging proudly on my wall, an empty 600 square-foot office space surrounding me, and a stack of resumes 3 inches thick, I sat back in my gray telescopic chair, fumbling through the first dozen resumes, each one looking identical to the last; “Lead Developer”, “Experienced …

Ready to give up? Just wait a second.

Startups — The Ultimate Video Game It’s the end of the year — end of a decade to be exact — and that’s the time when many Founders find themselves asking the hardest question that they’ll ever face — should I just give up on my startup? After running four startups, managing teams, and seeing …

Top 5 FAQs from 2019 Entrepreneurs

Looking back on 2019, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with and advising many different entrepreneurs. I’ve compiled my list of the top 5 most frequently asked questions asked by founders:  1. Do you think this is a “good” business idea?  What’s interesting, is that the most frequently asked question of “Do you think this …

Gratitude Positive Thinking Entrepreneur Reagan Pollack

How Great Advice Leads to Inaction (and how to fix it)

What’s the power of a thought?  Everywhere we turn we hear the advice, recommendations, opinions and suggestions of others — imploring us to focus harder, try with more gusto, defy the odds stacked against us, build the resolve to never give up — good advice we can usually all agree is needed to accomplish any …