How to reach your first $1M investment: Tips from someone who’s actually done it I’ve actually done it multiple times — here’s what I’ve learned Rethink how you approach funding I know it’s easy to assume that securing a round of funding is a signal that you’re on your path to success, but you may find the reality to be a lot different. Fundraising should be considered a byproduct of your success — you have to already have a solid reputation and a genuinely valuable product or service to get funding in the first place....

As the social news, links, and community website Reddit continues to explode in popularity, it is slowly catching the attention of beady-eyed IT pros everywhere. This is leading to a crackdown on the site’s use in many workplaces, something that we have deemed an affront to the Internet. Happily, as it the case with nearly everything, where there is a will, there is way. Yes, you can read Reddit at work and not get caught....

Let’s say you’re astartupfounder, who comes up with the next new idea in marketing, scaling, or strategic business development. If you are 100% sure that your randomly picked idea will work (maybe you’ve asked a fortune-teller or made a tarot spread), I won’t waste your time. But if you really need to sift diamonds from fakes and create a marketing campaign that will definitely work, here are my three favorite approaches to testing ideas that my team at Refocus....

As a young boy I once stole (borrowed) a book from my sisters room about love and sex for teenage girls. She must have been 11 and I was 8. I knew way too much about what it meant to be a teenage girl by the time I was 9. One chapter was about love and how to know if you were really in love. The author described a simple trick to find out if you were really in love: if you were cuddling with your lover and thought ‘Oh look at these cute little pimples on his or her back” you were probably in love....

As a young boy I once stole (borrowed) a book from my sisters room about love and sex for teenage girls. She must have been 11 and I was 8. I knew way too much about what it meant to be a teenage girl by the time I was 9. One chapter was about love and how to know if you were really in love. The author described a simple trick to find out if you were really in love: if you were cuddling with your lover and thought ‘Oh look at these cute little pimples on his or her back” you were probably in love....