Bootstrapping vs. venture capital: Growing a business without investors series | Part 3 (Want to start at the beginning? Read Part 1) This blog is written by Clay Upton, entrepreneur, patent holder, and founder of Bloom Growth. Read his full bio below.INDEX Why you need to test before scaling...
With remote work on the rise, businesses and employees alike are discovering the awesome, unexpected benefits of telecommuting: It's cheaper for employees and employers, absenteeism drops and there's less turnover overall. Productivity often increases, too — but...
Recently, I realized that I’ve been seeing my role of Integrator™ all wrong—and it changed everything about my work. In the fall I attended the Integrator Mastery Forum (IMF), led by Mark Winters, coauthor of Rocket Fuel. I arrived at the full-day workshop thinking...
Some ideas need a second consideration. Jon Gertner’s book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, is one of those reads that takes a culturally-presumed evil and flips our assumptions on their head: maybe a monopoly can be a good...
It’s official: Virtual teams are legit. More and more people are working remotely every year. Nine million people in the U.S. work from home at least half of the time. Almost 50% of all companies have plans to increase their virtual teams, and 37 percent of...
Ah, spreadsheets. So easy, so convenient. And so frustratingly difficult. If you’re tracking company data, you probably have a love/hate relationship with spreadsheets. They’re easy to use, but they can also be inconvenient and annoying. It’s a paradox, yet often...
You’ve rolled out Bloom Growth to multiple departments, and everyone in your company is getting on board. But as more departments are being added, it’s becoming a challenge to make sense of it all. You need a way to view and organize all of the metrics and...