When it’s time to size up your opposition, consultant and author Becky Sheetz invokes the wisdom of ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu: Know your enemy, and know yourself. 1. Cultivate spies. Hire your competition’s top salespeople — or at least invite them for lunch, dinner or cocktails. “It’s a great conversational way to find […]
Jon King and Jim Stott founded Stonewall Kitchen, which is an almost $100 million business. But 25 years ago, the business (and life) partners began their company with a series of happy accidents.
Hey, wanna feel old? Great. Let me a get a startup exec. on the phone. [Ring, ring] Hi there. I’m trying to reach Elena Gorman, product marketing lead at HipChat, the group-chat and file-sharing company. [Waiting] Elena, hello! Question for you: What do you think of when I say the word telephone?
This story appears in the November 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Most people haven’t heard of a scrappy little ski company called Renoun, but we gave it a lot of space in this issue — a story about founder Cyrus Schenck. I bet you’re wondering: How did Schenck pull that off? I’m going to tell you. […]
Is your business under new ownership? These entrepreneurs who bought existing businesses share how they made updates while keeping loyalists happy.
At Business Insider, we believe capitalism can and should be a force for good. With this inaugural edition of Business Insider 100: The Creators, we are celebrating leaders who embody this spirit. Many rankings focus only on those who have achieved great financial success. Our CEO Henry Blodget sums up the drawbacks of such a […]
