5 New Years Resolutions Every Entrepreneur Should Make by Mona Bijoor For me, the end of the year is filled with lots of reflection. I like to pull up the list of resolutions I’ve made for the year and figure out whether I still have time left to accomplish them....
7 Steps for Building a Financial Plan for the FutureEvery September, I begin the financial planning process for both my business and my household for the upcoming year.Most people don’t think they have the time to do this (or don’t feel it’s important), but I believe...
How to Fix How We See Self-CareIt’s not about the latest indulgence. It is a necessity, and should be part of everyone’sdaily discipline.By Mona BijoorNot so long ago, the idea of self-care was simple: It was about the things you did foryourself to stay mentally...
Startups and Downs: Book Tour LearningsOver the last couple weeks, my book tour has taken me across the country — NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, Business Rockstars, Springboard, Techstars and the Penn Club. During conversations about Startups and Downs with different...
As A Founder Who Stepped Down – My Advice to WeWorkFor a long time, most conversations about Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos were about how smart, amazing, and innovative they were as company founders. But cut to 2019, and the talk has shifted to, “Does he...
The Biggest Benefit of Business School Isn’t the Degree Everyday I return to the unforgettable lessons I learned at WhartonThis week I kicked off the Startups and Downs: The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs book tour at my alma mater, Wharton, and it was a great...
Startups & Downs is Finally HereToday’s media landscape is filled with stories of entrepreneurial ventures and IPOs, which captivate audiences by focusing on major successes or massive exits, failures and downfalls. However, a lot happens between the...
Teaching the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs As a founder of two companies, I’ve hired over 200 people. Interviewing, training, and coaching employees has taught me a lot about the skills I want my own children to have—and traits I don’t want them to have when...
Ten years ago, I was using my own capital to fund my own idea: to start a software business in the fashion industry. I’d never launched a company before, and I felt pressure to grow rapidly—otherwise I thought I’d be wasting time and money. I thought that with enough...
For my upcoming book Start-Ups and Downs: The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs,I interviewed 10 successful founders so I could get inside their heads and understand the strategies that drove their triumphs.It didn’t matter whether I was talking to founders who...
In 2014, it seemed like pretty much anyone with a pulse and pitch deck was capable of raising huge amounts of capital from prestigious venture capital firms at sky-high valuations. Here we are, four years later and times have changed. VCs inked a little more than...
