Cory Miller

Entrepreneurship

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  • Your First Three Critical Startup Partners

    Looking back on almost 5 years of full-time entrepreneurship, these are the first three critical startup partners I would suggest when getting started with a startup. 1. Significant Other Your significant other is your first, most valuable, most influential and primary partner in your business, even if he isn’t working IN the business with you.…

  • What Successful Startups Do and Never Stop Doing

    I saw a tweet today with a blurb to this Forbes post titled Unsolicited Advice to the New Yahoo! CEO and this quote in particular stood out to me. “Put together a small team of the best engineers, designers and product people you can find. Charter them with building something amazing that has to ship…

  • The 6+ Key Ingredients for Startup Success

    For an interview profile of our new startup accelerator in Oklahoma where I have volunteered to be a mentor, I was asked this question for a profile post: “What is the most important part of a company’s application when applying to an accelerator?” Some quick background on the question: The concept of startup accelerators has…

  • What Should You Stop, Start or Continue?

    As a part of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, an amazing organization of entrepreneur peers that I’ve been a part of since 2011, I recently went to our new board’s Strategy Summit where our facilitator shared this exercise called Stop, Start or Continue. It’s very easy and simple team exercise and the results can be profound for our…

  • 6 Ways to Combat Anger and Bitterness

    My business coach Michael Smith of iMentorLeaders.com says, “Anger and frustration come from unmet expectations.” It’s solid truth to know as you start or grow a business. Ever since I heard that truth and as I’ve gotten angry or frustrated with something in our business (or heck, my personal life for that matter), I’ve thought…