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"The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship" - ibuildcompanies by Jeanne Heydecker

The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

I'm not into conspiracies or wear tin foil hats but there has definitely been a significant rise in high profile suicides of C-Level employees and founders over the past few years. People must marvel at the idea that someone so successful, so admired, and so well known would commit suicide ...
Four Parts to Finding Your Purpose and Two Paths for Getting There - ibuildcompanies.com by Jeanne Heydecker

Four Questions to Finding Your Purpose and Two Paths for Getting There

PART ONE: FINDING YOUR PURPOSE Ever have an existential crisis where all of a sudden, you're writing a line of code or answering another customer service call when suddenly that flash of light hits you and you think, "is this all there is to life"? Why do you live? Where ...
Women in the Workforce- ibuildcompanies by Jeanne Heydecker

Why Leaders Can’t Have a Bad Day at Work

I once worked for a company that was known to be run by an a**hole. When I first gave my notice to join the company, I had a number of people in my industry share this information and telling me it was a bad idea, but confident that I could ...
Free downloadable business development planning templates for startups - ibuildcompanies.com by Jeanne Heydecker

Templates for Helping You Develop New Business Models

Earlier today, we discussed our approach to developing business ideas into new business models and thought you might find it useful to see the types of documents we use to assist companies build out new business models and expand their businesses. PLEASE NOTE: These are PDF samples of our Excel ...
Product Launches - ibuildcompanies.com by Jeanne Heydecker

ibuildcompanies.com GOES LIVE IN SINGAPORE

Monday, April 8, 2019 — SINGAPORE: ibuildcompanies.com is proud to announce they are now open for business focusing on tech incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces in Singapore. They are a management consulting company set up to assist organizations that need assistance in growing their companies to the next level or ...
Three Reasons Why Your Project Tanked

Three Reasons Why Your Project Tanked

#1: They Don’t Understand What to Do After 25 years of managing projects big and small, I’ve seen a lot of failure. While many of those failures came through poor planning, unrealistic expectations or simply lack of funds, I reflected across them all and realized something: most project failures come from ...