
Five Easy Ways to Boost Your Team Productivity
While team productivity is one of the critical factors for the success and growth of any type of business, don’t get discouraged if you notice a decline in employee motivation and performance. Consider these proven and time-tested practices to enhance the productivity of your team.

Four Lessons the Pandemic Taught Us About the Real Estate Market
Now that it’s been two and a half years since the initial shock of the pandemic, it’s a good time to take a look back and see what we could learn from all of this. In this article, I take stock of my personal experiences in real estate and share the four lessons that the pandemic taught us about this market.

6 Things to Look at When Investing in a Startup
As an angel investor or a venture capitalist, it’s important to look at certain factors to determine if a company is worth investing in or not. Here are the six questions that will help you make an informed decision on whether a startup is worth it.

How can automation help businesses accommodate for current labor shortages?
Before COVID-19 stole the headlines, there was an increasingly urgent conversation growing across multiple industries regarding the shift of workplace demographics that lay a few

The Four Pillars of Real Flexibility: An Honest Look at the Next Phase of Work
The topic of home, office, or home-office hybrid has been more or less exhausted over the course of the pandemic. By now, most companies have

Going Deeper: Investing in African Well Building Projects
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared access to clean water and sanitation as a basic human right, yet millions don’t have an opportunity

Two Goals That Are Actually Worth Setting in 2022
It’s February. The conversational buzz around goal setting that comes like clockwork every new year has more or less died down to a flatline, where

Failure is Not Final
Young startup founders often ask me for advice, and one of the important lessons I have learned over the years is that the old adage,

Post-COVID Outlook: Customer Experience, Total Experience, & The One Thing You Can’t Get Wrong
Zain Jaffer discusses how our approaches to Customer Experience need to evolve. Last year in an interview, I made the case that providing an excellent

Hard Truths Around Hardware: Non-Obvious Reasons You’re Seeing Slow/No VC Traffic
During 2020, Tesla’s market cap increased by over $500 billion. That means it’s worth roughly as much as the combined market cap of the next

The Budget Triad: The Strategy That Kept Me Afloat as a CEO
During my time with Vungle, it was my responsibility to make sure my team was in the best possible position to face the year ahead.

What Exactly I’m Looking For As A Prop Tech VC
Want to pitch me an idea? Here’s what you need to know.In the world of startups, so many people ask me what I’m looking for

Founder’s Advice: What You Need To Know About Raising Money
In the world of start-ups, ideas are the starting point… but only the starting point. The age-old maxim applies: execution is everything. And usually, execution

One Answer For How to Find Money for Your Startup: Be Bold
With a speed of technological advances these days, creating a startup requires a sense of urgency, endless energy, passion, tenacity, a great idea… and money.

5 Ways to Create a Wow! Customer Experience
In an interview with Kristin Marquet of Authority Magazine, I shared stories that shaped the development of Vungle and “5 Ways to Create a

Talking with Giants: Advice to Entrepreneurs on How to Talk to Potential Investors with Ben Narasin (Part 4)
https://youtu.be/-pktb4XIY84 Before the pandemic, I had an opportunity to sit down with Ben Narasin, Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates (NEA). NEA is one of