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6 Keys To Growing Your Career Through The Gig Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Don’t wait for your next company layoff to get you started.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

But if you’re in a competitive space where you want to get a little more engineering done before the world is ready to start researching you then you may choose to delay. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.” They seldom scoop fundings.

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