
3 lessons from a thriving social impact company
Raoul and Manon Becher from Starters4Communities share their top 3 lessons on navigating change and creating a thriving business with social impact.

Deep Dive: 7 reasons why talking to potential customers is scary
The 7 reasons you might find it scary to reach out to your potential customers and how to deal with the scaries.

Link about it: The way people think counterintuitively. And how to be generous and how to be wild?
We think we’re better thinkers than we are. We misjudge many situations unfortunately. And shots on rewilding, status, and generosity.

Deep Dive: The 9 reasons you resist picking a niche and how to deal with them
The 9 reasons you resist picking a niche and how to deal with them. By choosing a niche you get to make high-value solutions, become thé person to call. It allows for a clearer brand and specificity in your communication. And you free up mental capacity and get to see a clear path to making your business succeed.

3 lessons to steadily grow your business
Niels Klabbers of TeamQ14 shares his top 3 lessons on getting your business up and running and being an entrepreneur and employer.

3 lessons for the front runner in business
Per Vonk of Mesjokke shares his top 3 lessons on perseverance while being ahead on the market, perfectionism and realism.

Link about it: From raising your prices in order to keep up, to raising them in order to create more value.
How should you raise your prices? Do trees move? What happens when they do?

3 lessons for the headstrong social entrepreneur (and anyone else!)
About the value of a good crisis, social entrepreneurship before it was cool and how to work together when you’re very good at being headstrong.

Find your marketing sweet spot
Social media marketing seems to be the go to solution to reach potential customers these days. There are other and often less expensive ways to get your voice out there. 3 ways and examples.

3 polarities for creatives running a company
Sometimes you want one thing in work, but need to do the other thing or you just want to do both but they get in each others way. Polarities you could say. How to deal with them?

To un-go from the flow
Going with the flow is easy at first. At some point the flow will not feel like a flow anymore. It is not easy to act when the conventional does not meet your needs anymore. There are three steps to get you out of the rut and into designing a life, education, company - you name it! - that works for you.

Trust & Chemistry
When you decide to look into co-foundership you might want to consider what is important to make it work together. Do you share the same values? And do you complement each other? Evaluate your current relationship. A basis of trust and chemistry is what you need.

Calculated Risks
Entrepreneurs are often viewed as risk takers. That doesn’t mean they are reckless. These are often calculated risks based upon worst-case scenarios with contingency plans. So some risks won’t hurt you, unless you think about them at least a bit wisely.

Chaordic Balance
When a business becomes bigger it usually adopts more systems and rules to function. Innovation and creating new things becomes more difficult resulting in stagnation. On the other hand you have the creatives who thrive in a free environment and form creative ideas like there is no tomorrow. But the risk thereof is not finishing projects and risking no output. The secret lies in balancing Chaos and Order.

Can endless work be part of proper self-care?
If your work is fulfilling and gives you energy you’re one happy person. Fulfillment is part of self-care and therefore quite important. But when is it not fulfilling anymore? What is the tipping point of your fulfilling work becoming too much? Think about it.