The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2021

“Every article will serve up tactics that you can use today to change your company and your career.”

 
This was one of the three promises we made when we first launched The Review back in 2013. It was a pledge to stay in the tactical weeds, to find the sweet spot of both enduring, evergreen advice and the “I’ve gotta try that out today” kind of read. (Or as one of our readers recently put it, “oddly specific, yet perfectly helpful.”)

There’s power in the specifics, in the counsel that shares the how-to, not just the what-you-should-do. In the story of the CEO who analyzed every 15-minute increment of his calendar for the past two years. In the targeted question set one founder uses to compel others to give her better feedback. In the detailed framework for hiring a VPE. In the advice on how to find a signature topic for your first public speaking keynote. In the case study on how one marketing team secured +100 podcast interviews for their founders in six months.

If these specific examples sound somewhat familiar, then you’ve been reading along this year, as they were all drawn from articles we’ve penned in the past 365 days. And they’re still top of mind for us right now for a particular reason.

Since 2013, we’ve committed ourselves to an annual ritual, one that serves as an opportunity to both take stock and remind ourselves of that early promise to stay tactical. Each time we turn the page to the new year, we comb through every article we published over the last one to concentrate the standout tactics into one actionable guide of advice. (To see how this project has evolved over time, check out our installments from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.)

As we set about to pluck out the tactics, quotes and frameworks from the previous year that we haven’t stopped thinking about, a few themes invariably start to emerge. It wouldn’t be a 2021 retrospective without a nod to the “Great Resignation” — folks up and down the org chart are reconsidering their career goals and resolving to pour more into their own personal development. It’s a topic we tackled head-on, whether by tapping our First Round community to gather their tips on how ICs can take charge of their own careers, getting therapist Minaa B.’s take on making self-care tactical, or crowd-sourcing ideas for upping your management game.

 
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