The Jason Nazar Show: Recent Episodes
Jason Lawrence Nazar
Nobody knows small businesses better than Jason Nazar. Jason is the Founder and CEO of Docstoc, the premier online destination for documents and resources to start, grow and manage a business. Docstoc has over 35 million registered users and makes every small business better. Jason is also the Creator & Host of Startups Uncensored, the longest running and most widely attended technology gathering in southern California, which regularly brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, techies and investors.
Before starting a business, make sure you know why you want to do so and understand what is motivating you....
So, how do you know when you should share your business idea with other people? In almost all situations, my advice is going to be, share your ideas with as many people in as many cases. Here's why...
Let’s talk about the best way to set goals. There’s a pretty common acronym called SMART goals that breaks down the different ways you want to set your goals to be the most effective...
Several years into Docstoc, I still work long hours and I expect our team to work long hours too. I can’t over emphasize the importance of work ethic...
So, what’s the best way to come up with business ideas? I think of finding business ideas as solving problems. Whether it's regarding your friends, family, work related or school related, what’s something that bothers you that is an opportunity to problem solve? A lot of times, those are the best business ideas...
A lot of folks will ask me, what’s the best corporate entity when starting a new business? You should always consult with an attorney, but as a very quick overview, there are four general types of structures...
What are the keys to speaking in public successfully? There are three things to remember...
There are a couple of really important things I’ve learned in raising money for Docstoc and for previous companies...
Everyone likes the idea of being unique but when it comes down to it, many of us never really separate from the pack...
Jason Nazar, co-founder and CEO of Docstoc (docstoc.com), talks about the key components of the final part of building an online product. The front-end and back-end of development are explained in this video.
Jason Nazar, co-founder and CEO of Docstoc (docstoc.com), explains the best way to put together the PRD, the product requirements document.
Jason Nazas explains the next important step in building an online product: wireframes. Wireframes are the blue print for your new product...
This episode provides a detailed look at the beginning stages of product development...
There are three things that I always try to watch out for when I hire a new employee....
There are five questions that I ask in every interview that are critical in making sure that you have the best interview to find the best candidate...
If you want to get your basic website up and on the internet very quickly, they are three ways you can go about it...
The best way to get your website built is to find a technical partner, whether that’s a co-founder or someone that you bring on early to help you build the website...
Sometimes we get so focused on landing a job that we overlook the importance of negotiating the job offer...
There are some common mistakes candidates make when they interview for jobs. Here is my list of the things to avoid so that you can get the job of your dreams..
How do you dress for success? How do you dress to impress? Imagine the most important day in your life...
If you are trying to drive traffic to your business or website and you don’t have a big budget or you don’t want to pay for search engine marketing, there are seven main ways you can get traffic to your website...
Everybody has potential to be a great negotiator and there are five things that I’ve found that really help me...
Giving yourself the best chance of getting a job interview is all about personalization...
I think the best way to find the leader in every employee is to put him or her in situations where they have to be the leader. One of the ways I do this is....
The best way to manage attorneys’ fees is to manage the process. A lot of us are intimidated to talk to our lawyer about how we can keep our attorney bills low and where we need to spend time on things versus where we don’t need to spend time on things...
For some businesses, getting venture capital funding can be a good way to get investors to take your company to the next level. Nevertheless, venture capital funding is not for everybody, and there are certain things to take into consideration...
There are 10 questions to consider when you start a new business. I wrote these out a long time ago and I’ve used them as a basis for every business plan I’ve ever written...
The discipline we practice in our company that you should be working on for yourself and in your startup or small business is the following...
Docstoc provides the best quality and widest selection of documents and resources to start, grow and manage a business...
A mission statement has a couple of main values. The first is internally to the people in the business. It is a rallying cry, that everyone should think this is the most important thing. The second value is this is how we would want the world and outside customers to think of us as a company....
The single best way to raise money from professional investors, whether they are angels or venture capitalists, is to have a preexisting relationship - they know you, they trust you and they have seen what you’ve accomplished...how do we do that?
There are handful of things you always want to make sure of to make sure your site is optimized for S.E.O....
There are 4 variables that I encourage every single person in our company to look at when we have this array of choices in front of us. And those are....
What partners are going to make the biggest differences to the most important outcomes in your business?
There are 3 things I look for in every employee that I hire and I’ve given this speech to every employee I’ve hired, they are....
The main value of the 100% money-back guarantee is it gives the consumer a lot of confidence and trust that they’re going to buy that product....
If you want to be effective in sales, there is a 5 step sales process that you have to follow....
Strategy is one of the two most important things in all of your business decisions. The two most important things are strategy and execution. Strategy is the “What are we going to do?” and execution is “How are we going to get it done?”
How do you stay focus on your vision is and have tenacity that makes it successful, but also be flexible enough to make the decisions that will lead your business to be successful? That is the entrepreneur’s dilemma.
When your starting out there’s really only one question that makes a difference and that’s "why?"
A good relationship between you and your business consultant can lead to great things for your company. It is extremely important to have open lines of communication and make sure that your consultant is on the same page with how you want to run your business.
If you follow these ten rules, you will always be more scrappy and get better results than your competition!
Jason Nazar is the co-founder and CEO of Docstoc. He’s a frequent author and speaker on small businesses topics. You can read more of his posts www.Docstoc.com and at his blog, www.Jasonnazar.com.
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