Jared Hecht

Jared Hecht is the co-founder and CEO of Fundera, an online marketplace for small business financial solutions. Prior to Fundera, Hecht co-founded group messaging app, GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings and TransferWise. Jared Hecht is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine.

Executive Insider

Why You Should Consider Building Your Team in an ‘Untapped’ City

Executive InsiderJared Hecht

For a long time, in order to take advantage of a vibrant tech ecosystem (not to mention attract investment), you needed to base your operations somewhere near a city with a “Silicon” nickname. There was Silicon Valley, of course. There’s also Silicon Alley (New York), Silicon Beach (Los Angeles), Silicon...

CEO Agenda

Remote-First Vs. Remote-Friendly: Which Is Best For Businesses?

CEO AgendaJared Hecht

By now, business owners and entry-level employees alike have heard the hype about remote work. Getting your work done somewhere that isn’t the office (home, a local coffee shop, a co-working space) is on the rise, and benefits like increased satisfaction and improved attrition rates abound. Not every business that...

CEO Agenda

6 Reasons To Offer Meditation in the Workplace

CEO AgendaJared Hecht

Most employers are consistently looking for ways to create a happy workplace and boost employee engagement without completely maxing out their HR budget. Unfortunately, many fringe benefits cost businesses an arm and a leg to offer. Luckily, meditation as a workplace benefit offers countless advantages—one of which is its low...

CEO Advisory

4 Reasons Why Employee Offboarding Is So Important

CEO AdvisoryJared Hecht

When you’re running a successful company, you get used to interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new faces. Your business is growing, and that means you need to welcome aboard new talent who can bring added dimensions to the company. You also need to get used to people leaving. Valued employees deciding...

CEO Advisory

Why Building Your Business Credit Score Makes Your Company More Valuable

CEO AdvisoryJared Hecht

Business owners have a lot of numbers, metrics, and ratios to worry about. One that tends to get overlooked is business credit score—a number that represents how creditworthy your business is to lenders. A business credit score doesn’t factor into many financial equations. On the surface, having a high (or...

CEO Advisory

No-Fee Business Credit Cards: Are They Right For You?

CEO AdvisoryJared Hecht

For business owners, there are few financial tools as useful as a good business credit card. Business credit cards have some advantages over personal credit cards when it comes to covering work-related expenses. One way that business and personal cards are similar, however, is that you’ll need to decide whether...

CEO Insider

7 Reasons Your Business Should Go Green

CEO InsiderJared Hecht

For years now, “going green” has been a trendy buzzword for businesses of all sizes. Now that climate change is making a real impact on the way we live, however, it’s become more pressing than ever for everyone—individuals and businesses alike—to take decisive action to limit our impact on the...

CEO Insider

6 Steps to Pivot Your Business In A New Direction

CEO InsiderJared Hecht

For small businesses struggling to gain traction in the marketplace, there are two common options: continuing to forge ahead or quitting altogether. But there is a third option: pivoting your business to embrace a new strategy for success. “To pivot” entered the business vernacular thanks to Eric Ries, an entrepreneur...

Education and Career

The 7 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Education and CareerJared Hecht

If you’re looking for advice as an entrepreneur, you don’t often have to look for long. There are endless websites, seminars, conferences, podcasts, and books out there that promise to make you a more successful small business owner. The real challenge isn’t finding advice, it’s parsing out the good from...

Jared Hecht

Why You Should Consider Building Your Team in an ‘Untapped’ City

Remote-First Vs. Remote-Friendly: Which Is Best For Businesses?

6 Reasons To Offer Meditation in the Workplace

4 Reasons Why Employee Offboarding Is So Important

Why Building Your Business Credit Score Makes Your Company More Valuable

No-Fee Business Credit Cards: Are They Right For You?

7 Reasons Your Business Should Go Green

6 Steps to Pivot Your Business In A New Direction

The 7 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

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