Role-Playing Secrets You Wish You Knew One Year Ago
Role-playing is such a funny idea when you think of it in the context of business – who would of thought “acting out” a situation would make sense in your […]
Unleashing Your Powerdisiac
There’s a great quote that’s going to summarize everything that I’m about to teach you today: “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ~ Aristotle When I […]
3 Strategies For Understanding Your Customer So Well That Your Product Will Sell Itself
There’s a great quote from the brilliant management consultant, Peter Drucker, which really summarizes what I’d like to teach you today: “The aim of marketing is to know and understand […]
Using The Power of Breaking Bread To Build New Business Relationships
About 10 years ago I started organizing Founder Dinners after reading a book called, Never Eat Alone written by an amazing individual, Keith Ferrazzi. This book set my life on […]
3 Strategies For Dealing With Startup Competition
If you’ve started a company (or are growing a business) and every time you share your business idea with other people, they start asking “oh, so you’re like [X] company?”, […]
15 Suggestions for Doing a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley
I originally wrote this in 2010 but wanted to revisit, fix and re-publish for others to read. — If I wasn’t doing my startup in San Francisco, here’s some random […]
The Struggle: What It Means When You Hit a Wall
“Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give… it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” ― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa Most people […]
3 Strategies To Building a Marketplace Startup
Building a two-sided market is probably the hardest thing you can build as an entrepreneur. It’s so hard that a few weeks ago, I organized a Marketplace Founders Dinner because […]
What I Look For When Investing In Startups
Updated Jan 23rd: Please don’t email me your pitch. I’m not looking for new investments outside my personal network. If you’d like you can follow me on Angel List to […]
How To Launch a Company In The Press
Launching your startup is probably one of the most important things to get right so you get as much momentum going in the beginning and have as many people as […]