The other week I had the privilege of having Greg Crabtree, the author of Simple Numbers, over to my house for dinner. What I love about Greg is how he simplifies everything down to its core essence… … or a farm analogy 🙂 I absolutely love the way he teaches and tells stories. He’s from Huntsville, Alabama and grew up
How do you increase your product lock-in? How do you increase your prices without upsetting your customers? The other day I was reading a great blog post by Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder of Hubspot on going from Startup to Scale-Up. One area that I loved was his thoughts on the “Monetization Decision”
GoDaddy is the ultimate revenue optimization service. Have you bought a domain from them lately? How hard is it to buy a $14.99 domain?
Last week I had a call with Jamie. Jamie was excited about his startup idea. He even went as far as building a fully functioning product. It had a great marketing site and a decent looking pricing page. Now, when I looked at the pricing I knew something was off.
Startups typically don’t die from starvation (lack of opportunity), they usually die from indigestion (taking on too many things at once). Have you ever felt overwhelmed, and worse, realized it was totally SELF IMPOSED? Come on, be honest. I know you have, because I’ve done it MANY times in the past…
Do you know the story of Plenty of Fish (POF)? Maybe you’re a member? What I love most about the story is the way its founder, Marcus Frind built it. He didn’t raise a bunch of money. He didn’t dump all his life savings into the startup. He didn’t even quit his job and jump in full time.
Are you struggling to achieve work/life balance? So was I… … actually, I sucked at it. I was that guy that would show up to parties and family functions strapped to his laptop – don’t judge :).
If you want to build a massively successful startup, then you NEED to have a strong team pulling the rope behind you. Consider that a non-negotiable truth of the startup game. And it doesn’t matter how amazing, talented and driven you think you are.
When I was building Spheric Technologies, we had a certain strategic partner that played a vital role in our company’s 150% year over year growth. Massive impact. Great synergy between our core customers and their own. Yet ultimately… We had to cut ties. And here’s why…
Do you consider yourself to be more of a “marketing mind” than an engineer? If so, what if I told you there was a very *specific* type of partner that can take your big disruptive ideas and turn them into game changing realities? Exciting right? Doubly so if you’re allergic to code. Cue the technical co-founder.
