Isn’t it annoying that as soon as you finish something, people always want to know “Whats next? You could’ve just finished climbing a mountain, running your first marathon, or selling your company… and the only thing they want to know is… what’s next?!! After Clarity got acquired (Dec ’14, but only announced in Feb ’15) I was bombarded with this question everyday. For
“How do you build a product company within a service company?” …is a question that a lot of people struggle with. There are amazing examples of companies who have started off as a consulting or service company who have gone on to launch great products. Companies like:
If you haven’t heard of remarketing then you’re wasting your marketing dollars. The concept is simple, when someone visits your website or blog, you “tag them” using a simple code snippet (provided by Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, etc), then you’re able to target that person with ads from your company as they navigate around the internet or on that social
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 the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” ~ Peter Drucker If you have 100 customers, there are probably only 10 who are actually amazing
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 a different path. Since then, I’ve organized over 300 meals, bringing together close to 1000 entrepreneurs and CEO’s, both at home and everywhere that I’ve traveled. The power of bringing
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?”, then you have competition. You don’t decide who your competition is, your customers do by their actions and choices.
There are an estimated 49,256 people that move to San Francisco each year. I made that move in September 2008. To say that it was an easy transition would be a freakin’ lie. After 3 weeks I hit a wall and almost returned home.
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ~ Maya Angelou I’m always getting asked, “How do I discover my passion, my gift and my purpose in life?”
Imagine that you met someone at a conference and instead of thinking that you were just going to know them for the next 15 minutes, you actually reframed that and asked yourself, “What if I would know this person for the next 50 years?” It’s a really interesting question and something that I decided to shift in my thinking about
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 I felt like there needed to be an “AA type meeting” for providing support to those founders :). I don’t know if you know what a marketplace is, but it’s
