I LOVE competition. It fires me up. A few years ago while I was building Clarity.fm, Google suddenly announced that they were launching a competing product. (read till the end to see what happened) I can’t tell you how many friends messaged me with the link sharing their condolences… … as if it was game over??? RIP Clarity.fm Umm.. not
Reading time: 10 minutes Hours it will save you in 2017: 1,000+ Return-on-reading time: Infinite. Only read if: Your business is doing over $250K in revenue. Must read now if: You’re a busy, growth-minded founder of a quickly-scaling company with too many tabs open on their browser (yes, I can see you on your computer). Download for later if: You’re thinking
A few weeks ago I was asked by an old high-school friend for business advice. He was just starting off and was wondering if he should go to the bank and take out a $10K loan to get started. Fearing a series of bad decisions on his part, I invited him to a Founder’s Dinner so he could meet successful
Do you have a friend who does CrossFit? Is that all they ever talk about? Gets annoying right? One of my best friends, Marty, is that guy. We always joke that at least he’s not a vegan too 🙂 That being said, I owe everything I’m about to share to Marty. About a year ago, after his persistence, I finally
Do you have a friend who keeps failing in business? No matter what they start, it ends up in flames and burns down everything they’ve ever built in the process? It’s a sad reality for many founders. But it’s also one they could’ve fully avoided with the right risk assessment strategies. Cause here’s the problem… Every time they start a
Want to know why building a tech startup is TWICE as hard as opening a restaurant? It’s because both the product AND the market are unknown. They need to be figured out… … for a sushi restaurant, you just need to know if people in your city eat sushi – which most do. So the risk is only in building
I can’t work with you until I work with you. It’s a hiring concept I initially adopted from marketing legend, Seth Godin. A few years back I had the privilege to sit down with Seth to review some of the strategies I was using to vet experts inside of Clarity. And that’s when he shared his ground breaking philosophy on
You probably have tons of startup ideas floating around in your notebook. All begging for your attention – hoping for the day you’ll double down, gather the courage, and bring it into the world. But what stops you ISN’T a lack of courage. It’s a lack of decisiveness – all caused by an overwhelming anxiety that the idea you chose
Here are 3 ways the word “Pivot” is often misused: 1. Used to describe a failure 2. Used to describe a full restart 3. Used to describe a new focus The word pivot requires that you keep one foot planted in the core idea… and then you take the other foot (your product focus) and focus on a new strategy.
Alright, I need to correct something. At the 34 second mark of this video… I lied. I was sharing about the past 10 years in business and I said “I started and scaled 10 companies…” Now, hopefully we both know that isn’t true (or possible). The real number is 3, not 10… but still, 3 startups from scratch, scaled to
