On founders – Zuckerberg’s shade and the Specter of Gates There’s no ideal founding personality type that works all startups all the time. Being younger isn’t necessarily the advantage in the world of startups. The average age of a founder in the United States is forty-two. Having co founders can Read more…
Owner’s salary: why your salary and distributions are fogging your view of net income Know what your market-based wage is for your role. If the business cannot afford to pay you, keep track of the wages you’re giving up. If you’re profitable and you pay yourself wages that are too Read more…
Award-winning journalist and NPR host Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200 highly successful entrepreneurs to uncover amazing true stories like these. In How I Built This, he shares tips for every entrepreneur’s journey: from the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, Read more…
Kindle | Hardcover | Audiobook In the Passion Economy, Adam Davidson (the co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money) shares eight ground rules for everyone who wants to thrive in the twenty-first-century economy. Armed with these new rules, you can learn to identify opportunities hidden in plain sight while getting to do Read more…
Kindle | Hardcover | Audiobook Question everything. The most successful entrepreneurs look at how businesses operate, study internal processes, team dynamics, relationships and the mistakes people make. They’re never satisfied with the way things are, just because they’ve always been that way. It’s the same for you. Your entrepreneurial journey Read more…
Being oversubscribed is the way for you to do your best work and spend more time with your existing customers than endlessly chasing new ones. It gives you more downtime to innovate your products rather than running around selling them. Oversubscribed allows you to build your brand rather than blending Read more…
Kindle | Hardcover | Audiobook Bezonomics unveils the underlying principles Jeff Bezos uses at Amazon to achieve his dominance—customer obsession, extreme innovation, and long-term management, all supported by artificial intelligence. Most important, Bezonomics answers the fundamental question: How are Amazon and its imitators affecting the way we live, and what can we Read more…
Kindle | Hardcover | Audiobook Aside from the traditional way of starting a business and the so-called startup world, there’s a third way to grow your money tree. It’s less risky, requires little to no capital investment and better still, the Third Way is open to anyone. Whether you call Read more…
In the founder phase, an entrepreneur takes his vision and turns it into a company vision. Almost every task from backstage administration to onstage performance falls on his shoulders as a founder. It’s until the entrepreneur becomes a farmer that he starts building systems, policies and developing people. He reaches Read more…
Business is a choice we make and one choice isn’t better than any other. All are simply choices guided by our own subjective internal factors. The company of one present one choice. It may not be the choice you want to run your life and your business, but if it Read more…