Am I the only one whose Apple Watch is always dead? I can’t seem to remember to charge it up… … anyway, I digress. When I started Clarity I put in the time to build one of the best advisory boards for the business. It cost me time and $$$ but in the end, the ROI was 100X. Having the
Do you think Google was the first search engine? AirBnb.com the first online vacation rental site? Dropbox the first online file storage company? No. No. No. Why does this matter? Because it’s the most common excuse wantrapreneurs like to give for staying on the sidelines. “Someone’s already doing this… it already exists.” is their reason. Bull-oney. It’s nothing but
I used to believe that ANYONE could be an entrepreneur. Until the day my friend Julie went bankrupt. When she started her business, I was pumped… probably more so than I should’ve been. She left our meeting excited to take on the challenges and get going. The reason she failed is because she didn’t understand her role in relation to
How much value did you create today? What about yesterday? Want to know the best way to score yourself? You need to learn the Entrepreneurial Scorecard (all credit goes to Todd Herman, creator of the 90 Day Year). This framework is the only one I’ve found that allows founders to self evaluate their daily activities and accurately measure how those
Even though he almost fired me after 2 weeks… … my leadership style came from a guy named Darcy. I was 21 years old, and just got a contract position with a company in Fort McMurray, Alberta working on the tech team at Syncrude. Somehow I was hired even though the people reporting to me were 10 years older. Darcy
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! (and I’m wearing my party shirt today!) It’s also the 100th episode of my YouTube business channel?! Crazy, right?… … both fell on the same day! You think it’s a sign? You betcha! So, today is a special video 🙂 Over the past 100 weeks I’ve published a video every Monday with insights and strategies to live
Scared of growing your business? Totally cool with business as usual? Don’t want to get “too rich?”… … well let me tell you a couple of stories. One day I was talking to my buddy Matt and he was like, “Hey man, I love all the stuff you’re sharing, but is it okay if I just keep my business the
Do you want to improve the quality of your life? I know that’s a big question … but hear me out. Last week I shared a killer strategy for overcoming MAJOR challenges in your business. Today I want to dig deeper and share some important areas that I think could serve you even further. A few weeks ago I had
Imagine this… Our startup Flowtown was exploding, we’ve got thousands of customers, we’re growing at 30%+ month over month and we decide to raise our next round of funding. We start meeting with VC’s doing the Sand Hill Road shuffle, and they’re going great. Then one day as we sit in the parking lot of one of Silicon Valley’s biggest
Over the years I’ve had some pinch-me-is-this-really-happening kinds of moments. From spending a week with Richard Branson, to having Mitch Kapor (inventor of Lotus Notes / spreadsheet) invest in my company, Flowtown. One of those moments happened in 2009 when somehow we got introduced to Gail, the CEO of ConstantContact – the FIRST publicly traded SaaS (Software as a Service)
