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
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
Have you ever used Dropbox? What about MailChimp? Freshbooks? If so, there’s a good chance it didn’t cost you anything to use them. Want to know why?
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”
I polluted the environment for my education. Yep, I’ll admit it. Now before you get all green peace on me …. … let me tell you what happened. Here’s the dealio….
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?
MaritimeVacation.ca was my first company. In hindsight it should’ve been a huge success since it was a vacation rental website. Yep, like AirBNB or VRBO. And with the first mover advantage (I started it in 1999) I should’ve been primed for success. But I wasn’t.
Do you hate shady internet marketers as much as I do? Thought so… truth is, most of them are just peddling crap. What’s crazy though, is some of them are KILLING IT online. Why?
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…
