In last weeks video I shared a story of a friend who had a hard time raising his round of funding… that prompted a bunch of replies and questions on my framework. Exclusive Training: Download an in-depth training webinar that goes over my complete step-by-step fundraising process. So this week I shot a quick video on the 5 strategies to help you raise
A few weeks ago I invited an entrepreneur over to my house to talk about his fundraising process. He was trying to raise a ~6M dollar series A financing. Before he kicked it off I shared with him my Fundraising Like a Pro framework so that he would understand the steps required to make the process as painless as possible…
When I started my first company (MaritimeVacation.ca) at 17 I had no clue what I was suppose to be doing. I didn’t know if I should be coding or selling? As the “CEO” what should I be focusing my time on? In lieu of knowing the answer, I just built stuff. It’s definitely the reason that company (and the next
Note: This message is for the “wantrapreneurs” in your life. Feel free to share it with them. Alright, here comes some tough love. Most of you are not acting like founders. You’re not focusing on actually building a business. Maybe you fell in love with the idea of starting a company (being a founder)… and once you started you decided it
You either live a proactive life (where you decided what you want out of it), or reactive (where you react to the world around you). Unhappy people live reactively. They believe their life happens to them and they have no power to change that. Successful entrepreneurs are highly proactive. They create the world they want to live in.
So here’s the deal. (See what I did there?) At some point, if you start a company – you’re going to think about selling it… … or maybe you don’t plan on selling it, but one day someone may show up and offer to buy it – that’s what happened to me. Regardless, I want to help you make that
Why is it so hard to shut something down once we’ve started it? It’s because of an economics issue called, “Sunk Cost” We all have a tendency to continue down a path even though everything in our gut tells us to stop. So let me give you a few questions to ask yourself to help you decide when enough is
Today I want to share with you something that’s near and dear to my heart… the idea of getting unstuck. Recently I was sitting down with a friend of mine and I was asking him what his plans were for the rest of the year – since we were already half way through the year – and he told me
So I’m sitting in the waiting room for 45 minutes and I can’t believe I’m still here. I’m the kind of guy who hasn’t touched a piece of physical mail in 7 years because I find it super inefficient. (Shoutout to Lisa who helps me with my mail… she’s A-W-E-S-O-M-E!) But then I realize – I’m not here just for the haircut.
If it’s cool with you … I want to share some business lessons that I learned driving 85 miles per hour, in $130,000 machines, across the Mexican desert. You’re probably thinking, “What could you possible learn doing that?” First, let me share with you one of my philosophies …
