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The Transitional Business Model

One of the key differences that I see over and over between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs is the willingness to use a transitional business model initially as a means of establishing a beachhead in the target industry. Another way of saying this is tha Read More

The Serial Entrepreneur vs. the Dealmaker

Today I will compare the strategies of the serial entrepreneur and the dealmaker. Both are worth studying because they have much to teach us about wealth creation. However, before we do that we will look at some important business concepts.

The Indust Read More

A partner at leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Partners told startups to STFU over the weekend. He's worth listening to: Leone claims that Sequoia has never lost money on a fund, and has returned between $15 and $20 billion to its limited partners on an estimated total investment o Read More

World's greatest marketing guru Jay Abraham has asked me to offer you his new free 67 page ebook of paradigm-shifting, thought-provoking, possibility-stretching, achievement fortifying stories, examples, case studies and explanations.

It’s all yours-gratis. My gift to you. My investment, contrib Read More

Small Business Growth Strategies

For better or worse, the world has entered into a period of economic turbulence caused in part by hyper-competition on a global scale, volatile energy costs, financial uncertainty, and waves of new disruptive technologies. This will most likely be a prolonged per Read More

Former senior vice president William J. Harrington files a blockbuster tell-all with the SEC.

A former senior analyst at Moody's has gone public with his story of how one of the country's most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core.

The analyst, William J. Harr Read More

Billionaires Have Quick Reaction Times to Both Opportunity and Crisis.

Here’s a great story about the importance of quick reaction time to crisis. Future billionaire Phillip Anschutz was contract drilling for Chevron in 1968, when a spark from a truck suddenly set his entire field ablaze. Read More

How revenue-based funding can work for startups

The VC model really only works for the “home-runs” so this approach makes sense for great businesses that make money but aren’t swinging for the fences. “We think businesses that make $1-5m/ year in revenue are great businesses and our long term vi Read More

Crowd funding should use the late great James Ling as its poster boy.

Let me tell you about this great but little known American entrepreneur. His name comes to mind whenever someone mentions crowd funding.

I first discovered James Ling (1922 – 2004) at about the age of ten when I came across Read More

Frank Kern, king of online marketing, spills the beans on how he succeeded after numerous failures. He talks about what went wrong with his first few forays into online marketing before switching to the rules for success. Read More