A local friend wrote up his story for me. There are lessons here for all of us. _________________ I sold the building last week, closing the door to a tumultuous chapter in my life. I began as a restaurateur in 2013 and decided to call it quits nine months later. The...
Robert told me of a wonderful lesson he learned about overcoming the “I can’t do it” mentality. When he was in his early 20’s, Robert had a terrible fear of heights. While working out in a local gym, he befriended some guys who worked at construction company that...
Next month at the OPEN Expo will be hosting our second Lions’ Den. (The Lion’s Den is the OPEN Network’s version of Dragons’ Den or Shark Tank. If you missed the first one, $135,000 was invested in 5 businesses). At the OPEN Expo in North Carolina,...
In Michael Gerber’s book, The Power Point, he states that there are five essential skills every entrepreneur must have in order to create a great business. Whether we are working in Tampa or Timbuktu, every entrepreneur does these things to some extent in their...
The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is that sales is more important than marketing. Sales and marketing are two ends of a stick. At the sales end your outreach is narrow and deep. At the marketing end it is wide and shallow. New...
Dan Cobley gives a TED talk titled, “What physics taught me about marketing.” It’s not one of my Top 10 TED talks but in this talk he makes one point that I wish to put into my own words. Dan reminds us of Newton’s Law: F= m x A, or “Force equals mass times...
