You have to show up every day. The endless days where nothing works have their own arithmetic that adds up to breakthroughs of genius. The sun will come. Everybody works for free at first. Free doesn’t really mean “free” though. Free means that you’re an investor. If you’re the entrepreneur, [...] Read more »
Specifically Which Customers Do I Fire?
Entrepreneurs, here is an important distinction in your customers that I learned at the Wizard Academy a few weeks back. As you sell your product or service, you will deal with two meta-customers in your business. One is ideal. The other is a time-suck. Respectively, they are called Relational and Transactional. [...] Read more »
Two Jobs in a Down Economy
One of the more challenging things about graduating college in 2009 was finding a job in a down economy. Our economy’s outlook was so severe that even George Martin, St. Edward’s University President, spent most of his graduation address on some hard facts about the reality we faced once we [...] Read more »