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In my last post I asked for $1 from you to help me start a new business. This is one of the most uncomfortable things I have ever done. In this post I’d like to explain to you why I was doing it, how much money I raised, and what lessons I learned from this [...]

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This post is NOT a joke. I’m serious. I am starting a business and need $1 from you. Why am I doing this? Because I signed up for AppSumo’s Make Your First Dollar program. The first task is to raise $1 – I cannot continue the program until I raise at least $1. Why would [...]

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Too little time, too many great books to catch up. Below is a list of books on my bookshelf – I won’t finish all of them during this long holiday weekend but I’m working on them! Mastery by Robert Greene. The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of [...]

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Instead of listening to sports radio or NPR during my morning commute, I have started to listen to Mixergy interviews. I have a become a big fan of Mixergy.com. It’s an site with hundreds of interviews with successful entrepreneurs. What makes Mixergy unique is its founder and interviewer, Andrew Warner. He is an extremely talented [...]

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I know plenty of people out there who are dreading going to work every morning. Annoying colleagues and corporate politics made them miserable. Let me share with you a quote: “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to [...]

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One thing I learned in management is if you measure something, you see results. I have defined a set of metrics to run our team and our business. Every Tuesday we have a weekly metric meetings to review results. The weekly metric meeting is our single most important tool to run our business. You might [...]

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If you know someone who works in Yahoo!, please forward this article to him or her. Earlier this morning Yahoo announced that it would slash 2,000 jobs and that it would begin the process of notifying employees immediately. Here are 7 tips to survive Yahoo layoff: Immediately fill out the required government forms so that [...]

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If you feel stuck in your career, you should read The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. This book is not perfect. In fact a large portion of the book is pure propaganda for Linked since one of the authors founded LinkedIn. However, there are a couple [...]

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Jim Collins is one of my favorite management authors. In this New York Times article, Mr. Collins talked about how he kept a running tally of how he’s spending his time. “That, he explains, is a running tally of how he’s spending his time, and whether he’s sticking to a big goal he set for [...]

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Thirteen months ago I took a very challenging job. I was tasked to turn around a struggling $70-million-a-year commodity business. There was a lot of skepticism about the prospect of this business. After spending several weeks of reviewing the business metrics, we determined a very focused strategy. More importantly, we focused on building small wins. [...]

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