Category: Personal information & knowledge management

October 4, 2018

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was 19 and a broke college student at the University of Washington — so broke I had to drop out. I got a job, but still couldn’t pay my rent and […]

September 7, 2018

Red Rocket recently acquired Restaurant Furniture Plus, a B2B ecommerce website selling furniture to restaurants. What made this business different from most of the other businesses I have managed was the fact it was 100 percent a virtual company. The […]

August 17, 2018

You’ve heard that business is global now, right? But surely there are limits…you can have remote workers for a while, for example, but how in the world would it work logistically if members of your C-suite were in different cities, […]

July 25, 2018

Many people aspire to be the boss so that they can control their own schedule and take off as much time as they want. However, the stark reality is that many owners don’t take vacations at all, year after year. […]

July 16, 2018

If you’re a Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, you pretty much can sneeze and your bank will shell out millions from your account to fund whatever venture you think of. What about the rest of us? How can […]

July 2, 2018

I built my first business to multiple six-figures fairly quickly in 1999. It was a service business that filled a major need for a select industry. It’s a business that many entrepreneurs can still start and build successful today. I […]

May 25, 2018

Seth Godin and I have never met, but we seem to agree on one thing: Freelancers are not the same as entrepreneurs, just as much as entrepreneurs are not the same as small business owners. I just spoke at the […]

April 26, 2018

See Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr as an exception to the rule. He won five NBA championships as a player and two as a coach. See Larry Bird, the only person in the history of the NBA to be […]

March 5, 2018

Rianka Dorsainvil wants to talk about the “B” word: Budget. The 30-year-old entrepreneur and Certified Financial Planner (CFP) is on a mission to make financial planning accessible to Millennials. Her fee-for-service only company, Your Greatest Contribution (YGC), offers to help […]

February 9, 2018

Every company deals with bad customers. People complain because they want something for free, because they had a bad day, or because they just feel like it. However, not all complaints are created equal, and not all customers who complain […]