Business

A while back my buddy Chris Forbes and I were talking about some “successful” people, those in particular fields who everyone looks up to as “having made it,” and he gave me a great quote to balance our conversation (he doesn’t claim ownership, by the way): “Most people were born on second, but think they…

Businesses are always trying to find the upsell … They, we, me realize that when a customer makes a purchase … a first purchase, or any purchase, that’s a HUGE event in the life of any business. One customer. We believe this because to, first, find a customer … to get them to “know, like,…

Seth’s post on Building an Albatross is so true, although I really hate to admit it. This quote hits it perfectly: “It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.” Business success does just take time. I came into it thinking it’d be a lot faster than it has gone, although we’ve done…

So today, I saw an ad on ESPN for Fathead, a wall-sized vinyl graphics of your favorite sports team (plus a whole lot more), and decided to check it out. Here’s something fascinating to me … they took a boring manufactured product — vinyl graphics — and brought it into millions of fans living rooms…

I’m convinced of that … Here’s why I think most great business ideas never get launched: Money – This is probably the most obvious. But I was fortunate enough to have startup financing and then used it frugally and wisely to grow my business, without getting over my head in debt. I’ve heard estimates about…