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Set up a shell company and start testing the market. Launch later when the timing is right!

PSA: I made a list of the best accounts on Twitter to follow. See it here. ​ We're going deep in the weeds in this email - if you take the time to study this stuff, I guarantee you'll learn something! Many of the wealthiest people in our country earn millions of dollars per year and pay almost nothing in taxes.[...]

Show notes from Episode #169 of the . Nick is shameless about his love for lawn care. In Nick’s brother came on the show to talk about his lawn care company, and you can learn all about his first year of business which netted him $100k in revenue and $70k profit, all without a single dollar spent on marketing.[...]

Ego is good early on. The confidence. The drive for status and image. It gets us far. It gives us the courage to disregard the anxiety and fear of failure. The that tells us to run for cover when things get scary. We all agree that you don't need to be a superhuman or brilliant person to build a successful[...]

In this podcast for real estate investors Nick talks about one of the best real estate investing strategies--how to raise money with LPs.

Nick recently had a Q&A session on real estate, investments, and sweaty startups. Listen to a few of the questions here!

This is an analytical approach to identifying and exploring new business opportunities. This is designed around service-based businesses but the concepts can be applied to any business. In order to compete you need to have a competitive advantage in one of three areas: speed, price or quality. The goal here is to[...]

Nick discusses raising good kids and how hard it can be when striving to earn generational wealth, how to protect the downside in real estate, and how to think about advice you get through the lens of the person giving you the advice   Follow my...

The Sweaty Startup is celebrating its 200th episode, and we want to celebrate that with YOU! Enter our giveaway for a chance to win a free 1 hour consulting call with Nick. Visit to enter!

Before we jump in: Ranking your business at the top of Google can be all the difference between the phone ringing with new customers and struggling to grow. My team at Bold SEO has cracked the code for local service businesses. If you run a local company, let me know by replying to this email and I can make an[...]

Ben calls in to discuss his current situation and how he should approach entrepreneurship.

We all know that feeling of failure. That feeling of inadequacy. The feeling of rejection. The feeling of embarrassment. The anxiety that comes along with entrepreneurship and generally anything that is worth doing in life. Mine was a basketball game in southern Indiana. Basketball is intense in southern indiana.[...]

Change spells opportunity.

In today’s episode of the Sweaty Startup, Nick talks about innovative and creative entrepreneurship. Those words get thrown around so much these days, but Nick talks about how those types of entrepreneurs aren’t the ones getting paid.