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10,000 American's retire every day. Many of them are service based entrepreneurs with no plans to pass along their business to the next family member or friend. Its a buyers market and businesses are cheap. You can often buy them with no money down and pay for them over time. Nick talks about how he sources[...]

First of all my children have relatively zero chance of getting accepted into the Ivy League. They won't have all of the extracurricular activities required to get accepted. They won't volunteer 20 hours a week. They won't have incredible test scores. They won't have a sob story to tell in their application[...]

Before we jump in: 2 years ago I invested in AdRhino , a paid ads agency for SMBs. They've helped over 100 brands scale paid ads and have managed over $3 million in media spend so far. They are doing something unheard of: They're offering to do 1 full month of FREE ADS MANAGEMENT for the first 5 people who[...]

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...

In this episode, I sat down with Simon Turner to unpack what real entrepreneurship actually looks like, beyond the social media fluff and one of the best ways to buy your time back.  We talked about buying boring businesses, earning leverage...

Paul Jarvis is a personal hero of mine. He joins us on the show to discuss his book "Company of One" and why he believes that staying small could be the right decision for many entrepreneurs.

In this email, we’re going to unpack one of the most important metrics you’ll find in real estate: NOI . NOI stands for NET OPERATING INCOME — and you’ll use this measure throughout your career, so you better get familiar with it. The last week about my trip to Raleigh to get together with a group of[...]

We have a caller from Kansas City who is looking into purchasing a business. We talk about some of the questions to ask and what to look for!

Just my 2c on this recent popular post . Stop what you're doing and look at your business through an unemotional lens. Did you start the business because its what you want to be doing or did you start it because there is a gap in the market and room for you to compete ? The market doesn't care about your dreams[...]

NOW LETS DIVE IN: What successful people understood before they were successful: Mentorship isn’t about finding a great mentor . It’s about becoming a person great mentors WANT to help. Hiring isn’t about finding good people . It’s about becoming a person good people want to work for and building a business that[...]

A quick ad before we jump in: -- I launched a business brokerage with my father. We now have 600+ buyers on our distribution list. When we get a listing we'll do a podcast episode with the owner, a breakdown of the business to my 80,000 newsletter subscribers, and several tweets promoting the listing. Wanna sell[...]

Show notes from Episode #155 of the . Nick has spent the past two weeks talking to as many smart people as would take his call; business owners, entrepreneurs, private equity managers, real estate owners, logical thinkers and truth-seekers alike, he asked them what they’re afraid of and what they think the future[...]

Show notes from episode . "Don't fall in love with the medium - fall in love with the mission." - Seth Godin on a recent episode of Akimbo (recommended listening). Our mission as business owners is to reach customers and exploit profitable marketing channels. The mediums and the ways to do that are always[...]

Real estate is the end goal. In this episode we talk about how to approach it.

Its hard to stay positive even when things are going overwhelmingly well.