Wine sommeliers often can't tell the difference between a $20 bottle and a $2,000 bottle in a double blind test. The food at the $20/person restaurant and the food at the $200/person restaurant. The beer at the top rated brewery or the guy brewing in his basement. In a double blind test - who has the better[...]

The hardest thing about entrepreneurship, real estate, or anything else worth doing: You have to be able to look at incomplete information... Or a complicated problem without a clear-cut solution... And make a good decision on which way to proceed. There is nobody who can take you by the hand and lead you through[...]

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Two quick things: 1) I'm hosting a free CEO Bootcamp on April 16th. ​ RSVP here. If you sign up, I'll send you the recording. 2) I recorded a podcast episode where I answered the following questions: My 10 year goals The perfect startup for an inexperienced entrepreneur Best place to build an audience and how[...]

5 years is plenty of time to design the life you wan't. You don't need to work 45 years just to retire to then finally get to design your schedule and do what you want to do. Five years from now, if you have the best 5 years of your life from today forward, what does your day look like? If you had the opportunity[...]

I recorded this video recently. I tell a story of my anxiety attack on the side of the road in Boston in 2013. It's very applicable to what I'm about to tell you in the rest of this write-up. -- I've hired 30 employees outside of the USA with the help of Shepherd and it has been an absolute game changer for my[...]

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