Your hypothesis (that there is a hole in the market for you) is still an educated guess until you get out and sell it and prove it. Don't invest heavily until you know the demand is there and you have the customers to prove it. You can (and you should) build out your 100 different ways but at the end of the day[...]

Show notes from . I rarely dive into my my own business here but I have a story and a lesson worth sharing. I’m always learning and failing and getting back up and pressing onward. I got some bad news this week. A self storage development project that I had been working on for 24 months is dead. Let’s start from[...]

Show notes from podcast episode 28 First of all there are a lot of different types of partnerships. In this article we discuss the co-founder. Someone who you bring on initially and they get ownership no matter what. No vesting schedule. No cliff. No way out if things go wrong. This article is the cautious[...]

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[...]

I've taken the time to speak with a ton of high level employees about their jobs. What they like, what they don't like, and more importantly WHY THEY QUIT. Lets dive in: Last week's podcast episode on how to fire an employee was one of the most popular episodes I've released. Check it out on Youtube or Spotify .[...]

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[...]

There is a proven playbook to grow companies. What tools to use, agencies to hire, strategies to employ. I've launched 9 companies in my life - two of which are fairly large with 40 + employees and hundreds of thousands in monthly revenue. People ask me all the time for vendor recommendations. Who builds my[...]

Before we jump in: Over the last 12 months I’ve used AdRhino to run my pay-per-click Google ads at several of my companies. At one of our businesses AdRhino helped us reduce our cost-per-click by 44% while reducing our cost per lead by 56%. Our year-over-year ad performance is VERY GOOD. If you run a business[...]