Have you ever been talked into do something you knew was dumb? *raises hand* Back when I was scaling my company Spheric Technologies, a friend introduced me to his buddy who did outsourced sales. Essentially, a quick fix “easy button” for business owners who can’t be bothered to take full control ...

How do you build a $100M revenue business in 3 years? That was the question my coaching client Larry asked me with a straight face. Now, before you dismiss his question, you need to know that he just exited his previous startup a few months earlier. So I knew he had the chops. What a great question ...

I can still remember the moment I became a millionaire. It took 10 years of failing, getting back up, testing, iterating till finally at 27 years old it happened. I can still remember the specific moment when I found out. I was cruising in my broke down, decade old Jetta when my accountant Marc ...

What if you could get on a stage in front of an audience filled with your perfect customers and tell them about your software? That’s what webinars are like. In 2010 my buddy Lewis Howes stopped by our office in San Francisco preaching them as a sales tool, and that’s when I first got introduced to ...

Have you ever cold emailed the CEO of a public company? When I was 18 I sent out 20. I knew I needed advice to build my company, and figured they might have the answer… … so I found the list of top tech CEO’s at the time, and sent them an email with a simple question: Everyone argues that it’s who ...

Can you build a thriving software business without writing code? Can you generate real revenues without having anything built? The answer is yes, and I personally believe that it’s the only way to do it. A couple weeks ago I was in San Francisco hosting my Sales Pipeline Intensive event for my SaaS ...

It’s 2011 and I’m pacing back and forth in a parking lot in LA. I’m about to go on This Week in Startups to talk about Flowtown which had just been acquired, but I’m stressing out… I’m on the phone with Sean Ellis – the creator of the Customer Development survey – walking through the customer ...

Wow, did I ever butcher this joke. “The CEO, CFO, and Marketing Manager walk into the bar…” You can watch the video below to see how I killed my stand-up career before it even started… …but here’s what I was trying to convey. Depending on WHO you are, you probably have a different need for the same ...

How does Richard Branson manage 400+ companies? He doesn’t. Over the years he’s learned how to build teams and split ownership in a way that drives everything forward. In 2004, after 2 failed companies, I finally learnt this lesson. When I started my company Spheric Technologies I started it with ...

When I first built Clarity.fm, it wasn’t a marketplace. It was a call list app. The concept was that I could add anyone to my list, with phone number and description, then it would robo call each person, reading to me the name of the person and reason for the call. In short… I was building a ...

Are you down with SOP’s? Some call em’ Standard Operating Procedures, I call them Playbooks. If you’re tired of putting out fires in your business, then you’ll need them to keep your sanity. Recently I had the privilege of having dinner w/ the Godfather of system design for entrepreneurs, Michael ...