As entrepreneurs, we can get pretty damn obsessive about our growth and learning. Stacking our kindles with the hottest titles from the business bestseller list… … and secretly (or shamefully) looking forward to our next cross-atlantic flight where we’ll finally have a chance to catch up on all ...

I’m not sure about you, but I’ve got about 50+ domains for “projects” that have never gone anywhere. What most people don’t know is when I started working on Clarity, I also has 2 other projects I was pursuing.

You either live a proactive life (where you decided what you want out of it), or reactive (where you react to the world around you). Unhappy people live reactively. They believe their life happens to them and they have no power to change that. Successful entrepreneurs are highly proactive. They ...

Building an audience BEFORE you launch is something that I’ve done for every one of my companies and is a question that I get asked about all of the time. There’s this misconception that people think that if you can launch a product – then you’re automatically going to have success. “If you build ...

“How do you build a product company within a service company?” …is a question that a lot of people struggle with. There are amazing examples of companies who have started off as a consulting or service company who have gone on to launch great products. Companies like:

If you’ve started a company (or are growing a business) and every time you share your business idea with other people, they start asking “oh, so you’re like [X] company?”, then you have competition. You don’t decide who your competition is, your customers do by their actions and choices.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. ~ Will Rogers The other day I was talking with my mom – who owns a delivery service – and she asked, “Dan, you know a bit about business, what can I do to grow?” (You may find this funny, but I’ve never ...

Did you know that the highest paid profession in America is professional speaking? Speakers can earn between $5,000 and $10,000 for a 20 minute keynote presentation. It’s the reason why great entrepreneurs know how to get up and share their message. They indirectly get “paid” by moving employees, ...

As the world evolves to one of “instant gratification,” it seems that doing business has as well. Even though I believe in moving fast and creating value for customers as quickly as possible, I do believe that we should take a long term view on building a business. Long term means that you invest ...

Roy Williams once said, “The risk of insult is the price of Clarity.” I truly believe that. Below are 7 questions that I’ve answered on Clarity using our Answers feature and I thought my responses could provide some Clarity (pun intended) for your startup.

“Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable”~ Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad. That quote cuts like a knife because it’s a simple reminder that we can all be doing more to standout in our businesses. The picture above is of Renee and I in New York after we got custom hats made ...