This is all from the book Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less . If you are interested in buying, growing, and selling small companies, check out my course & community on it at IndiePE.com. 78 ways to double your profits in six months or less: Every cost is up … | Continue reading
"Losers exist. Don’t hire them." It may not be politically correct. But it is effective. How to avoid hiring losers: Hire for attitude over aptitude. Skills can be learned. Attitude is hard to change. So how do we weed out losers? Ask basic questions beyond work. … | Continue reading
Everything you could ever want to know about Joe Liemandt and ESW Capital. | Continue reading
Everything you ever wanted to know about how Tiny Capital and a holding company for internet businesses operators. | Continue reading
You can engage a fancy design agency and pay tens of thousands of dollars (or more!) for a nice logo or you can follow what I do. The results are similar. With a design agency, you are really paying for their creativity. The technical skills of making a logo are cheap with … | Continue reading
Shownotes for each episode Share with guests to send around Builds websites’s SEO Gives listeners’s a reason to go to website so you can grab their email Include links to show on Apple, Spotify, etc. and direct play links (a weird number of people listen in browser). … | Continue reading
Starting a podcast is the best way to establish yourself in a new industry. Here are the steps to do it… Get Guests Come up with a list of dream guests/customers to interview. Cold email lower level ones. They’ll be flattered. Ask initial guests for referrals to fu … | Continue reading
I have never liked sitting still to read long articles or books. Humans evolved to think best when moving around. We were never meant to sit at desks all day. Unfortunately, most of the best content is still text-based. Audio learning is progressing with aud … | Continue reading
VCs are comfortable with risk. We get paid for the risks we take. We know the risks are there and just try to understand the potential pitfalls going in. With venture capital the real question is not what are the risks, but how big could this be if it actually works. As … | Continue reading
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”— Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) As a somewhat public figure in Chicago tech, I get students reaching out for startup internships/jobs all the time. It used to only be students from my underg … | Continue reading
AirPods (100M sold) and Alexas (200M sold) are flying off the shelves and they are changing the way we consume audio. Before reliable wireless earbuds and ubiquitous smart speakers, consuming any kind of short-form audio wasn’t worth the t | Continue reading
This is an excerpt from a Tech In Chicago podcast episode. To listen to the whole episode and catch up with all Tech In Chicago episodes, click here . This transcript has been lightly condensed and edited. Colin Keeley : What advice would you give to someone tryi … | Continue reading
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I just turned off the Bevy site and I thought this would be a good time to reflect on what worked and what didn’t. Too many people try to hide their startup failures. I wish more founders would write down their learnings for others to enjoy. Hopefully, some future f … | Continue reading