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Insights After Touring Zappos.com Headquarters
24 May 2010This past week I made it over to Henderson, Nevada and took a tour of Zappos Headquarters. I went with all the folks in the startup I’m working for, just because we thought it would be fun and we liked their approach to business. I also ended up reading the new book by Zappos CEO, [...]
Three Awesome Books I Read Recently
In: Books
1 Mar 2010I read a bunch of books over the last 3-4 months. Many of them were unremarkable, others were pretty good, and three were really outstanding. Here is a quick write up on the three outstanding ones. 1. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) – by Richard Feynman This is an auto-biography [...]
The Best Books For Entrepreneurs
4 Oct 2009Sometimes I post up reviews of books I’ve enjoyed. But I think it’d be interesting to get a collective approach from all the readers of this blog. What books on business have had the greatest impact on you? Which book do you find yourself recommending to other entrepreneurs the most? A bunch of suggestions have [...]
How To Generate Word Of Mouth For Your Business
20 Sep 2009About a week ago I met up with another entrepreneur here in Buenos Aires named Eric Northam (he is running a cool software-as-a-service business down here called EasyBroker.com – check it out if you get a chance). He loaned me a book to read while I was down here, Word Of Mouth Marketing, since I’m [...]
Releasing Breaking Free, the eBook, For Free
11 Sep 2009Breaking Free, the book, came out a few years ago when this blog started. Since then it has done reasonably well (for a first time author) both in print and online. But something happened a while after it came out: I started to wish I’d given the electronic version away for free and only charged [...]
I recently stumbled on the writings of Paul Graham and I have to say I’ve been incredibly impressed. It’s not often that I find myself finding such insight and experience in what I read. Most people out there are hawking versions of the same story, but Paul Graham seems to have a unique perspective on [...]
How To Get Free Books To Give Away
20 Aug 2008Many of you have taken advantage of the 3 free books I give away on this website. Since I’ve started doing it the number of subscribers has gone up consistently. Today I’m going to teach you how to get your own free books that you can give away. This is a great technique to generate [...]
Even Doctors and 15 Year Olds Want To Break Free
In: Books
17 Jun 2008I spent some time digging through my emails tonight and updated the book page with about a dozen emails from people who purchased Breaking Free the book. Some of them are pretty inspiring…and it’s amazing to see the VARIETY of people who all share the same desire to be free from a job (from doctors [...]
I’ve been listening lately to Robert Kiyosaki’s Choose To Be Rich, and I have to say that it is outstanding. Probably one of the top three book on building wealth I’ve come across, and as you know I’ve read (or listened to) a lot. He gets into all sorts of topics in the book, but [...]
Nobody Achieves Anything Without Failure (huh?)
20 Nov 2007Sometimes people ask me questions like: Why take the risk of quitting your job? I was just listening to Brian Tracy speak in The Psychology of Achievement, and he phrases it better than I could have: Every single peak performing human being, every single high achieving man or woman, has been a person who has [...]
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