How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
In: Education| Interviews
22 Oct 2008As requested, here is an audio recording of my talk from yesterday titled “Successfully Starting A Business On A Shoestring”.
You can click play below and listen to it in your browser if you’d like. However, it’s about 45 minutes long so if it’s more convenient, feel to right click the “download” link below and [...]
In: Education| Interviews
2 Oct 2008I really enjoyed watching this talk by Warren Buffet last night. I hope you get a chance to watch it as well.
Here are some of my favorite parts (paraphrased)…
If you had to pick one person who you’d get 10% of their income for the rest of their life, who would you pick? [...]
In: How To| Incorporation| Interviews
12 Aug 2008This video shows an interesting panel of people who’ve started web companies:
Marcus Kazmierczak, VP of Engineering, MayasMom.com
Marcus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com
James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com
Dave Lu, CEO, Fanpop.com
Karen Northup, CEO and Founder, CoreFino
Check out a hilarious story around the 18:57 mark from James Hong about how he bootstrapped HotOrNot.com for literally zero dollars. [...]
In: Interviews
31 Jul 2008Yaro Starak has got a couple more great pieces of content up.
First, of all you can check out this interview he did with Alborz Fallah.
Alborz started a blog about cars that is targetted to the Australian market. It now makes over a half million per year in revenue and is valued at $5 Million. [...]
In: Interviews
30 Mar 2008This is not an interview that I did, but I really like it and have listened to it many times. Ignore the part at the beginning if you don’t live in Houston, but listen all the way through. It is absolutely outstanding.
Some of my favorite parts (paraphrased):
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. [...]
In: Interviews
5 Mar 2008Today we have another Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire.
My guest is Howard Rambin, who is the CEO and co-founder of the
largest commercial real estate firm in Houston, TX, Moody Rambin
Interests.
Howard has literally bought and sold hundred of properties worth
many millions of dollars, and he has some great advice for people
just getting started in their own [...]
In: Interviews
20 Feb 2008I came across these interviews I did a while back, and wanted to repost them for those who haven’t heard them. Hope you get something out of it!
Kevin Morgan is the CEO of Eskimo Hut, a chain of convenience stores. He started with just one store in Amarillo, TX and now owns 17 [...]
In: Interviews
21 Aug 2007I always like to hear about innovative business models, and todays interview is with the CEO of a company that teaches men and women how to get more dates and attract the opposite sex!
Nick is President and CEO of Love Systems Corporation and is the author of Magic Bullets, the “bible” of dating science and [...]
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