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8 Dec 2009

Ok, so about a week ago I received an email from a Breaking Free reader.
He began “Dear Citizen Brian” and went on to explain that yes, he was in fact a real life super hero who dressed in costume and patrolled various areas of Australia, intimidating the criminal element. He also wanted help spreading his message and [...]

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Entrepreneur/Hacker Meetup In Buenos Aires

In: Success Stories| Updates

19 Nov 2009

Andrew Warner and I put together a little entrepreneur meetup last night which turned out really well.
Well actually, I emailed Andrew when I saw on his blog that he was in Buenos Aires, and he had the great idea to post the meeting to Hacker News. It ended up being a pretty good turnout.
Buenos Aires [...]

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Made It To Buenos Aires!!

In: Lifestyle| Success Stories| Updates

9 May 2009

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Living AbroadFor those you of you who were wondering, I made it safe and sound to Buenos Aires, and the last 5 days have been a wild ride!

I won’t lie – when I was taking the bus into town from the airport (after 17 hours [...]

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: BuyersVote.com

In: Business Ideas| Success Stories| Updates

22 Apr 2009

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series BuyersVote.comThe announcement is finally here! In the last week I launched BuyersVote.com.
Here is the description from the about page which describes the site:

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Friends help you make buying decisions every day…
This phone is great!
That mechanic is a crook!
We know we can trust our friends (unlike advertisements) [...]

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How To Get A Good Mentor!

In: Interviews| Success Stories

8 Jan 2009

Don’t be afraid to ask!
Neil Patel, put up an interesting post on his blog today about his mentor. He also generously offered to give his own time in case anyone had questions.
As you may know, I’m very big on finding good mentors (especially people who are successful and have already done what I’m trying [...]

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Entrepreneurs don’t worry about the economy. We have busines to do…

In: Lifestyle| Success Stories

26 Oct 2008

Some excellent writing on entrepreneurship came out in the blogosphere lately.
Check out this brilliant article by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Here are some of my favorite quotes:
On why entrepreneurs are the cure for every economic crisis…
Entrepreneurs who create something out of nothing don’t care what tax rates are…The impact of tax rates on productivity [...]

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37signals Live: Thursday, September 11 at 11:00am central time

In: How To| Success Stories| Updates

10 Sep 2008

Be sure to check out 37 Signals live web cast tomorrow. Their last few have been pretty good, but this one is right up our alley: How to go from business idea to business launch, something I’ve written about quite a bit in the past.
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Please join us this Thursday, September 11 at 11am [...]

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An Awesome Way To Get Feedback From Your Customers

In: How To| Success Stories

1 Sep 2008

I stumbled across this excellent resource today. It’s called UserVoice and it’s a free tool to collect feedback from your users and let them make suggestions.

The reason why this is so brilliant is that it’s something you know you should do with every project, but it’s low enough priority that you never get around [...]

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Innocent Smoothies Richard Reed – Inspiring Entrepreneur

In: Business Ideas| Success Stories

13 Jul 2008

Great video to watch.
As a side note: it’s interesting for me to see people combining charity and entrepreneurship like this. While I think the only way to make money is to help people, the goals of a non profit and a for profit company are not always in alignment. I wonder if by [...]

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Breaking Free Case Study: Ronald Jenkees

In: Business Ideas| Success Stories

27 Jun 2008

In Breaking Free I outline a number of ways that people can generate passive income to forever leave their jobs. And as you know I always like to see new examples of that…
Well I recently stumbled across this YouTube video of a guy named Ronald Jenkees and it struck me how the internet has [...]

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