This morning, it was snowing so much they canceled my kids’ schools. I pushed my way through the wind and snow, arrived at the train station to board my train to work just on time, and sat down to write this. I listened as passengers on...
Ah, February. The snow is blasting down upon New York as I write this, while my wife and children are still snuggling in bed, excited for yet another snow day. Groundhog Day predicted another 6 weeks of winter. But another holiday is here that can...
Jason Fried had it going great. He had a successful software company in 37 Signals, and several products including Basecamp, used by millions of people across the planet. For many leaders, that's the time to expand- to go for more, to grow other product lines...
This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers share the best advice they've ever received.Read all the posts here. When I first started out my career as a salesperson for Radio Disney at the age of 22, I was young and foolish (well,...
Dumbfounded. That’s how I felt, as I sat on the end of a phone conversation one spring afternoon in 2009. My wife and I had worked hard to build a word of mouth and social media marketing agency over the two and half years that preceded...
Like many of you, I love the ABC hit television show, Shark Tank. Every Friday night, my wife and I gather around the couch with our 11 year old daughter to watch entrepreneurs pitch the "Sharks" to invest in their burgeoning businesses. The show provides...
Today is St. Patrick's Day - a day we celebrate the luck of the Irish, and luck everywhere. As I shared in a recent post, luck played a huge role in helping me build Likeable Media into the company it is today when I got...
Adam Braun was on the fast track to what many people would consider extraordinary success - at 16 years old, he was already working summers at hedge funds, and stood a chance at becoming a millionaire in his 20's thanks to the Wall Street high...
A few weeks ago I received a postcard in the mail from the CEO of Petra Coach, the creator of Align Software and a fellow member of Entrepreneurs Organization. I've never met him, but Andy Bailey and his postcard that I hung up on my...
Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it”...