What does it mean to “short” a stock? What are the implications of GameStop’s Short squeeze? The Entrepreneur’s Perspective TL;DR– Short selling is a legal way to bet a stock will fall– A short squeeze happens when rising prices force short sellers to buy– GameStop revealed how retail coordination can move markets In early […]
Go to Amazon and Get a Copy of “Remote Work for a Better World” The 3 Stages of Remote Work: From Individual Productivity to Fully Distributed Companies Remote work didn’t just arrive overnight. It accelerated a trajectory that had been forming for decades. What most people miss is that remote work is not a single
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Why Most MLM Business Models Collapse (It Comes Down to One Metric) Multi-level marketing (MLM) is one of those topics that immediately creates controversy. Every time I talk about it, people message me, comment, and push back hard. So instead of arguing emotionally, let’s talk about this like adults.Let’s talk about business mechanics. Because when
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Time, Capital, and the Modern Business System One of the biggest misunderstandings about modern business is the relationship between time, growth, and profitability. Most people assume businesses either make money or they don’t. In reality, profitability is often delayed by design, not by incompetence. The modern business environment is brutally competitive. Starting a business and
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The Position to Win System: The Seven Strategic Layers That Decide Business Success Before It Starts Most businesses don’t fail because of execution. They fail long before that — in the first five minutes, during positioning, setup, and strategic framing. It just takes three to five years of slow, painful capital loss for founders to
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The Five Leverage Points to do MORE The Real Question Isn’t “How Do I Do MORE?” How do I create more output from the same inputs. Most people look for: But the truth is simpler and harder at the same time: Most income growth comes from leverage, not reinvention. You don’t need to abandon what
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What’s the Best Way to Manage Your Time? A Framework for Real Effectiveness Most people misunderstand time management. They think it’s about calendars, productivity apps, or squeezing more tasks into the day.That approach fails because time is not the real problem. The real problem is what you choose to do with the time you already
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Travel Often: I Said Often, Not Far Lessons From Being on the Road I recently took two trips that looked very different on paper. One was a three-and-a-half-hour drive to Austin.The other was a six-hour flight to Cartagena. Both lasted five days. What surprised me wasn’t how different they were—but how similar the lessons turned
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The Sales Process: Don’t Convince — Select Sales isn’t broken.The mental model people use for sales is. Most people think sales is about convincing—persuading someone to do something they’re hesitant to do. That’s why sales carries so much stigma. Nobody wants to feel pushed. Nobody wants their agency taken away. But here’s the truth: People
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Persuasion and the Strength vs. Warmth Paradox Persuasion isn’t about tricks, tactics, or clever manipulation. At its core, persuasion is about how people perceive you—specifically, how they evaluate your strength and your warmth. This creates one of the most important paradoxes in leadership, business, and human relationships: The more warmth you show, the less competent
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USP: The Most Important Thing You Can Do in Your Business If there’s one question every business must be able to answer clearly and confidently, it’s this: Why should someone buy from you instead of anyone else? That question sits at the heart of your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)—and it’s not a marketing trick, a
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Deceptive, Then Disruptive: Why Exponential Technologies Leave Businesses Behind Most business failures don’t happen because leaders are careless or unintelligent. They happen because change doesn’t look dangerous at first. It looks small.It looks optional.It looks like something you can deal with later. That’s the trap. When technologies follow exponential curves, they don’t announce themselves loudly.
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On Lead Companies, CAC, and Sustainable Growth The Only Two Things in Business That Matter On Lead Companies, CAC, and Sustainable Growth Most business conversations get lost in tactics. Tools. Platforms. Hacks. Vendors. Trends. But when you strip everything down, business comes back to two fundamental systems—and nothing else matters without them. This short lesson
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The Guppy Fish Paradox: How to Make Better Decisions When You Don’t Know Enough In the first Guppy Fish talk, I shared a simple behavioral story that explains a huge amount of human behavior. Female guppy fish prefer the brightest male. But when all the males cluster together, it becomes hard to distinguish who’s actually
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The Problem Is Choice: The Guppy Fish Paradox Every day, we make choices. Some are trivial—what to wear, what to eat. Others shape the trajectory of our lives—who to partner with, what to study, what career to pursue. The challenge isn’t that we lack choices. It’s that we are forced to choose with limited information,
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