Happy Fourth of July! America is a truly a great nation and a land of opportunity despite its many faults! Sometimes I forget this. Warren Buffett likes to say that in spite of his success ($89 billion net worth), he has no reason to act puffed up because he won the "ovarian lottery". First, he was born at a time and place (America) where a mind like his commands extraordinary financial rewards! As Read more
Image Credit: Seattle Times Introduction Dan Shapiro is the founder and CEO of Glowforge. He previously founded Robot Turtles, Sparkbuy (renamed Google Comparison), and PhotoBucket. For this episode of How We Made It In E-Commerce , Shapiro shares interesting moments in his journey as an entrepreneur. Listen to the Podcast or Watch the Video and Discover The specific tactics Dan used to set Read more
Re-sharing this pic from Lex Fridman and additional context by Dimas Rahardja In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racism America’s “worst disease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people, adding, “ Read more
The 7 Laws of Sales Success: Violate any one of these and your toil will be in vain... 1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. My advice is to walk up and hit the ball. 2. Sales is about people and problem solving. Not technology or solutions. 3. People buy 4 things and 4 things only: time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind. If y Read more