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This is an excerpt from Trevor Noah's amazing autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood The money kept rolling in and I was balling out of control. This is how balling I was: I bought a cordless telephone. This was before everyone had a cellphone. The range on this cordless phone was strong enough that I could put the base outside my window, walk the two blocks to McDonald’s, order my l Read more
A little background on the author, Chet Holmes. He worked for Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's billionaire business partner. Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio companies were the test lab for many of the techniques. Chet doubled revenues for one of their businesses three years in a row, eliciting the following response from Charlie: "Chet, are you sure we are not lying, cheating or stealing? In all my years in business, Read more
This is the third and final part of the Blue Ocean Strategy series. Parts one and two can be found below: Part 1: Blue Ocean Strategy -- Finding and Exploiting Uncontested Markets Part 2: Blue Ocean Strategy -- Discovering a "Value Innovation" Idea Blue Ocean ideas are all over the place just waiting to be discovered. But finding them is often like a trying to find a specific shell on a huge beach. Commerci Read more
I thought I’d share something I learned from Russell Brunson’s book Expert Secrets , which I recommend. It is a way of positioning something in a new and sexy light—finding a way to carve out a little blue pond out of a red ocean, to use the “Blue Ocean” terminology. To illustrate the 5 hooks he uses an example from the weight loss industry. Here is a direct excerpt from his boo Read more
This is a Q&A with Dr. Basil Peters , the CEO of Strategic Exits corp, best-selling author of Early Exits and successful entrepreneur—he was the founder of Nexus engineering, now part of Cisco, that grew to over 300 employees on 5 continents. Let’s start with a brief background. You were the CEO and founder of Nexus Engineering that is now part of Cisco. Tell us how you got into the venture capital business. I starte Read more
