Category: Business Training

  • Challenging All Entrepreneurs:  Never Give Up!

    Challenging All Entrepreneurs: Never Give Up!

    Ever since I was a small child I remember my grandmother being there for me during many of my most challenging moments.  From typical childhood stuff like not doing well in school or a girl I had a crush on rejecting me to more intense things later in life like when I took company #2…

  • Quick Guide To Knowing Your Crucial Numbers

    Vince Lombardi was considered by many to be one of the best NFL head coaches of all time. The Super Bowl trophy is named after him. And whether you like American football or not, many of his strategies and principles are applied in business today. For example, Lombardi was famous for going into the locker…

  • How to Know When to Let It Go?

    How to Know When to Let It Go?

    Walking into that board meeting was one of the hardest things I had to do. Having spent the past six years working over 80 hours a week almost every day of the year, I was exhausted and feeling like a failure. While our company started off on a really great run, it was now losing…

  • How to Leverage Your Company Vision

    How to Leverage Your Company Vision

    Last week we managed to raise a large chunk of money for my new company, the Shift Group. Contrary to what many investors and funding experts may say, our company still doesn’t have a MVP (minimal viable product) nor did we get the money from friends and family (typically where the money comes from at…

  • 8 Steps to Achieving Critical Mass

    8 Steps to Achieving Critical Mass

    Early last month my wife and I were enjoying our walk around the park just steps from our new home here in Brooklyn. At one point we stopped and could not help but worry about the local geese, swans and various species of birds that were standing on the frozen pond covered in snow that…