11 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business

Glitter was literally shooting out of my eye sockets as I quit my PR job to “be my own boss.” Then reality struck.

White Hat SEO Case Study — How I Increased Traffic to Over 100,000 Visitors per Month

Why You Should have a Messy Desk

Einstein: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of…

A System For Email Productivity

How to regularly get to “inbox zero”…

All of your emails can fit into one of the following 7 categories…

1. No need to reply, and not important to read. Take a moment and consider this: most of your…

My Employees Reviewed me, and I Kind of Suck

Reconciling Your Shortcomings is Tough Stuff

Eradicate the startup pitch event

Why pitch events reinforce the wrong things and what we could do…

The New Retirement Age Is Thirty

The Changing Face of Work

Growing up, assuming you came from a decent home, you probably watched your parents haul off to work every day so they could put food on the table, clothes on your back and a roof over your head. Or some…

I Failed All My Classes and that’s Why I’m Winning

In hindsight, the fact that I was considered a…

Gut investing

Investing with your gut

Just before heading out on stage at a tech conference, TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington asked me, “You’ve invested in a lot of great startups, how do you pick your companies?” I responded, “I trust my gut” — he seemed unsatisfied and told me, “You’ve…

Walter White and The 48 Laws of Power

The strategy and tactics of Breaking Bad