Month: April 2019

From 2013-2017 my partner and I rented a small apartment in Boston as our company “office” and went there very day with our employees. We were still very hands on and we were most productive together. It was a scrappy time where we really accomplished a lot to set us up for the success we […]

Show notes from podcast episode 46. The great thing about entering an existing market is that the moving parts are already out there ready for us to study. The customers are there. The competitors are one click and one phone call away. There are three factors in business on which we can choose to compete. […]

Show notes from Episode 44. A lesson in the power of getting face to face with people in this interview with entrepreneur Max Maher. He owns a company in Phoenix called Skinny Wimp Moving. Hes 23 years old and brings in over a million a year in sales with a 30% profit margin. He did […]

I moved into a new house recently and all of my amazing storage space had cheap crappy wire shelving inside. The main issues were my walk in closet: And my laundry room: I didn’t get a before picture of the pantry but it was also pretty bad. So I called California Closets and Inspired closets. […]

Show notes from podcast episode 45. I rarely dive into my my own business here but I have a story and a lesson worth sharing. I’m always learning and failing and getting back up and pressing onward. I got some bad news this week. A self storage development project that I had been working on […]

Show notes from Sweaty Startup podcast episode 43. Your ego begins to cloud your judgement Ego is a touchy balancing act. Early on the ego is what leads to success. It’s what suppresses the fear of failure and the anxiety that goes along with a new business. It’s what allows someone to be comfortable doing […]

Show notes from The Sweaty Startup podcast episode 42. Analysis paralysis is the act of over-analyzing and over-researching a potential business venture to the point of taking no action at all for long periods of time. Ready… Aim. Aim. Aim. Aim. Aim. Never firing a shot. I would say this (along with the fear of failure) […]

We all know that feeling of failure. That feeling of inadequacy. The feeling of rejection. The feeling of embarrassment. The anxiety that comes along with entrepreneurship and generally anything that is worth doing in life. Mine was a basketball game in southern Indiana. Basketball is intense in southern indiana. I was a sophomore and I […]

Successful business owners are assumed to be busy. They hear “I know you are very very busy” all the time. Successful people aren’t busy. It’s great that people respect their time but successful people are not busy. They just say no a lot. They prioritize what they spend their time doing. They don’t do things […]

I live in Seattle. My girlfriend’s brother has a lot of expertise in the roofing industry and wants to start a business with me. Heres the catch – he doesn’t have citizenship so he would need me to form the business, get insurance, run the administrative side of things, and set it all up. I […]