A venture I was coaching had a team of senior management that has been getting overwhelmed by the number of new projects, tasks, e-mails, phone calls, and overal responsibilities that are being taken on. So I figured I’d re-post on the topic and share with you some techniques and methodologies on getting order from your [...]
It’s 3AM in the morning and I’m wired! The rapidly growing success of the hedge fund I helped start almost 6 years ago has been based in the principles that I’ve been teaching and coaching ventures on for almost 8 years. Several of the largest financial institutions and family offices are knocking on the door [...]
A group of Microsoft employees took 15 minutes on average to return to serious mental tasks after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, Tony Schwarz the CEO of the Energy Project talks about the magic of doing one thing at a time. Everything is point towards [...]
In a recent article in BusinessWeek, idiot Matt Sornson thought that putting direct current into his brain via tDCS, or Transcranial direct-current stimulation, would improve his ability to brain to Flow as in the book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, which is a great book. If you want to increase your mental productivity you don’t need tDCS or [...]
I’m helping a fast growing venture that is almost 10 years old and they are in the process of hiring a new manager for the business. We have been going through the process of putting together a profile and starting to find potential candidates for the position. Part of the conversation went to compensation structure [...]
A couple days ago, a mid-sized venture asked about needing visibility on what their 50 employees are up to. This is a unique situation as they had specific things they were trying to see. So here are the requirements: Track hours of virtual employees See how those hours are being allocated to projects See “twitter [...]
As an entrepreneur, I’ve asked myself how much time should I and my employees be working on an annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily basis. What is the ideal amount so I’m in the game and still balancing my life? This of course is assuming you’ve got the right job, manager, office, etc, so barring [...]
I travel all the time, and I want access to everything on my home server, which of course is also additionally backed up on the cloud. I could use a service like SugarSync and sync all the files on my home server, then get access to all the files, but that wouldn’t let me stream [...]
After starting a family, a need manifests itself of reducing your family’s financial risk. So growing I believed that in order to create financial freedom I should build a venture a large enough venture that when I would sell it, it would create a pile of capital to cover my expenses, allow me to be [...]
Answer: LLC I recently sat down with a new startup that wanted to get our help to coach them through the growth process of their software company. A friend of theirs mentioned that their lawyers has set them up as an S-Corporation. I asked them why. Not terribly surprisingly they didn’t know exactly other than [...]
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