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My #1 mistake as a 6x entrepreneur? 
 
That I repeated three times. 
 
Shortcuts. 
 
Many times in my life, super rich guys have offered me dream opportunities to come join their thing. 
 
Three times I said yes. 
 
In my earlier days when I...

Founders, if you were a VC  

→ Name 3 things you would change? 

I've always had a love-hate relationship with venture capital. 

Venture capitalists like to think they get to choose the winners and the losers. Too often there's a pungent air of elitism in the VC...

After failing for 11 months, I started selling 1 million a month. Here's what changed. 

First, the answer was right in front of me the whole time. I could have done it day one, but I was solution-blind. 

I couldn't see the solution even though it was right in front...

When you talk to them they'll tell you they have a God-planted dream inside them. And many have been pregnant with this dream for far too long! 

It's time to have the baby. 

I've never seen so many faith-driven getting equipped to master entrepreneurship.  

Kingdom...

The best way to understand God's Word is to read it.  

The best way to know God, is to read His Word for yourself. 

The worst and most popular way is to allow someone else to read it for you — and then tell you what it means, and what to believe. 

Can...

The startup school of hard-knocks has taught me how to be both a thermometer and a thermostat in my ventures. 

I've had to learn how to understand what's going on, and how to change it. 

- What's the temperature? (truth) 
- How do I change it? 

We mostly mess...

90% of entrepreneurs are feeling sidelined. They're injured sitting on the sidelines in pain. Mostly alone.  

It's easy to be full of passion and excitement when you first get started. 

But every bootstrapper or a startup founder seeking VC has to crack-the-code....

Are you in a season where nothing seems to be working out? Perhaps I'm writing this to you. 

I've never seen someone fail this much. 

- Born into poverty.  

- His family forced into homelessness at age 7. 

- His mom dies at age 9. 

Building a lifestyle business isn't just a dream. It's become the opiate for many solopreneurs. Especially the broke ones.  

Imagine the allure. 

- Freedom to choose your hours. 
- The power to work from anywhere. 
- No boss, no office politics. 

But here's...

If God answered all your prayers, would the world be changed?  

If you love the world the way it is, perhaps that might explain the absence of these sort of prayers. 

Or if your life is going great and the plight of others isn't a priority in your life, your selfishness is on...

There are two types of people who tell us having money isn't important. 

#1 - People with money 
#2 - Poor people  

I call BS.  

Take away the money from the people with money — watch their tune change. 

In this world, money is oxygen, you need it to...

Some simple sales math every founder should know, but 90% don't.

Once you know it, sales seem to soar.

You are always only "X" number of sales appointments/demos (a month) away from hitting your sales goals.

This is a question I ask every founder I meet with. 90% can't tell me because...