Wanted to take a moment to celebrate the life of Karl Eller.Karl helped instill a confidence in me that I could be an entrepreneur, a CEO, and a marketer. He did this in a really easy, and subtle way. He simply accepted my invitations. First to be interviewed early on in the first Pursue The …
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Whenever someone is doing a cross country trip, I usually get connected to them through a mutual friend to set up a time to pick my brain on some lessons I learned through successfully launching a series of sponsored cross country roadtrips. Here’s a couple general notes I share in each of these conversations… 1. …
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Business – $300,000 in monthly revenue in 18 months (by 6/1/2020) – Occupy the office space currently occupied by Arizona Weddings by 7/1/2017 – $60,000 in monthly revenue in 6 months (by 7/1/16) – 6 Barrett Honors Graduates with a Journalism degree by 7/1/16 Career Financial – $1 annual salary (because there is $30M in …
Great paella recipe. First cooked on Christmas Eve, 2014. 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon paprika 2 teaspoons dried oregano salt and black pepper to taste 2 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into 2 inch pieces 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 2 cups uncooked …
I read this book about Magellan and his circumvention around the world. There was a passage about how he tried to recruit Spanish men to embark on his voyage to the Spice Islands. I thought it supported the quote that “talent will always be hard to find,” and I thought you’d enjoy reading the passage. …
Going into lunch with Karl Eller, I wanted three things: 1) To talk about his time as President of Columbia Pictures 2) To talk about how he wakes up at 3:00am 3) To talk about business opportunities in an evolving media marketplace The majority of the time was spent talking about the latter. My takeaways …
Two researchers from HP Labs had a question: could you predict box office revenues for movies based off of the activity in social media? What they found is that their ‘social media analysis model’ was more powerful of a predictor than the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Their model? Analyzing the tweet rates per movie, and then …
Greetings from Homer, Alaska, where the seagulls bully the bald eagles and 50 pound halibut fish are the norm. A drinking town with a fishing habit, Homer is the embodiment of Alaska. The state of Alaska, with the exception of the city of Anchorage, offers the rare attraction of witnessing nature untamed. Travel thirty minutes …
There’s a little pizza shop in Spokane, Washington that has been voted the best pizza in Spokane in each of the last 14 years. The average employee tenure is 3.5 years, when the restaurant industry average is 1 year. What’s going on at this little pizza shop that can be replicated at your business? What’s …