Elon Musk may be the greatest technologist and visionary of our time. He has guts, intelligence and a great sense of humor (which is often on display on Twitter when his many trolls attack him). And these characteristics of Musk’s were demonstrated this past weekend at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. Jonathan…
As you all know, the Philadelphia Eagles pulled off an upset last weekend in Super Bowl 52 by beating the New England Patriots, led by the greatest quarterback ever to play the game, Tom Brady. The Eagles managed to pull off the historic upset with their backup, journeyman quarterback Nick Foles… this is a guy…
Part of a successful advertisement or piece of copy is diffusing apprehension about your industry and brand. Making it easy, and ideally even comforting, for the consumer to purchase your product is paramount. It’s essential your customer feels they made a smart decision when buying your product – an intelligent decision to part ways with…
The UFC has historically paid its fighters much less than professional boxers. It has been a fighting ‘league’ as opposed to a prize fighting venue, with contracts and rather small fight bonuses for such things as ‘knockout of the night.’ No UFC champion has been able to make (from fighting) even half of what a WBO…
It’s a startup that began with a $200,000 investment from its founders and five years later flourished into THE ride sharing company with a $60+ billion valuation. In 2013, before it became a household name, we knew two things about this brilliant startup (and wrote about it at the time here): It would take off and…
Entrepreneur Erik Prince is controversial in many Liberal circles and revered by most Conservatives. One thing’s for certain, he’s incredibly accomplished as an entrepreneur, having built the biggest private military contracting firm in US history and now leading Frontier Services Group – a logistics company primarily operating in Africa. In a past interview, he humorously dubbed…
Emmanuel Macron, France’s version of Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama, is now President… Today, Macron became the youngest leader of the French people since Napoleon. And he beat the bold, controversial and nationalistic Marine Le Pen. Le Pen, for all her pro-nationalist/populist rhetoric, from my perspective, was hardly the far-right candidate the media made her…
Hillary Clinton’s economic plan for America involves a hell of a lot of new taxes, an estimated $1.3 trillion in fact. She initially branded her astronomical tax hike idea as making the ‘rich’ pay more, all in the name of fairness… But as we all know, such a gargantuan tax hike like that ends up…
Now that both political party conventions are over, it’s easy to identify America’s choices in 2016… the contrasts between Trump and Clinton are blatant… and the same can be said for the candidates’ daughters. While both women are accomplished and very intelligent, from an entrepreneur’s perspective one clearly out-shined the other. You can measure someone…