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The $10MM Gross Revenue Reality Check

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:58:15 +0000

If you are a startup, I hope one day soon you get to $10,000,000 in gross revenue. If you do, I have some thoughts for you. A caveat first — there are a great number of exceptions to what I am going to share with you, so do not fall prey to missing the difference […]

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In The Absence Of Talent

Big Red Car — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:24:44 +0000

In addition to mentoring CEOs, I often speak to promising young persons — usually sent my way by their parents — to give them wise counsel as to how to fashion their career or to find the right career. A good many of them have an entrepreneurial bent — so they think — and a […]

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Virginia Military Institute — the BEST Mentoring System in the World

Big Red Car — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:17:58 +0000

Mentoring is/was a fashionable topic amongst the venture capital and startup Illuminati for years. I have written about it for a long time. A good mentor can make a mediocre founder into a winner. Full disclosure: I run a CEO coaching/mentoring business called The Wisdom of the Campfire and have for a dozen years. I […]

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The Key to Life Finding Your Passion? Nope

Big Red Car — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:46:54 +0000

I was reading a bit of advice that trotted out the old shibboleth of: “Finding your passion is the key to life.” The presumption was you had to find your passion as a prelude to getting on with your life and that you should not take a step without knowing what that passion truly was. […]

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CEO Shoptalk: Urgent Patience

Big Red Car — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:37:02 +0000

A chap asks me, “In your 50 years of CEO-ing and leadership what did you learn that was unexpected?” I had a couple of weeks to think about it and I answered, “Urgent patience!” To which the chap replied, “What the Hell is ‘urgent patience’ and why is it important?” There is not much unknown […]

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Defense Wins Ball Games

Big Red Car — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:29:11 +0000

On Saturday, the University of North Carolina defeated Georgia Tech in a tightly contested, fierce conference game in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Every ACC game is a vicious fight, in this instance made moreso because Georgia Tech beat the Heels for the last two years, injecting blood into the water. The final score was 88-65 […]

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CEO Shoptalk — End-Of-Year Reflection And Musing

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:58:54 +0000

A client of mine a few years ago said, “You always make me think, and I prepare for our meetings.” That is a good thing and it makes me feel good. Nothing wrong with thinking, but it should be more than that. At the end of every year, a CEO/founder/entrepreneur should conduct a bit of […]

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Lowering The Zoom Boom! Vishal Garg

Big Red Car — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:20:13 +0000

Remember this name: Vishal Garg. Vishal is/was the Chief Executive Officer of a digital mortgage company called Better.com. Better.com — who are they? Better.com, founded in 2016, operates in the United States and India with its headquarters in New York. It is currently pursuing a SPAC merger (resulting in a public company) with Aurora Acquisition […]

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CEO Shoptalk – The Mantle Of Power

Big Red Car — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:06:36 +0000

The best job I’ve ever had was as the company commander of a combat engineer company in the Army. It is like being a Chinese feudal war lord which is reputed to be a very good gig. Company D as in Delta was in need of a firm hand having failed to pass its annual […]

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When The Student Is Ready . . . . .

Big Red Car — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:13:23 +0000

I get a lot of emails from readers of this blog. I answer all of them. Often when someone asks me a question, I just call them under the theory of, “If it can be dispensed with within two minutes or less, do it now.” A substantial number of emails are about The Wisdom of […]

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