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MindValley Wins Award For Most Democratic Workplace

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Read more about Entrepreneurship

Mind­Val­ley was just rec­og­nized by World­Blu as one of the Most Demo­c­ra­tic Work­places of 2008!

First of all, this award would not have been pos­si­ble with­out any of you at Mind­Val­ley and I wanted to thank all of you for hav­ing taken Mind­Val­ley this far. Spe­cial thanks go out to Jiangti, KhaiLee, Janne, Wu Han, and […]

Simple vs Complex

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Read more about Entrepreneurship

When the laugh­ter died down in the back room of the focus-group facil­ity, I was told that this pro­posal was DOA, for two rea­sons. First, the prod­uct man­ager would never meet her employer’s aggres­sive finan­cial objec­tives sell­ing shrink-wrapped soft­ware priced at $15 a copy. Sec­ond, every­one on the client team assured me that it would […]

How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Become Successful?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Read more about Entrepreneurship

I just came back from a 3-day con­fer­ence in Los Ange­les, and because I learned a lot from the long 16hour, 7am-10pm days, I’ll have a lot to share over the next few weeks…
Brian Tracy is a per­sonal devel­op­ment coach; his talks and sem­i­nar top­ics include lead­er­ship, sales, man­age­r­ial effec­tive­ness and busi­ness strat­egy. In short, he […]

How to Get from 20 Million to 100 Million in Online Sales: Lessons from Agora Publishing

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Read more about Entrepreneurship

Lately, I’ve been think­ing a lot about the suc­cess of our com­peti­tors such as Cen­ter­pointe and espe­cially, Agora Pub­lish­ing. I don’t know how I did it, but I stum­bled across the entire col­lec­tion of Agora swipe files.
Michael Mas­ter­son is the founder of Agora. I’ve read some of his work, and I have bought his books before. […]

Our Return to Blogging After a 4 Month Break

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Read more about Articles, Entrepreneurship

Mike and I stopped updat­ing this blog fre­quently some­time around Sep­tem­ber 2007. But this month we’re back. In a big way. But more on that in a lit­tle bit.
First let me tell you why we had take such a long break.
For me, it was due to this little guy.

My son, Hay­den Lakhi­ani was born in Esto­nia on September […]

Your Questions Answered: What does it typically cost per month to start and fund a new ecommerce website?

Monday, October 9th, 2006 Read more about Articles, Entrepreneurship, Pay per click advertising

Nila, a real-estate bro­ker from North Car­olina asked the fol­low­ing ques­tions:
After I bought your book, how much a month should I spend to make this work? If I only have a bud­get of $250.00/mo, is this sys­tem going to work for me?
One for the beau­ties of start­ing an ecom­merce busi­ness is that it […]