Jason Calacanis Answers My Question On "This Week In Startups"

I asked Jason Calacanis on the This Week In Startups Ask Jason segment how Apple Watch will deal with glanceables, a new form of UI intended to deliver a user a notification and then return them back to their day as fast as possible. Jason answered and here is what he had to say: 

why glancables are going to be the next big thing in wearables: interacting w/your devices with your... eyes! https://t.co/mv4sDgIuqv

— jason (@Jason) October 2, 2015

Getting Featured On BGR.com

Last week I was walking down 5th Avenue in New York City and noticed that people were already outside in line waiting for the iPhone 6s to come out more than a week before it's release. So I snapped a quick pic, tweeted it out, and kept walking. That was it. 

Then I Friday I saw on a mention on Twitter that the photo I took last week was featured on BGR.com, Boy Genius Report. Thought that was pretty cool. It goes to show the importance of always creating and putting something out there, can pay off even when you don't expect it to. The link to the full BGR.com article is above and a screenshot of the mention in the Boy Genius Report article is below. 

Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice on Ambition Today

On this episode of Ambition Today, I was joined by serial entrepreneur Shahab Kaviani. Shahab is most notably the co-founder of CoFoundersLab, a global organization helping entrepreneurs find their co-founder and launch lasting new businesses together. Previously he cofounded Hyperoffice and recently he is the co-founder of a new company Breezio, which is a collaboration platform for research scientist to accelerate discoveries through team science.

Today we discuss Shahab's journey through serial entrepreneurship. We explore some questions such as: 

• When is the right time to replace yourself as CEO?

• What to do when Google decides to enter your market?

• How to test your companies MVP offline without even building a website?

• Who could be the right company to merge with?

• The new Ambition Today Question of the Day ( Q.O.T.D.™ )

• And More

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Early Pitch Decks of Billion Dollar Unicorn Startups

That photo app you were just using, the news feed your looking at, the website you just closed to book your vacation, all those companies had pitch decks long before most people ever heard of their name. Now those companies are worth billions of dollars. So what does early success look like? Here are the early pitch decks of some billion dollar startups, "unicorns"; Snapchat, AirBnB, Buzzfeed, Facebook, and Square

Snapchat - $16 Billlion Valuation

Snapchat business deck

AirBnB - $25.5 Billion Valuation

AirBnB Pitch Deck from PitchDeckCoach

Buzzfeed - $1.5 Billion Valuation

Buzzfeed investor deck 2008 from Chris Ellis

Facebook - $261 Billion Valuation

Square - $6 Billion Valuation

Square pitch deck from pitchenvy

How To Be As Famous As Taylor Swift, Casey Neistat, and Tim Ferriss

I would like to thank Michal Sadowski, a mentor for the Founder Institute New York and the founder of Brand 24. Michal was kind enough to show me how to use his Brand 24's platform for monitoring your online presence.

How many online mentions do you need everyday to achieve fame? How can you be as famous as Taylor Swift. Lets find out how to be famous.

To start analyzing this I used Brand 24's platform to start monitoring the online presence of a few celebrities which were at different stages of fame. I first looked at Tim Ferriss, a 3x New York Times best selling author, famous blogger, and podcaster. Second I analyzed Casey Neistat, a HBO and mainstream film maker who is recently working on a daily vlogging project he publishes to YouTube. Last but not least I looked at the data for Taylor Swift, one of the most famous musicians and people on the planet. 

The key metric in determining popularity and fame we will be using is "daily mentions" when looking at the Brand 24 data. This data includes mentions on the open internet across blogs, forums, news, video, photo, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and more. So lets look at each of these celebrities to see their number of daily mentions in the last 30 days and estimated social reach. 

Tim Ferriss - 1,311 mentions across 30 days

How famous is Tim Ferriss? The case of Tim Ferriss is interesting because he has such a unique and loyal fan following as a New York Times bestseller, blogger, and podcaster. Tim Averaged between 25-75 mentions on the open web per day which creates in the tens of thousands for estimated audience size. Comparing the blue scale bar of mentions on the left, 0 - 100, to the green scale bar on the right of estimated social reach, 0 - 600k, it is very interesting to see how a small number of mentions can quickly multiply to a large audience. 

Casey Neistat - 3,237 mentions across 30 days

How famous is Casey Neistat? Casey's main platform is YouTube. He is also an avid SnapChatter, which unfortunately this analysis does not account for as it is privately scene in app on mobile devices. Across the open internet though Casey averaged about 50-100 mentions per day. These mentions generate an average estimated audience of 30 to 40 thousand people. This is on top of the almost 400,000 people who watch his new vlog everyday on YouTube. 

Taylor Swift - 122,647 mentions across 30 days

How famous is Taylor Swift?  In order to be as famous as Taylor Swift you would need 122,647 mentions in 30 days. See that spike in the number of mentions for Taylor around August 30th. That was the day after the MTV Video Music Awards. Between the awards she won, her crew that she brought along with her, and Kanye West eccentric acceptance speech the amount of people talking about Taylor Swift on a daily basis shot up to 6,000 mentions per day with an estimated social reach of 155,837,304 people. 

So in conclusion you can see that in order to be a famous as Taylor Swift you need to have on average about 4,000 online mentions every single day, which will generate you on average around 40 million person audience. Pretty incredible when you think about it. When is the last time that many people mentioned you on the internet in one day?

Tim Ferriss and Naval Ravikant Teach You About Life, Startups, And The Future

If you haven't listened to Tim Ferriss and Naval Ravikant recently on the Tim Ferris Show, you should. You can listen to it here: 

Get ready to learn about life, startups, and the future. Some of my favorite quotes from the conversation were: 

"You have to live in the now in order to be happy." 

"The key to the American Dream is balancing work and non work."

"The Information Age is undoing the industrial revolutions. Company sizes are shrinking and we are trending toward more and more people working for themselves." 

"Time is more scarce then money, make sure you spend it wisely."

Tim Ferris on each episode, deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics and tricks you can use.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList, an online platform helping you find a great startup job, invest in a startup or raise money for your own startup. Naval has invested in Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Postmates, Wish, Thumbtack, and OpenDNS.

Clark Dever of Heads Up Display Talks Wearables, Travel, and Elon Musk's Solar City in Buffalo on Ambition Today

On this episode of Ambition Today, I was joined by Clark Dever. Clark is the founder of Head Up Display, a visual notification system for workers in hazardous environments. 

Today we discuss how to travel the United States of America for only $600, the future of e-sports entertainment, and how to compete with Google Glass and Oculus Rift. Also, how do you grow a startup ecosystem out of a an industrial renaissance? Buffalo N.Y. may have the answer. Elon Musk's Solar City, ecosystem driving programs like Z80 Labs and 43 North, and affordable cost of living are some of the things driving Buffalo forward as a startup city. 

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Why You Should Guest Vlog

If you are a blogger then you know one of the top ways to grow your audience is exposure on other blogs. Everyone tries to do it and it works in a very symbiotic way. Person one gains some followers from person two's audience and then vice versa person two gains some followers from person ones audience. 

This doesn't only work for blogs though and there is a new medium growing in the world right now. Thanks to the increase and accessibility to bandwidth more and more people are consuming video through the day. This has led to the rise of the daily video blog, hence forth referred to as the vlog. 

Vlogging is growing in frequency as many content creators realize the high value of having consistent content and it's ability to repeatedly bring the same users back for more.  This is opposed to creating one hit wonder viral videos. With a consistent flow of content that can be found in the same spot the audience seeks you out more often. They know they can count on new fresh content every time they visit. 

So as vlogging grows we are going to see some interesting strategies to grow these new video audiences. One of those happened recently and is a great example of collaborative guest vlogging.  Last week Casey Neistat, a vlogger residing in NYC, flew out to Ohio to hang out with Roman Atwood. Casey currently averages about 300 thousand views per daily vlog, while Roman Atwood currently averages around 1 million views. 

This is the end result below and it is pretty cool in a sort of Bill Murray Groundhog Day kind of way. Watch the same day, from two different camera angles, two different approaches to editing, and two different audiences.

The Day From Casey Neistat's Perspective: 

 

The Day From Roman Atwood's Perspective: 

Straight Outta Compton Is A Startup Movie

In the spirit of old school hip hop we are going to take it back to my high school days. I am in a garage with 5 friends and my buddy Mike has a drill gun in his hand while he is ducked inside the driver side door of my 1990's Vinyl Top Mercury Cougar. He is in the process of drilling a large hole through the engine compartment's firewall located under the front dashboard. He finishes and we push the new wires through. Shortly after we hook up those wires up to the refurbished head unit we installed in the dashboard, power up the amplifier in the trunk, and finally startup the car to hear some beats pour out of the just set up Alpine R subwoofers in the trunk. 

One of the first things you want to do when you install a new system in your car is hear how it sounds. We immediately put in a mixtape we made up consisting of some Led Zeppelin, Beastie Boys, and of course it included some N.W.A.  

The group N.W.A. has influenced me since I was younger, which is why I was excited when recently I saw the new movie Straight Outta Compton. While watching it my startup focused mind couldn't help but connect the parallels between the story and the startup world. 

One of the reasons I love early stage startups so much is the idea of the come up. Starting with just a little come something and making it so much more through hard work and creativity.  

Thats what startups do and that's what N.W.A. did. They used creativity and their existing environment to open up a new level of authenticity in music that prior to them didn't exist. 

When you look at it you can see that N.W.A. stumbled upon a market with large potential that hadn't been changed in awhile. This meant the timing was ripe for disruption, which is important. They applied a unique solution, which they assembled a credible team around based on their upbringing. The perseverance and hard work was put in by all the founding members overcoming numerous obstacles in their way. The revenue model was clear and established as viable with the potential to scale. 

If you haven't seen the movie yet, I highly recommend you check it out. Meanwhile you can watch Kendrick Lamar sit down the Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella of N.W.A. to hear first hand how they view the way they changed the game. 

Play The Long Game: Hard Work And Patience

Gary Vaynerchuk released on YouTube yesterday a new short film title "Hard Work & Patience". The film has one message. Play the long game.

Patience is under rated. If you put in the hard work, keyword hard, long enough you can get there. I am a big fan of Gary Vaynerchuk and the message he is working to get out in the world. You check out the video below. Well worth the 4 minutes to get yourself inspired and fired up to work, hard. 

Ambition Today with Guest Hans Bakan of Open Dreams

Hans Bakan

On this episode of Ambition Today, I was joined by serial entrepreneur Hans Bakan. Hans is the founder of Open Dreams, a non profit working to provide education and mentorship to young students in global emerging markets. We discuss what it takes to avoid failure in your first company and carry those lessons learned with you to make your current company more successful. Also, how you can use a company to improve the world. We discuss how Open Dreams is working to do just that in emerging global markets. 

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Announcing My New Podcast: Ambition Today

I am very excited to announce my new podcast: Ambition Today. A podcast show discussing with other entrepreneurial people what it means to achieve success, grow your startup, try to change the planet for the better, and go after your dreams, in todays modern world.  

While working with new startups in New York I come across many ambitious people who are battling impossible odds to try and manifest something they truly believe needs to exist in the world. I will begin to introduce you to some of those people. We will talk about their journey, the news, how to help you the listener, and more. The first pilot episode is up and you can find it here on Siskar.co, the home of Ambition Today. Click below to listen. 

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Teenagers, Technology, and Trends

As I write this it is Sunday night and I am getting some work done while the Teen Choice Awards are on the TV in the background. At this same time my youngest brother Alec, a teenager, is packing for college. As we grow up and older we tend to lose touch with the younger generations coming after us, without realizing it. Alec, jokingly and in little brother fashion, tends to make sure I remember this whenever I see him. Joking or not though, he is right. 

It is important we pay attention and realize what is happening across all living generations. Especially those generations that can drive a wave of change through industries. The youngest generations are still refining their tastes as they age and because of that they are incredibly powerful. Like a bull in a china shop deciding which new app to take off the shelf.

Some of those businesses in the last few years which captured the attention of teenagers and were marked as early successes by them include Yik Yak, Vine, Jott and of course Snapchat. According to a recent Pew Research study, 71% of teenagers use multiple social media services. 52% of teens are on Instagram, 41% on Snapchat, 33% on Twitter, and 24% on Vine. 

Most of these businesses have a common core. They allow teenagers to create. To create videos, messages, threads, and new content. On a day to day basis teens get the option to create something much more than other recent generations. They are the first age group to grow up completely from being a little kid while knowing what a Like, Retweet, or Fav is. And they are getting good at it. Teens are getting to be highly skilled with the ability to create. They are not happy with simply consuming others creations. 

I think that was reinforced at Sunday nights Teen Choice Awards. The final awards of the night were not for Best Picture (Oscars) or Record of the Year (Grammys). Both awards that typically require the backing of massive corporations, studios, and labels in order to win. Sundays "Finale" awards were for Best Web Star.

We are seeing that this new class of teens is a group that admires and prefers authentic creations over what the generic media, studios, and labels pushes at them. Don't worry though, advertisers always find a way to get in with were the target audiences have shifted their gaze.

For now though, Bethany Mota won best Female Web Star and Cameron Dallas won best Male Web Star. Two people who created a following of millions, using platforms that are driven almost solely by the end user. I should also add they were the most happy, passionate, and excited about winning the award. That too felt more authentic.

So, to my point, and I will be sure to check in with my younger brothers if I am right or not, but I believe that removing the filters of traditional broadcasting and reaching an audience directly is clearly more powerful and will only continue to grow in power as this class of teens becomes adults. I think these teenagers will not only increase this trend, but hammer it home. This will be the future.  The teenagers have already stated it as so. 

Quit Your Job, Grow Your Startup

Working corporate from 9-5pm and startup business from 5-2am. It is not easy but you will make progress. After all work is work and you are doing something, which is always better then nothing. But, you will be distracted. Your startup business will not have your full attention and for that it will suffer. There is an answer though. Quit your job and focus on your startup. Here are some thoughts on doing just that. 

 

1. You Need to Raise Capital 

Adeo Ressi, CEO of the Founder Institute says “It's important to quit your day job. I recently got an update from a graduate. Their company failed to raise capital and his day job was getting harder, so he had to close his startup. This comes as no surprise, since I have never heard of any startup that was able to raise professional angel money while the Founder was still employed. Furthermore, it's nearly impossible to dedicate the time and mental energy necessary to gain traction in the marketplace for your product while working for another company."

2. Quitting Your Job Is The Next Step to Success

Mohamed Kamal, Co-Founder and Head of Product for Gigturn adds, “Adeo is completely right. I bombed two investors meetings because I had a day job. Here’s the cold truth: Deciding you want to quit is usually just the first move in a long and cerebral chess match you’ll play with yourself. I’ve found that a founder's inability to quit their current day jobs had little to do with the perceived riskiness of their new startups, their financial situation, or general economic conditions. The real barrier for most of us is not external. It’s our own psychology – we:

• Overthink decisions
• Fear eventual failure
• Prioritize near-term, visible rewards over long-range success.

I found myself hesitating in front of an email send button. It was my resignation email which took three hours to write. Sending it was the ultimate mind hack."

3. There's No Such Thing as "Perfect Timing"

“My experience was similar, but with an extra ingredient... when I was about to quit my job my wife was diagnosed with cancer so it was an even harder decision. I talked to one of my advisors and he asked me, ‘When do you think it's the perfect time to start your company? There will always be a problem out there, you just have to choose if you want to do it or not.’ I then talked back to my wife and asked her if she would support me in case I didn’t raise enough money to live for a year and she agreed.

Now she has no cancer, we are about to receive new funds and the business looks promising. If I hadn't taken that decision in that apparently insane moment, none of this would be happening, so I really appreciate her faith in the project and the words from my advisor." - Sebastian Wilson, CEO at Luminux.cl.

4. Minimize Distractions to Reduce Mistakes

Tom Walpole, Co-Founder of Wembli, says “I have a meeting in about 3 hrs today to tell my employer I intend to focus on my startup full time. It’s a mind hack! In our situation, my co-founder happens to be my wife (they say co-founding is a marriage anyway right?!) - arriving at the decision that this is not only best for our business but also our family has definitely been a challenge, but at the same time a good measure of our ability to work as a team (in life and business) as well as an exercise in trust and support for each other.

I've spent the last 18 months developing, collecting user feedback and then developing again. Although that cycle never ends, it has come to a head where we have a refined enough product to start spending serious marketing money to grow it makes sense to us that we should minimize distractions which will hopefully reduce our mistakes and get more for our money.”

5. Part-Time Work May be a Better Option 

“Whilst I was in FI I quit my day job to focus on my startup. It was the right decision. In order to fund day to day living I was just going off savings but I've also been fortunate in picking up some part time consultancy gigs which is a bonus. By consulting to the right companies I've also been exposed to some other contacts including investors so that's good too. Up until the product was available (in my case) the consultancy has worked great. Now that the site is live my work is cut out for me as I hustle away the plan is to focus on Oddswop and fundraising." - Yvonne Lee, Founder of Oddswop.

6. You Fail Faster 

"The thing about having a job is that you don’t have the ability to fail fast. An unemployed founder has the entire day to meet partners and customers but an employed founder only has a few hours per day after work. And that’s assuming that people actually want to talk to you after working hours, instead of spending it with their families. 

An unemployed founder has a fixed amount of money, so that forces the founder to really focus on being cost efficient. An employed founder, however, has a steady monthly salary so naturally it’s harder to focus because that founder can literally afford to do so. That means that what takes an unemployed founder 2 weeks to learn may very well take an employed founder 2 months. Compound that and you may end up spending years of your life on something that doesn’t work." - Elisha Tan, Founder of Learnemy.

7. You have to Constantly Deliver 

According to Goran Candrlic, Co-Founder of Webiny: "We are scaling our product and team by doing consulting jobs. It's easier but it's constantly selling and delivering. So far we're alive and getting our core business up and running day by day."

8. The Devil's Advocate

Ramzi Zahra, Founder of Service List had some counter points to offer though. "I'd agree with the quit your job sooner then later theory however there are a few important matters to factor-in that are often forgotten. We can all agree that without putting the effort in a startup then it is likely that it will fail so you have a few choices: 

1. Do it slow - Work on your start-up part-time/casually whilst keeping your day job. 
2. Do it fast - Quit your day job to work on your startup.

An innate nature in humans is rush, they want results and they want it now. However to make the best decision it will depend on the grad's situation: 

a. Stage of the startup - Early stage work is different than traction, funding, etc.
b. Financial situation - Can the founder afford to live without funding for a while? 

I believe it is vital to factor the two points above to get the answer that is best for each situation. The second point is really critical. I personally quit my job to work on a startup however I soon found myself distracted with having to get some money in the door to pay rent/food/expenses. The startup was not "officially" launched yet and I was no where near raising funding. I chose to do some web development on the side to get by however it took a fair bit of time of my day. So did I really "quit" my day job? Some might argue that I didn't. In summary, Adeo's point is spot on however it cannot be used as a blanket rule and is more geared towards founders that are ready for funding."

Thank You Jon Stewart

I have no idea when the first time I watched the Daily Show was. I know that I got really into it during college. It played a massive role in helping shape my political views. There is one view that has stuck with me. You do not need to pick a side. You have the right to make your own decisions, think about each event individually, and then form your own opinion. 

To often, every political event in America has a filter placed over it before it is even presented the public. Most often, the Democratic filter is placed by MSNBC and the Republican filter by Fox News. Jon Stewart went after everyone though. If someone did something that wasn't decent they were on his radar. The filter that Jon placed on the media he delivered wasn't Republican or Democratic. It was an empathetic filter. He would put himself in the shoes of who was being affected and if it needed to be done, he would call bullshit.

It seems ironic that a fake news show on Comedy Central is the one that actually most closely resembled what we used to view as journalism in this country. There is a reason for this though. Jon understood how the media works. There are plenty of people doing great journalism in America, but their voices struggle to break through the click bait, sensationalism, advertising driven media world that has been created. What Jon figured out was how to use comedy as a narrative to elevate and communicate stories that would not have other wise broken through the tradition media filters and into the public eye. 

I truly hope that the narrative Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team created does not die with him leaving though the show. I do not think it will though. Off the TV it lives with all the viewers who tuned in every night and loved the show. On TV, Jon Oliver is already doing a truly incredible job carrying on the narrative on HBO with Last Week Tonight. Colbert will be taking over the Late Show on September 8th. Lastly, Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart on the Daily Show on September 28th. 

If you haven't checked out Trevor Noah yet, you can do so on Netflix. I am confident that Noah will do a great job. He speaks 7 languages/dialects. He grew up in South Africa where his actual life was illegal due to apartheid and growing up with a white father and African mother. I personally do not know any experience which better instill's empathy in a person then traveling the world and having experiences across cultures. Noah has these experiences and on top of it is actually pretty funny. 

So in the end Jon said: "Nothing ends, it’s just a continuation. It’s a pause in the conversation. So rather than saying goodbye or good night, I’m just going to say: I’m going to go get a drink. And I’m sure I’ll see you guys before I leave.”

I just wanted to say thank you Jon. I feel the same as Colbert. The world is a little bit better off for having you done your job. I'll see you at that drink you owe us soon.

Spotify Playlist: The Come Up, Music to Motivate

The Come Up: Music to Motivate by Kevin Siskar

is my continually growing motivational Spotify playlist with the intention of boosting entrepreneurial motivation when people need it most.

Over 7 hours of motivational Spotify music to help you grind through whatever dream you are pursuing. That means if you listen to "The Come Up" only a mere 1,282 times while working toward your goals you will have achieved that epic perfection milestone of 10,000 hours.

Why Periscope Should Embrace Landscape Video

Periscope App

Why should Periscope embrace landscape video. The answer to this question is one word. YouTube. 

The best Scopes are done by people who know how to engage their audience via video on a mobile device. We could spend months waiting for the best Periscopers to naturally emerge in the wild and eventually nail down how to get viewers to engage on the platform. Or we could enable a group of people who have spent years perfecting the skill of engaging and curating a mobile camera experience on a day to day basis.  The YouTubers. The users of a company whose very slogan is "Broadcast Yourself".

In many ways Periscope almost feels as if it should have been bought by YouTube and not Twitter. A little bit of proof that Twitter is on point with its innovation and acquisitions. 

Normal everyday people are unsure of what to say or afraid to engage with the camera when on periscope. But YouTubers know their audiences and are not shy in that experience. They know how to talk to an audience and how to engage them. We love to watch them. So here is the trick.

Periscope already allows you to save a Scope to your camera role when you are done. If Periscope embraced landscape mode it would allow YouTubers to every time use Periscope to initially record their videos while engaging with users in real time, then save that video to their camera role, and finally use that video for uploading to YouTube. Create once, while directly engaging your audience, and then easily syndicate! 

You can do this process currently but then you have a vertical video with black bars on both sides. And lets be honest, nobody wants to watch that. Vertical Video Syndrome is bad. And if you rotate your phone while on Periscope, as an attempted solution, you will have some very angry commenters coming at you pretty quickly because the comments do not rotate. A few simple additional UI changes when the screen is rotated could be a game changer. 

Content creators on all platforms do a lot of work. They have to syndicate content and manage audiences on multiple platforms. By periscope enabling this one feature it would enable YouTube content creators to more easily use one action for multiple platforms. In return, periscope would get next level high quality content creators for its platform. It's a no brainier. 

Peter Diamandis On The Power Of Thinking Exponentially

James Cameron, Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk, and others experiencing weightlessness on a Zero G flight. 

I saw Peter Diamandis speak recently at the 2015 Founder Showcase.  In case you didn't know Peter started the X Prize, has backed Tesla, and created the Singularity University to name a few achievements. He starts his talk with the foundation that "an entrepreneur today can touch the lives of a billion people". Peter talks about how in just 30 doublings of something you can reach the number billion. 

"If you want to become a billionaire then help a billion people" - Peter Diamandis

The power of thinking exponentially and not linear has the ability to unlock a whole new world of technology and science. Peter shows this by tracking the success trajectories of companies like Kodak to Instagram across various decades. If we look at how that trajectory predicts the future ahead of us we are in for some unfathomable achievements in the world. Somebody has to start these dreams and companies. It might as well be you. So take some time and learn how to think exponentially. Watch this exclusive video below and don't forget to also subscribe to my Youtube Channel here:

Make It Count

This is a brief post but I still feel it is worth sharing. I am a big fan of Casey Neistat and all things motivational. Both of which are in this video. Take a few minutes and watch the "Make It Count" video Casey produced for Nike below. Surprisingly you can see a lot of the world when you blow an entire marketing budget in 10 days. And you have to love the "Do More" tattoo.

How To Create An Industry: Gabe Zichermann

Gabe Zichermann

Many people are concerned with figuring out how to create a successful company. To Gabe Zichermann however, he took a look back at his career and realized that while in the process of creating successful companies he had also simultaneously been at the epicenter of a few brand new industries. 

At the 2015 Founder Showcase Gabe Zichermann discusses "How To Found An Industry".  Watch my exclusive video below: