Entrepreneurship has been a passion for me since my formative years. I sold candy to friends in grade school to make a bit of cash. I made a website about SimCity 2000 in middle school that somehow earned $25.00 per month from ads. In college, I started a personal finance blog that quickly became an […]
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It’s been a few months since I last sent out a monthly update, but here’s what’s been going on that you might find interesting. – Earlier this year, I made a significant pivot to focus less on side projects and more on my core business (MarketBeat). I decided to stop publishing new books for the […]
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Toward the end of last year, I was seriously considering selling MarketBeat and moving on to my next project. The company did not see much growth in 2016 and I thought I had grown the business as large as I could with my current skill set. The work had become mundane and I just wasn’t […]
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I have been involved in the Sioux Falls entrepreneurial ecosystem for about four years now. During that time, I’ve seen many people get interested in entrepreneurship, make plans to start a company and give up when their business isn’t an immediate hit or they realize how much work it really is to start a company. […]
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For the last several years, I’ve tried to make a name for myself in the internet business education space in the same vein that Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, Jaime Tardy and many others have. The idea is that by branding oneself as an expert in the space, one can build an audience, sell digital […]
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Health and fitness is not a subject that I thought I would ever find myself writing about. I’ve never enjoyed strenuous exercise and have had an unhealthy appetite for soda, fast food and candy for as long as I can remember. I’ve been at least twenty-five pounds overweight since I graduated college. I had the […]
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Sioux Falls, SD, August 17, 2017 – Inc. Magazine has ranked MarketBeat No. 1,620 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the United States. MarketBeat was named as the 4th fastest-growing company in the state of South Dakota, based on its three-year revenue growth of 243%. The […]
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For every dollar that I have available to invest in start-up businesses, there are at least twenty people that would happily take that dollar and promise me big returns in the future. Since the vast majority of start-up businesses fail, I have the overwhelming task of determining which entrepreneurs that want my money will be […]
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A few weeks back, I wrote an important article focusing on the four things that the city of Sioux Falls will need if it is going to be a community that fosters new startup businesses that attract outside capital and create high-paying jobs. Since then, I have discussed capital availability, building community, and storytelling as […]
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A few weeks ago, I published an important post highlighting four things that the city of Sioux Falls will need if it’s going to become a city that fosters new startup businesses that create high-paying jobs and attract outside capital. Since then, I’ve dived a bit deeper into the topics of making capital available to […]
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