Optimize for time before money. The most important question is, "How do I want to spend my days?" Make as few choices as possible that violate your answer.

Build assets that compound. Eliminate problems, responsibilities, and obligations that compound. Your business should feel easier to sustain each year.

Be patient. Think longer-term than anyone else in your industry. Be impatient. Don't let a day pass without doing something that contributes to your long-term vision.

“…fall in love with the business model, not the business”. Well said! empireflippers.com/the-asset-flyw… via Justin Cooke

This is still one of my favourite internet moments

Saw this ad in Singapore today 😆

The status game

The simple but difficult marketing flip seths.blog/2021/10/the-si…

10 years ago I was an English teacher earning $1,000/mo. Since then I've started two companies, exited one, and taken the second one public on NASDAQ. Here's what I've learned the hard way in my 10 year journey, so you don't have to.

Here's the secret that newsletter founders DON'T want you to know about building a massive newsletter business… It’s all about ad arbitrage. 🤫 Here’s how it works:

In 2018 I was working 10 hrs/day on my coffee blog & making $10k per month By 2020 I was working just 5 hrs per week on that same blog & making $30-$50k/mo Here are the 3 big lessons that made this shift possible It begins in a lonely hotel room in Lebanon.. ⬇️

🧨 Don't delegate tasks; delegate responsibilities Instead of giving someone the SOP; empower them to create the SOP. Don't train your team to come to you when they need an answer; train them to find the answer. I made this shift. 6 months later it looked like this..

3 important lessons for growing a lifestyle biz: 1/ More hard work isn't always the answer (network) 2/ Spend more time acting as a "CEO" if you want to grow 3/ Learn to delegate effectively (because its a superpower) And hey, before you bounce..

Good morning, AI-based tools will be a massive opportunity for calm companies, but a dud for VC. Here's my thesis:

Been working on a web scraper using AI Simply enter the URL and the elements you'd like, and the scraper takes care of the rest! Who'd like to demo it?

Taking a $12M company public is hard. But it's the #1 thing we did for the business. Here's how we took a tiny company public:

Its over! Week 8 of my niche newsletter experiment: • 📈3k+ subs for $0.52c/sub (overall) • ♠A look at my winning ads (please, steal them) • 🔥The 4 biggest lessons I learned about building a niche newsletter (which I spent $4,423 to learn) 👇🏽Full update in link below

Disappear for 6 months in a low-cost paradise. Focus on your health: diet, exercise & meditation. Start a newsletter in a high-value niche. Add 100+ subscribers/day. Emerge with 20k subscribers. 20k subs = $12k/month revenue. Sell newsletter for $150k+.

In March the Financial Times released their list of 500 high-growth Asia-Pacific companies for 2023. I went through all 500 to find interesting online success stories with verified revenue numbers 💰. I very rarely write Twitter threads so really hope you like this one 👇

Update: 0 to 820K/mo SEO traffic with AI content. - Traffic after 24 hours - 300K/mo after 6 months - 750K/mo after 12 months - 820K/mo after 16 months - 10K top 3 keywords in Google Here's not only how we did it 16 months ago... But how to do it even better: