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How You Should Feel When Someone Copies You
On Quora someone asked: How should I feel when people copy my style, vocabulary, tone of voice, ideas, habits, tastes in music and food, or any other aspect of my existence? This was my response: I have a regular personality and a business personality. I compiled my business personality based off of the industry leaders that … Read more
How I Would Evaluate a Potential Technical Co-Founder
Someone on Quora asked: How should I evaluate a potential technical co-founder? I’m in the surprising and apparently unusual position of interviewing technical co-founders for my startup. I am a non technical founder. I have several highly qualified people who have expressed interest and who appear, via job background and my experience with them, to … Read more
How to Become More Emotionally Detached
It’s simple. Fail many times. Over and over. Have high expectations and be crushed. After a while, you will no longer have any type of negative emotion, after you go through it all. What I did was I stopped caring about what people thought of me or what I did. When I saw others peoples … Read more
How People Who Didn’t Do Well in School End Up Becoming Rich
My friend did horrible in school. Hell, his GPA (Grade Point Average) and BAC (Blood Alcohol Content Level) were about the same, a solid 1.0. He had every odd job possible, from making sandwiches at Togos to being a lifeguard. Then he found what he wanted to do. He spent ten years, from age 17, … Read more
The 4 Best Things to Do to Get What You Want in Life
Be humble, hungry, and honest. Show that you are genuine, sincere, and appreciative. Work relentlessly towards your goals. Clearly communicate your intentions. — Originally posted on Quora. Leonard Kim is Managing Partner at InfluenceTree. At InfluenceTree, Leonard and his team teach you how to build your (personal or business) brand, get featured in publications and … Read more
The Night That Seemed like a Good Idea at First, But I Now Regret
Last Friday, I was overwhelmed from life. It was my first week of school and I was juggling full time work, being a full time student, my time on Quora, and setting up the infrastructure for a business. I went from doing 60 hour weeks to committing myself to around 90-100 hours a week of … Read more
Strategies to Compete with a Mature Business
On Quora I was asked: What are some strategies to compete with a mature but inferior product with a strong customer base? Hypothetical situation: You have a neighborhood with a local coffee shop. The coffee shop has been there for years and has happy customers and makes good revenue. They have tuned their business well for … Read more
Why I Get Up Each Day and Face the World
What motivates me to get up each day and face the world? Motivate? I need motivation to get out of bed? The only reason I wake up is because I have become accustomed to a routine. A routine to wake up at 6:40am. To get out of my home by 6:50am. To walk half a … Read more
How I Wrote a Book and Launched It in Sixty Days
I just wrote the book The Etiquette of Social Media: How to Connect and Respond to Others in the World of Social Media What is the book about? What was the timeline behind the book? June 27, 2014 at 11:30pm. I hit a bottle neck in my career. I ask James Altucher for advice with … Read more
Three Marketing Lessons We Can Learn from a Giant Yellow Duck
I just finished writing a book titled, The Etiquette of Social Media: How to Connect and Respond to Others in the World of Social Media (To find out more, read more below). To celebrate the completion of the book, on Thursday, August the 21st, I went to the Port of Los Angeles, located in San Pedro to … Read more