Beyond the Rhetoric

To many people, video games are little more than a source of distraction and corruption for teenage boys. I beg to differ. When utilized appropriately, video games can be fantastic learning tools, even if only in a tangential sort of way. If real time strategy games teach resource management and first person shooters improve hand-eye [...]

The world of commerce is based on the relatively simple principle of buying and selling things. I want to buy an apple, for example. In order for that to happen, the orchard owner has to pick the apple off the tree. He then sells that apple to a distributor who, in turn, sells it to [...]

Last week, I mentioned I had a strategy of using whole life insurance as leverage. This strategy is the reason that every multi-millionaire and billionaire has purchased loads of whole life insurance over the course of their careers. It’s a strategy that’s simple to understand and accessible to every entrepreneur. It’s called the “corporate asset [...]

There are all sorts of different payment schemes for freelance writers. In general, I charge on a per-article or per-project basis after we’ve sorted out some of the basic details like estimated word count and the amount of research required. This is advantageous for a number of reasons, but most importantly, it provides a level [...]

Most entrepreneurs focus on how they can grow their businesses and maximize their profits. Those things are important, to be sure, but you also have to think about how you’re going to eventually depart from the business. For some companies, the goal may be to get acquired by a bigger company. That happened with YouTube [...]