Matt Wilson: When you started Hurley you were 26. Can you tell us a story from the early days living the surf entrepreneur lifestyle? Joe K: 1980, 26 years old, happily married with Cindy and our young son Joel, teaching Junior High 4 years, waiting tables, exporting surfboards to Japan and managing Hurley Surfboards. And, I [...]
Category Archives: Startup Advice
The Best Apps to Boost Your Productivity
We have come to that age when most of us wish to have 50 hours a day, because there is so much to do with so little a time. Everyone is stuck in between managing work and other aspects of life. Here comes the involvement of technology, particularly smart phones and gadgets. There are some [...]
Want “Eureka!” Moments? Napping and Relaxing May be the Answer
There’s a reason inspiration often strikes in the shower or on your drive to work: “Eureka!” moments happen when your mind is relaxed. Special relativity occurred to Albert Einstein while riding a streetcar home one day. Philo Farnsworth realized how an electrical television could work when he was plowing a potato field. These moments of [...]
Identifying Pain is the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How
This article initially appeared on Inc. If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. Click here. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA.…
19 Tips for a Healthier Mind, Body and Start-up
You’ve committed to making your new venture work. You are determined to fund the project, the hype is building and you are starting to see your once crazy business idea as a viable opportunity. After 6 months, the endless amount of hours are probably starting to wear on you, and the last time you sat [...]
How to Handle Difficult Customers as a Business Owner
“You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.” Robert Kiyosaki, Rich [...]
3 Important Factors For Generating Targeted Leads
Do you want to drive quality leads and increase sales? So many young entrepreneurs are simply chasing shadows. They invest hours into marketing activities that doesn’t have a strong impact on their business. I want you to avoid that. You need to focus on the three important factors for generating leads and making money. Because [...]
Why You Should Give Before You Get
I have a motto in business and life, “give before you get.” It’s a philosophy, really. And it applies to business relationships & networking as much as it does to remuneration in the workplace. It seems we live in an…
Should You Start College or Startup: Perspectives from Two CEOs
The debate about whether hopeful entrepreneurs should start college or startup has been alive and well for many years. There are countless examples of successful entrepreneurs – Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few – who never completed a college degree but those stories are admittedly few and far between. The [...]
5 Ways to Define Your Startup Message Strategy
Political strategists can spend days and weeks thinking, talking and testing a message strategy. They know every word counts. The lessons startups can learn from politics is a subject I have expanded on previously, and made reference to in a book I am launching in the coming months, The New Goldrush. So why is it [...]
