I spent the last three days in New York City at TechCrunch Disrupt with two KBJ Capital portfolio companies: Yumm.com and APPEK Mobile Apps. Both Yumm and APPEK absolutely crushed TechCrunch Disrupt! APPEK Mobile Apps From the time Adam Ceresko and Andrew Herman (Cofounders of APPEK) hit the Start-up Alley floor on Monday until the [...]
This picture is of Obinna Ekezie, Former NBA Player and current CEO of Nigerian Travel Company Wakanow.com Last year I spoke at an investor conference in New York City which included 400 of the world’s most successful internet entrepreneurs – while I had the opportunity to meet some incredibly smart and talented people one guy [...]
Yesterday was one of the highlights of my professional career as eBay announced the acquisition of GSI Commerce, the parent company of Pepperjam, which I founded in 1999 (and sold to GSI in 2009). Pepperjam was an offshoot of a gourmet food company my brother Rick and I founded in 1999 called Grandma Jones’ Originals, [...]
I’m happy to announce that I’ve invested $50,000 (through my investment fund KBJ Capital) in B2B mobile app developer APPEK Mobile Apps! As a condition of the investment I will join APPEK as a strategic advisor and member of the APPEK board of advisors. After meeting with dozens of mobile app start-up technology companies from [...]
I’m beyond excited to share that my book “Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint to Effective Internet Marketing” is now available digitally on the Amazon Kindle! Click here to download through Amazon. Until now the book has only been available in major bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders across North America and Europe….so I [...]
My good friend Chris Hedgecock approached me about a year ago with an idea to build a recipe site called Yumm.com that would rival leaders AllRecipes.com and the Food Network. Unlike those other recipe sites that exist within a closed ecosystem…..Yumm.com aggregates the recipe Web by being a bookmarking repository of all of your favorite [...]
I’ve included a video below on some considerations as you build your business, including who you should consider selling to (or not), whether (or not) to raise venture capital money, and how I believe you can get your company off the ground for $10 bucks and a decent amount of sweat equity…. Since the video [...]
I think about what’s possible both personally and professionally all the time and for what’s it’s worth I sincerely believe there are few limits to experiencing and accomplishing just about anything you want. For “most people” there are perceived limitations in what is and isn’t possible. However, deep down in your belly I know you [...]
After receiving multiple different requests I’ve decided to share the presentation I delivered last week at PubCon Las Vegas 2010 using slideshare. Keep in mind that reading this PowerPoint doesn’t provide you with the true scope of my presentation, but it does provide some high level conclusions I draw about the impact of Google Instant [...]
It is a fact, most people don’t take action because of fear. Fear of failure. Fear of hard work. Fear of discouragement. Fear of commitment. Fear of ability. Fear, fear, fear. The problem with allowing fear to rule your decision making is that you won’t take chances and without taking chances you’ll likely live a [...]
