In recent weeks, more and more individuals have been emailing us asking for investments for their ideas and ventures. The emails typically ask us if we are interested in simply investing without any hint as to the industry, a website, or even some sort of indication as to who we are speaking to. While we don’t ask people to write…
Motivation
The Ripple Effects of Entrepreneurship
As you all know, Secret Entourage believes in creating more entrepreneurs, and not business owners. While they share similarities, they also share tremendous differences. One of those very noticeable differences is what we call the ripple effect of entrepreneurship. This particular way of thinking can be applied in order to succeed but can also be applied when considering the personal…
Why Nice Guys Finish Last in Business
I am not a nice guy and never really been one. To be perfectly honest, most people who don’t know me would say I am a total asshole. Not that it has merit but that’s what they perceive and holds true to a degree. I like being this way, and it has gotten me very far in life to not…
The 1 Thing That Differentiates Successful People From The Rest
We have been reading quite a bit out there on habits of successful people, how successful people think differently, or even habits of highly productive people. Many articles with great info but all of them rambling on with what we obviously already know. All of them point to one thing, yet never really say it…
Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness – Freedom Does
I recently visited the local Starbucks I go to every single day and my usual barista was making my coffee when another barista that sometimes serves me showed up to hang out at work on her day off. After saying hello, I asked her why she was at work on her day off, rather than doing something more productive. She…
Why You’ll Never Join The 1%
There has been a lot of media buzz about the growing uneven distribution of wealth in the world. While this was a growing issue in the United States for years, it is now become even more evident worldwide especially in Europe and Asia but the question is why? Why is it so difficult for the 99% to drift towards the…
True Education is All Around Us
You always hear us talk about it in our academy and the reality is that, despite the advanced nature of some of today’ school curriculum, there is still no substitute for real world experience/education. While school teaches us common skill sets to understand the basic working principles of a field, they don’t really teach us the skills to succeed…