Bill Gates recently posted his favorite books of 2016 on his personal blog. “String Theory,” by David Foster Wallace “Shoe Dog,” by Phil Knight “The Myth of the Strong Leader,” by Archie Brown “The Gene: An Intimate History,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee “The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future,” by Gretchen Bakke […]
Shortly after Twitter announced it was killing off Vine last month, Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll announced their next great startup, Hype. What is it? Hype is a live-streaming video app currently available for the iOS platform. It’s live streaming with a lot more bells and whistles than you’ve seen on the likes […]
Many investors frown upon startups that only have one founder. This makes a lot of sense because it is extreeeemely challenging to start a company and even more stressful when you don’t have a co-founder to shoulder some of the pressure. I was the sole proprietor of a frozen yogurt shop for a few years […]
First let me preface this by saying I’m not rich, so take this advice with a grain of salt. I do pretty well for myself and since I’ve been following these principles I’ve established a good trajectory toward one day joining that 1% club I’ve been hearing about. In my life I’ve had the privilege […]
Well here’s an interesting “Did You Know” for ya… Facebook recently surpassed the behemoths Disney and Comcast in ad revenue. During the first 9 months of 2016 Zuck and gang brought in $9.1 billion in North America. For the same period Comcast and Disney generated $7.6 billion and $6.7 billion respectively. Digital media’s highly targeted […]
What if I were to tell you that you could be a venture capitalist too. Is that something you would be interested in? Venture capitalism is not just for the wealthy anymore. In May, President Obama passed a rule, part of the 2012 JOBS Act, that allows regular folks like you and I to invest […]
Are you on track for retirement? Here’s a few rules of thumb courtesy of the good folks over at Fidelity Investments. Wanna hear it? Well here it goes: At age 35, you should have saved an amount equal to your annual salary. At age 45, you should have saved three times your annual salary. At […]
What’s the best way to eat an elephant? One bite at a time of course. In other words when faced with a huge task it’s best to break it down into smaller parts. This makes the challenge less daunting and more manageable. Set Goals Ask yourself: What is my overall goal? What do I […]
YouTube has hired Lyor Cohen as their first “Global Head of Music”. When you think about it, the tech companies are becoming the new record labels, sooo this makes perfect sense. I mean Jay Z’s Tidal exclusively distributed Kanye’s “Life of Pablo” for a while. Apple has an association with Dr. Dre, cutting exclusive deals with […]
Prior to our workout (hence the reference to running stairs in the video) I had the legendary sports agent and investor David Falk share a few gems with the MogulGrind community. David is best known for being Michael Jordan’s agent. He also negotiated professional sports’ first $100m contract for Alonzo Mourning, and built one of […]
In the startup world you often see headlines of company X raising a gazillion dollars in a Series A, B or C round of funding. What does this actually mean? Like most people on the outside looking in all I really knew was the companies were receiving funds in order to continue growing their businesses. […]
Looks like we have a new player in the venture capital business (See what I did there? Basketball… Kobe… Player? Ok moving on). This is good news for Moguls on the Grind changing the world through entrepreneurship. Kobe has partnered with former CEO of Web.com, Jeff Stibel to create Bryant Stibel. The $100 million fund […]
Forerunner Ventures is a women only investment firm killing it in the male dominated venture capital industry. Let’s take a closer look at this company that’s flown under so many people’s radar. Forerunner Ventures was founded in 2003 by Kirsten Green. The company specializes in e-commerce investments. They’re philosophy revolves around capitalizing on the growing […]
5 Years ago Ashton Kutcher and friend Guy Oseary invested $500k in a little known company called Uber. That investment is worth a cool $50 million today. Not bad for the “Dude, Where’s My Car” actor. Ashton and Guy, along with a 3rd investor formed a company called A-Grade Investments. Before long they had […]