Investment advice from Warren Buffett

By Trajan King

In Debt, Financial independence, Investing

8 Min read

Warren Buffett is the world’s most famous investor. He bought his first stock when he was just 11 years old and has been accumulating wealth ever since and is worth, well, who cares. He’s worth a lot of money. Enough to consistently put him in the top 5 wealthiest people in the world. It’s worth listening to investment advice from Warren Buffett. He’s famous for good...

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Taking Criticism Happily

By Trajan King

In Founding, Fundamentals, Marketing

5 Min read

As your company, website and personal wealth grows, you'll start to get more and more feedback.  Some of it solicited (after all, you can use feedback to your advantage to learn and grow), but most of it will just come in without asking. So what do I mean by taking criticism happily?

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Why sleep is so important for high performance

By Trajan King

In Fitness, Habits & Efficiency, Healthspan

9 Min read

This year for lent my wife and I decided to wake up an hour earlier to see the sunrise. Every day for 40 days. We had been missing the beautiful tropical sunrise and wanted to take advantage of living by the sea in Puerto Rico. If we were getting up an hour earlier that would mean we should go to bed an hour early. For us, that’s 10 pm. That’s a pretty early bedtime unless...

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Should you take investor money?

By Trajan King

In Debt, Founding, Investing

10 Min read

As entrepreneurs who are trying to grow our companies, it’s an important question. One that we’ll be constantly faced with: should you seek or take investor money? Whether you’re just starting or you’ve been around a while and want to grow faster or capture another market, it’s a tough decision to make. It’s not an easy decision because there are considerable...

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Don’t Make It Difficult for People to Give You Their Money

By Trajan King

In Founding, Fundamentals, Marketing

5 Min read

This episode is a rant! (See video below.) In the real world or online, I can't stand it when companies make it tough for me to give them my money!  They're in business to make money, but far too many companies make customers jump through so many hoops to buy something that people give up.  This is called "shopping cart abandonment."

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