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Resources to help you grow.

Building and investing in businesses comes with challenges, risks, and hard-won lessons. We believe sharing real-world experience helps others avoid costly mistakes and make better decisions.

Every guide below is free to download. Take what is useful, and put it to work.

Why we share this

Lessons earned the hard way, shared on purpose.

Our founder has spent years building and investing in companies, and along the way has written books, articles, and training materials drawn from both the wins and the mistakes.

We share these so you can learn from that experience instead of paying for the same lessons yourself.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers

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The guides

Four guides, free to download.

Practical, plain-spoken guides for the people building companies and the people backing them. Each one is a PDF you can read today.

For founders and operators

PDF Guide

Getting What You Want

Do you know what you want out of life, and how to get it? We have developed a system to help you define what you want and then put a process in place to help you get it.

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PDF Guide

The $355 Startup

A short book on getting your business started. The myth is that without $50,000 you should not bother. This walks through how to launch and look like a professional operation for only a few hundred dollars.

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PDF Guide

The Basics of Funding Your Early Stage Business

Walking the entrepreneurial path can be incredibly rewarding. This covers the fundamentals of raising money for an early stage company.

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For investors

PDF Guide

The Basics of Angel Investing

Angel investing is the practice of investing in early stage companies. It offers the chance for strong financial returns and a part in building and growing great companies. This covers the basics.

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