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Start. scale. exit. take some money off the table. repeat..
My philosophy has been called “Laddering Up Wealth.”
My whole entrepreneurship process is summed up in my book title: Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. But there’s actually an invisible step in my process between “Exit” and “Repeat.” When I look back at what’s brought me security, it’s this invisible step. My process looks more like:
I learned this the hard way when the NASDAQ index crashed in 2000. It killed the exit I was working on, and lost most of my wealth because it had been tied up in the company’s stock.
Since then, my philosophy has been called “Laddering Up Wealth.” After I exit, I take money off the table before I go off to Repeat. For those who envision a life of serial entrepreneurship, taking money off the table from a successful exit should be a prerequisite for repeating success in your next venture—or two.
So let’s talk about the two key advantages of taking some money off the table versus putting all your wealth into your next venture:
Let’s be honest—there’s always a bit of a gamble in any venture, no matter how surefire it seems. So, in gambling terms, you need to take some chips off the table every so often for security. Take a portion of your wealth from your prior exit and invest it in very conservative, safe instruments where it can earn interest.
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The first thing I did after my second big exit was to max out my kids’ college savings fund. There was a deep satisfaction in knowing that even if every other business crashed and burned, my kids would have a debt-free education. Likewise, consider setting money aside for your personal home, second home, and/or stocks and bonds.
The point is: don’t put all your eggs in one basket!
In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, setting off a war that brought the frontlines within a stone’s throw of the headquarters for one of my startups. Thankfully, I had already sold some of my stock to “take some money off the table.” Meanwhile, a couple of my business partners invested most of their wealth in the company and took a significant hit.
Pretty much every disaster you can imagine hit one of my businesses in 2022—not just war, but the crypto crash, a hurricane, and even a family health crisis. Life is going to throw you (and your business) some curveballs. The only way to protect yourself from such change is to be proactive.
When you’re a first-time entrepreneur, you probably can’t do without some kind of salary. But if you have made a previous exit, then one of the smartest moves you can make with your next venture is to take no salary—at least for a while.
In prior fundraising rounds, I’ve put myself on the line by investing in a portion of the offering. But I’ve also agreed to take zero salary until the company starts generating consistent revenues and earnings. This accomplishes two things:
First, it reduces your personal out-of-pocket to Uncle Sam.
Second, it sends a strong signal to investors about your commitment to making the company profitable.
Now, don’t get me wrong—it’s not a charity. When a company starts to perform, you should start drawing a salary. But the last thing you want to do is take a salary and have to pay taxes on it while the company is still losing money. Having the freedom to defer your salary is an easy way to speed up the process of becoming profitable.
It’s also beneficial when preparing for the next exit. When we start considering exiting, we make any cuts we can to make the company more profitable and, therefore, more appealing to a buyer. That includes cutting my own salary or even stepping out of the company altogether.
“Laddering up” by taking money off the table is not giving up. Your identity should never be based on one company or a job title. If you envision a life of serial entrepreneurship, you have to keep this one thing in focus:
Your trade is entrepreneurship. Period.
Learn more about this strategy and other aspects of my process in my book Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. Or join us every week at Startup Club on Clubhouse.
Vice President Kamala Harris used a New Hampshire campaign stop to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses, a plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she steps on stage to address a crowd, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, during a campaign stop, in North Hampton, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign stop at the Throwback Brewery, in North Hampton, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris walks with co-owners of Port City Pretzels, Eileen Marousek, center, and her mother, Suzanne Foley, as she campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks with co-owners of Port City Pretzels, Eileen Marousek, left, as her mother, Suzanne Foley watches as she campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign stop at the Throwback Brewery, in North Hampton, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Wednesday to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses , a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes.
Describing small businesses as “an essential foundation to our entire economy,” Harris said she wants to expand from $5,000 to $50,000 tax incentives for startup expenses, with the goal of eventually spurring 25 million new small business applications over four years.
The speech was part of Harris’ effort to strengthen her economic credentials with only two months until the end of the election.
“You’re not only leaders in business. You’re civic leaders,” Harris said. She added, “You are part of the glue and the fabric that holds communities together.”
The vice president spoke at the Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, outside Portsmouth, and met with co-founders Annette Lee and Nicole Carrier. Their brewery got support to open its current location through a small business credit and installed solar panels using federal programs championed by the Biden administration.
After that, Harris visited another women-owned small business, Port City Pretzels, which was founded in 2015 and had expanded out of its original, 500-foot facility into a larger location. One of the co-owners, Suzanne Foley, led Harris around brown boxes bearing the company’s logo, some stacked head-high and waiting to be shipped to customers around the country.
“Thank you for visiting our little company,” said Foley, who beamed and chatted with Harris as the pair walked around the facility. At one point, the vice president asked of the pretzels “Is it a family recipe?” When the answer came back yes, she offered, “Is it a secret family recipe?” Foley responded, “It’s not really, no.”
Meanwhile, the campaign of Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican nominee, dismissed Harris’ plan, noting that the vice president has promised to eliminate a package of tax cuts approved during his administration that are set to expire next year. Trump’s campaign said those cuts “allowed business owners to deduct up to 20% of qualified business income,” reduced taxes on new equipment purchases and took steps to bolster small businesses as compared to larger ones.
Before talking about her small business plan, Harris addressed Wednesday’s school shooting in Georgia.
“It’s just outrageous that every day, in our country, in the United States of America, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive.”
She added: “We’ve got to stop it. It doesn’t have to be this way.”
Harris’ New Hampshire trip is a rare deviation for a candidate who is spending most of her time in Midwest and Sun Belt states with pivotal roles in November’s election .
Since President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Harris , the vice president has focused on Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which have been the centerpiece of successful Democratic campaigns. She also has frequently visited Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, all of which Biden narrowly won in 2020, and North Carolina, which she hopes to flip from Trump .
Wednesday’s stop came after Harris marked Labor Day with rallies in Detroit and Pittsburgh and before she was making her 10th visit to Pennsylvania of the year by heading back to Pittsburgh on Thursday.
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Trump has called for lowering the corporate tax rate to 15% — a break with Biden, who in his budget proposal in March suggested setting the corporate tax rate at 28%. Harris has released relatively few major policy proposals in the roughly six weeks since taking over the top of the Democratic ticket, but has not suggested she’s planning to deviate greatly from Biden on tax policy.
Still, Harris also endorsed during her Wisconsin speech a tax of 28% on long-term capital gains for households with an annual income of $1 million or more. That marks a key difference with Biden — who included a 39.6% rate in his proposed budget, while still calling for a higher rate.
“We will tax capital gains at a rate that rewards investment in America’s innovators,” the vice president said.
The plans Harris presented has lots that the business community would like. But they also contrast with another proposal Harris unveiled last month, where she promised to help fight inflation by working to combat “price gouging” from food producers that she suggests have driven grocery store prices up unnecessarily.
Harris has built her campaign around calls to grow and strengthen the nation’s middle class — and suggested that rich Americans and large corporations should pay higher taxes. She repeated that message Wednesday, saying “billionaires and big corporations must pay their fair share in taxes.”
“It’s just not right that those who can most afford it are often paying a lower tax rate than our teachers and our nurses and our firefighters,” she told the New Hampshire crowd.
Both nominees are using the week before their debate to sharpen their economic messages about who could do more for the middle class. Trump will address the Economic Club of New York on Thursday. They square off on the debate stage next week in Philadelphia.
Biden, who built his campaign around promoting the middle class, won New Hampshire by 7 percentage points in 2020, but Trump came much closer to winning it against Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Harris campaign says it has 17 field offices operating in coordination with the state Democratic party across New Hampshire, compared to one for Trump’s campaign.
Some of the state’s Democrats were angry that Biden directed the Democratic National Committee to make South Carolina the first state to vote in the party’s presidential primary this year — displacing Iowa’s caucus and a first-in-the-nation primary New Hampshire held for more than a century.
Despite that, New Hampshire pressed ahead with an unsanctioned primary. Though Biden didn’t campaign in it, or appear on the ballot, he still easily won via a write-in drive .
Trump has seized on the primary calendar change, posting on his social media account that Harris “sees there are problems for her campaign in New Hampshire because of the fact that they disrespected it in their primary and never showed up.”
“Additionally, the cost of living in New Hampshire is through the roof, their energy bills are some of highest in the country, and their housing market is the most unaffordable in history,” the former president wrote.
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This is because marketing is much bigger than creating viral social media posts , buzzy advertising campaigns, and flashy websites . In the end those amount to expensive entertainment that might get a lot of attention but likely not so many sales.
We need to think about marketing as a total strategy for engaging target audiences , nurturing their decision journeys toward a trial, and delivering personalized experiences and continuous value to secure loyalty. Marketing is about building a brand around all of these elements — not just creating a lot of content and campaigns.
Success begins with using market and consumer data to ensure your messaging and experiences capture attention and trigger engagement. A well-thought-out plan doesn't just grab first-time users — it also sets the foundation to maintain a strong competitive market position.
These are the cornerstones of a marketing plan that brings sustainable success, which I delve into in my new book, Market Your Business – Your DIY Guide to Marketing , available now.
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As ai evolves, forrester research analysts believe agentic ai and automating complex business processes will be the next step forward for businesses..
Artificial intelligence will be playing an even bigger role in enterprise business processes sooner rather than later. The evolution of agentic AI, or AI agents acting on goals and decisions, will take business process automation to the next level.
That's according to analysts speaking during the Forrester Research Technology and Innovation Summit in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday. Akin to self-driving cars that have been slowly modified to transition driving from humans to machinery, agentic AI could eventually automate multiple steps within complex processes currently performed by humans, such as receiving and processing insurance claims.
"There are dozens of steps in that process. Some of them are automated; some of them are not," Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri said during a panel session at the summit. "There's a claims processing person who's in charge of that claims and that process. Agentic AI is where AI replaces that person and becomes in charge of that process. It's full-on automation of that process, and it's not far-fetched at all for tens of thousands of business processes."
While agentic AI isn't quite where it needs to be yet , Gualtieri said it's "the next thing."
Agentic AI, especially in the early days of development, will mean putting whole business processes on automatic pilot but should also include having someone monitor the AI system, Gualtieri said. He noted that self-driving cars are an apt comparison to agentic AI. While self-driving cars are on the road, they aren't left unmonitored.
"Agentic is about automating the entire process," Gualtieri said. "To do that, you have to still automate the steps in the process."
To make agentic AI work, Gualtieri said it's not just about automating and orchestrating a business process. Agentic AI will require collaboration proficiency, either systems working with people in different departments or with other AI models.
While business process automation is not new, it can be a complex undertaking to include rules and codes within automated process descriptions. Forrester Research analyst Brian Hopkins said more sophisticated neural networks are enabling technology like agentic AI to break down complicated tasks, use different tools to accomplish those tasks and communicate with other AI models.
It's full-on automation of that process, and it's not far-fetched at all for tens of thousands of business processes. Mike Gualtieri Analyst, Forrester Research
"To me, it's about the tools," Hopkins said during the panel discussion with Gualtieri. "These agents can use tools like we humans at one point learned to use tools, and that gave us a huge step in our ability to advance. The same thing is happening here."
For enterprises to automate processes using agentic AI, it will require a team beyond just AI experts, Gualtieri said. It will involve company leaders who understand different facets of business operations as a whole and change management.
Safety planning will also be crucial for agentic AI, Gualtieri said. Safety guardrails could include businesses training their own AI models with their own data. He said it could also involve creating a prescribed process for agentic AI, outlining what it can and cannot do.
"The first aspect of that is not just having some AI model spitting out [information] that has no transparency but having an agentic AI model that will follow a prescribed process you've designed," Gualtieri said.
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