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Survive Crisis: 5 lessons from Gunfights | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
“I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't Continue Reading
Why Putting Others First Ensures Your Own Success | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
Stop taking credit for what you’ve not done. More critically, stop taking credit for what you didn’t think of or didn’t think through in detail. It’s Continue Reading
Stop, Shut Up and Sit Down | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
2003, Far East Asian nation, the mere formality of a meeting. Little more than a press event really, the final meeting between Minister of Finance Continue Reading
Pick Your Fights, Carefully | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
Years ago, my then mentor and lead investor, told me calmly, succinctly. “You don’t know what you don’t know.” This a week into my discussing, Continue Reading
You’re Not Going to Like This | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
You’re not as valuable as you think you are. Read that correctly. To be fair though, no one is. Evolution optimized us for the propagation of Continue Reading
The Special Forces ODA as a Startup Team
As an investor in startup companies, there is always a difficult balance to be maintained, with respect to what are decisions management must make Continue Reading
So You’re an “Operator”: How Exactly Does That Benefit My Investment?
This article first appeared in The Havok Journal on September 9, 2016 ___________________ Having recently ended active duty service with Special Continue Reading
Get Ready, This Will Hurt | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
There’s an incredible amount we don’t know. About self, others, the ever more connected world we live in. Of course, these are the big unknowns we’ve Continue Reading
Special Forces: Market Research, When Lives are on the Line
Special Forces: Market Research, When Lives are on the Line by E.M. Burlingame This first appeared in The Havok Journal September 6, 2015. As the Continue Reading
Startup Success is a Sequence of Running Gun Battles
A running gun battle: an argument that continues over a long period of time; and a fight that takes place as one group chases Continue Reading
Entrepreneurship: The Purest Form of Unconventional Warfare
Entrepreneurship: The Purest Form of Unconventional Warfare by EM Burlingame In the sweltering heat of summer at the John Wayne School for Continue Reading