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When I'm creating an entirely new marketplace, there are few cheerleaders.
All disrupters can expect the same treatment IF you're slightly early ... on purpose.
When I begin to disrupt an industry, the so-called industry elites will think I'm chasing an impossible pipe dream.
Yet I don't care.
W...
You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.
Don’t ever start a company unless you’re totally focused on one totally disruptive idea.
For me, my focus has been centered around eradicating the high failure rate with startups.
Why do we accept a 90% failure rate? I don’t.
Most people don’t ha...
If you’re not being called crazy, you’re not thinking big enough.
God-sized ideas always seem impossible at first. They’re not realistic.
Your critics will remind you of this.
And without God’s favor, they are right.
But because of God’s favor, you’ll go further than people with more resources a...
Hey Maverick Founders —
The Elite VC (both Secular & Christian VC) like to think they get to choose the winners and the losers. How arrogant!
But the winners they choose aren’t winning. They're whining!
If you are a faith driven founder, it’s God who picks the winners and losers, not man.
What i...
Your future isn't determined by your present circumstances. It gets determined by your perception of what's possible, the size of your dreams, and God's plan and purpose for your life.
This truth has set me free to dream and do everything God has placed in my heart.
Nothing can stop God's plans fo...
How do we bring light into darkness when the church has isolated itself from most of the marketplace?
I see spirit-filled entrepreneurs with a biblical worldview as missionaries to the marketplace wielding awareness, influence and capital for global transformation.
Simply put, carrying out the gre...
I’ve discovered two ways to approach a troubling circumstance in my work or personal life
And it's always a choice. I must choose.
As a faith-driven founder/investor, when I encounter a troubling circumstance, IÂ take it to God, FIRST.
But I have a choice ...
>> Door #1 - Complaining
This is wha...
Here are 5 key considerations for startup funding and investment.  🚀 🚀
Raising capital is a vital step for faith-driven founders as they strive to make a meaningful impact through their startups. Keeping faith at the core, here are five essential factors to consider when seeking funding and investm...
Here’s how we add 10M in fresh sales revenue to every portfolio company, inside our venture studio for faith-driven founders.
Here’s the blueprint.
First we divide their target audience (segments) into three groups by annual sales potential.
(Example)
- Small - 100k
- Medium - 200k
- Large - 300k
Entrepreneurs, what’s always behind your bad results?
It’s this. Bad thinking.
- Look, we all have a way of thinking, for good or bad.
- Our thinking produces a way of doing, for good or bad.
- And then our doing produces results, for good or bad.
So when your results are bad, so is your thinki...
The state of investor readiness has radically changed over the past 24 months.
The Babylonian VC/PE ecosystem (ESG) is collapsing. (go woke. go broke)
And a new breed of spirit-filled Investors/LPs have emerged.
Locked and loaded with Kingdom capital for Kingdom projects.
For both for-profit and...
The pitch deck is how you "carefully craft" your story.
Miss this (most do), and you'll bore the pants off potential investors and customers.
Crafting the "right one" is definitely an endeavor that pays off BIG.
Look, it's hard work to get the meetings, quit blowing it!
Every single day I get in...