Companies need to be export-ready - @MarlonAHill #CaribbeanAmericanBusinessSummit Next session coming up will focus on how to scale your business. I will be speaking on that panel #CaribbeanAmericanBusinessSummit

Michael B Jordan did the right thing. Now, during this Caribbean American Heritage Month, we NEED to have real discussions about issues between Black Americans and Caribbean Americans so that we can be more united instead - tt.loopnews.com/content/michae… We cannot pretend that issues do not exist betweenn the various groups of who is classified as “Black” in the USA.

Those of us from different countries but still classified as “Black” can speak to the issues we have encountered from those with more history in America

However...

Never make the mistake of wasting time trying to convert someone into being a supporter/customer/investor before you qualify them and assign them to one of these groups: Your time is limited and you need to ALWAYS be focusing on what moves the needle, not what strokes your ego or their ego.

Figure out where they fit and then determine if time spent on them right now will yield the results that you need.

Salespeople do this all the time.

Yesterday a new strategic business partner took me for my first full round of golf since my surgery 2 years ago (I wasn’t allowed to play). Just hitting a ball felt great...the sole Par for the day was brawta.

Plus we had iguanas as our viewing gallery. Glad they can’t boo! My best shot of the day which got me a par on the hole.

Let’s not talk about the 6 balls that I lost on just the first 9 holes 🤦🏽‍♂️🤣 (We don’t talk about my score either)

I have a framework for my business and personal life that sets a cap on number of things I can work on at the same time and I rank them Low/Med/High on 6 specific metrics and any new one that’s better REPLACES lower ranked one.

Personal cap - 5 (incl hobbies)
Business - 3

https://twitter.com/minal_hasan/status/1365106155890954241

I’ve resigned from boards of companies and non-profits, dropped hobbies or moved on from projects/ventures because something came along they ranked higher.

You have to be selective or you burnout.

A good friend of mine reached out a few days ago to share what he was working on and I was not surprised...but impressed with the detail, the passion and financials.

I wired the first of our investment today and he is in shock. I can’t wait to announce this one...or the location He had other investors lined up for the small version of his idea so I asked to see the bigger version and his budget. He didn’t want so many investors though and so he figured he may as well ask me, as a long shot.

Then I shared our @realvibez plans and BOOM...it clicked.

The bar for joining the ranks of the richest 1% depends on where you live.

Here's what it takes around the world —> US$4.4M for the USA —> bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business I was never raised to envy or hate the wealthy. I was taught to learn what they did different so that I could do what I could to be able to give charitably to address the issues I felt were crucial to a a better society.

I share this video with many ppl -

A thread about building a company from scratch:

Building a startup and then attempting to scale is like designing then building a car that will need to eventually fly, even become a rocket ship.

You need to spend time sketching the initial design of the vehicle. 1/n Almost no one will give you money to sketch. YOU are the likely only investor at that stage.

You can move quicker by finding something similar and then modifying that template for time period, market size, geography, experience and skills.

Then you have an MVP to build

I really look up to #SteveJobs and you can tell just by my bio and the quote I have in it.

He would have been 65 years old today so here are some of my favourite quotes from him that have helped guide my life and decision-making. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations - #SteveJobs

This session with an entrepreneur and his wife yesterday had my brain working ALL night and so I’ve decided to do a #thread without my super personal details.

This is a thread about #love and being an #entrepreneur Once I had clarity of purpose and felt in my soul that I knew why I was on this planet at this particular time, I wrote a plan to achieve that ultimate objective.

I studied role models to understand how they managed to find love, especially paying attention to @richardbranson

A #thread on the largest wealth transfer in history

This comes from the notes that I took in August when attending the Private Wealth Forum in Palm Beach this year

#wealthpreservation #wealthcreation #investing #familyoffice - US$48 Trillion are going from Baby Boomers to Gen X and Millennials

“People worry more about not having enough money more than taxes” - Vincent Munno

- US$122+ Trillion in UNFUNDED liabilities (USA)

- 328 Million population (USA)

Getting ready to announce my ticket giveaway for @EcomexSummit which will now be a virtual summit and allow more people to benefit... The first company that I ever founded was called... Random Media LLC.

It was founded with my brother Robert to build and run the online platform Realvibes.net (renamed Realvibez TV).

The winner of the free ticket, picked randomly out of a hat is...

@facey_pg 🙌🏽

A #thread about the way you think about money and wealth As a member of a family office association for the last 5 years, I get to spend a fair amount of time with ultra-wealthy people. Thankfully I was never raised to think of rich people as evil or mean nor did I feel entitled to their money.

@CentralBankJA is starting their “Conversation On Improving Access To Finance For MSMEs”

#Jamaica #financialinclusion This is the handout for attendees and it has some sobering statistics about #Jamaica but it also shows the opportunity for the unbanked and underbanked

My life has been so much more enjoyable and less stressful since I decided to really go hard at ignoring negative people and negative situations, only focusing on those with positive energy.

Try it! I took some simple steps:

1. Don’t engage with negative comments, messages or news stories first thing in the morning - They start your day off the wrong way

2. Take a minimum of 24 hrs to reply to any person that has historically added negativity to your life. Slowly remove

A good friend watched my video with @Michael_LeeChin and reached out this morning for some advice based on a simple question that many have:

“I have realized that the older I get.... The fear aspect gets louder in my head.....what do u do to quiet the inner noise?” I will share my answers that I have to my friend since they are universal and not personally identifying

A #thread about what has and has not worked for me since launching my first startup in Feb 2002 with my brother, striking some big deals, raising capital, losing money and rebuilding.

I hope you find it thought-provoking We built some hype around @realvibez with our branded car, sponsoring events like Stages, ATI, Blink and Reggae Sumfest but we also knew that we had to be authentic - the website actually had to have the content on it

Here’s a little lesson in business registration for my US and Jamaican followers:

Most US companies are gusteres in Delaware because it has the most favourable laws for businesses AND “has a separate Court of Chancery to hear cases involving corporate law”

No corp taxes either Just read this - delawareinc.com/blog/facebook-…

Jamaica is nothing like the USA.

I can register in a different state and do business across each state with certain registrations and/or licenses. The USA is a union of individual states.

I enjoyed talking about my wife and marriage so here are some things I’ve done as an entrepreneur to try to minimize the risk of divorce.

So far it’s worked, 12 years in May, but anything can happen so take it with a grain of salt I was VERY clear about the 15-year plan I had until I was 30 and it wasn’t changing because we got married because the marriage was factored in.

When I turned 30 I put together a 20-year plan broken into blocks of 5 years BUT this time it was less detailed and SHE helped

When Jamaicans abroad complain to me about Tivoli Gardens, Denham Town and other areas (which they have often never been to), I have to point out the parts of Miami and Orlando that I don’t feel safe going to after dark.

Every large city has zones of danger and exclusion Focus on the solutions for those areas rather than pretending that those areas are unique in the world. Don’t stigmatize the residents and paint all with a broad brush.

Be part of the solution or be quiet.