There are days when I just want to be a stay at home dad. Yesterday was one of them.More
Author Archives: jlexpa
A secret for surviving in business
This week I was on a radio show. And I started wondering how the radio business works. I knew that it sold ads and branded content, but I didn’t know how they could be surviving in the age of digital media.More
One of the best decisions I’ve ever made in business
Business partnerships are not easy.More
My first year of entrepreneurship: from surviving to thriving
It had been less than a year since I first started my company, and I was running out of money.More
How I recovered from one of the worst mistakes ever
I misplaced over a million dollars. And, it wasn’t my money.More
Sometimes you need to quit a good job to get a great career
In my early thirties, I left a solid job and took a 50 percent pay cut to join a fledgling start-up.More
Getting fired from my job was the best thing for me
It was my dream job out of graduate school. Then, I got fired.More
How do I find the work I love?
How many times have you heard that you need to find your passion? It almost seems as if we need to have a passion for finding our passion. The problem is that so many of us have no idea what our passion is.More
Life and Death of a Product
Lessons I learned from launching our app. I thought we could build a minimum viable product in three months and keep our existing company intact. But, I was wrong.More
On the edge of quitting
When I started on my entrepreneurial adventure, I didn’t think it would end like this. Two out of my three partners left in a span of ten months. Over half of our staff left in less than twelve months. And, I was burning out. I was watching nearly a decade worth of work start to collapse.…More