Christmas shopping in Amsterdam is a semi religious event.  Money is the holy of holies in this city of old, pirate traders and their stores display the wealth of nations like no where else on Earth.  

Amsterdam, First Pitch. It has come down to a one hour pitch to potential investors to be held in the board room of one of Amsterdam’s oldest banks. All the preparation, travel and hopes are about to be weighted in the balance,  Live or Die.

Selling the Internet Dream, World Tour. These were the halcyon beginning days of the Internet and old money wanted to get in on the New, New Thing. We flew to Europe with a dream and raised 8,000,000 dollars in one hour. This is how it happened. 

How to start, run and sell an Internet Company, Education Navigator. A step by step guide to creating Wiz … The Internet was just starting to rumble bringing together Dreamers with Speculators and the rivers of money for the Right Story.

SmartKid Magazine and Computer Man, An old friend and a new opportunity has me slinging ads for a new parenting magazine with the sole intention of selling said magazine to the Big Dogs and I would get a cut but not before drama, expectations and the grand company explosion.

Tiger Direct Marketing, Selling the Catalogue, Selling Companies, Selling Everything. My next act was hustling software and hardware companies to buy pages in the catalogues. Cold calling is my specialty, just give me a phone.

Game of Phones, My new promotion to Director of Sales has me interviewing, hiring and training over 120 new sales reps to hustle corporate accounts. We installed a cutting edge Demon Dialer that makes thousands of calls a day. Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of digital war.

Management hires a new VP of Sales to get control of a rapidly growing sales force and all of us sales monkeys are scared. Tiger Direct is expanding at an exponential rate and so are the opportunities, so are the problems.

Tiger Direct. I get hired by Tiger Direct to sell technology over the phone to the newly burgeoning computer market. This is a young company full of 20 somethings living the life and management trying to succeed enough to sell the company, for management it was a stock play. I knew it and wanted in. My education continues to grow along with the company.

Fund raising Wheeler Dealer or How to make money selling money for free. Opportunity is a state of mind. When Paul the Paladin of Profit invited me to join him signing up schools to do fund raising projects with twice the salary and the potential to make 100 thou a year. I jumped. Simply irresistible, what could go wrong?