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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! There was also that gutsy couple of years I decided to sail to Panama.) and the outcomes. “If If X were true/false, then the whole thing would succeed/crumble”. We were consistently on the hunt for the layered logic of that puzzle.