I’m Philip Keezer, the founder of Grindstone Capital. My aim is to eliminate income inequality through automated e-commerce with the principles of self-reliance, integrity, and the free market.
Salary taxes, the infrastructure needed to accommodate a modern worker (even if they work remotely) and the responsibility you take on when hiring people. All of these can be a hurdle, especially when you’re just starting out with your business.That’s why outsourcing tasks and responsibilities can be...
Last year was pretty world-changing. Lockdowns, the pandemic, a drop in demand for physical stores, and shifts all across the financial sector have charted an unfamiliar path ahead of us.
However, these changes bring about great opportunities for 2021. If you analyze your successes...
With the advent of platforms like Udemy or Coursera, high-quality education is now easier to access than ever before. Sometimes, you can get valuable courses, taught by professors from world-class universities, for as low as $50.
That’s a bargain, because it helps you constantly...
They say that mastery begins with humility. And yet, between all the character traits that are commonly lauded in human beings, humility is one of the most underrated and misunderstood.
In a highly-competitive world, in which there’s constant pressure to appear more powerful or...
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