Maybe you were blessed with the right group of friends. I wasn’t. I knew one “Rich Kid” but only because he was hooking up on the side with a poor girl from my neighborhood. Once he went off to college he left her behind. We all tried to warn her - but she wouldn’t listen. She was in love and was convinced that we just didn’t understand him.

We understood him better than she thought.

Thats the problem with picking the people around you. Sometimes your heart gets in the way of your brain. My first real crew got together when I was about 6 years old. We ran a little syndicate at the elementary school. We sold a product that had universal appeal and cost us nothing to get. We could have put any price on it because we cornered the market - but we wanted to make money, so we priced it at what would generate the most sales. Continue reading ‘How to pick your million dollar crew’