Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following people for their help with this book:

Judith Strauss for her efforts, for so many years, to make my sentences clean and comprehensible. Jason Holland and Suzanne Richardson for their enthusiastic work tracking down facts and conducting interviews for this book and for EarlytoRise.com. Charlie Byrne for his thought- ful comments. The folks at John Wiley & Sons for their patience and support, and Mike Ward for suggesting, once again, the title for this book.

Jay Abraham for his early mentorship in my career and for his Foreword to this book.

Porter Stansberry for his comments on mentorship, hiring, networking, and consistency. Brian Smith for his thoughts on expanding the customer base. Richard Schefren for his good ideas on management. Joe Seta and Tom Foster for introducing me to the philosophies of Elliott Jaques.

Bill Bonner for his partnership, mentorship, and specifically his contributions about running an idea-led business.

All my business mentors, to whom I will always be grateful for teaching me their best secrets and letting me go when I needed to go out on my own.

All 30 of the entrepreneurs who attended my business-building Bootcamp at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan last year. Preparing for that event forced me to refine my ideas about what it takes to start and grow a successful small business.

Penultimately, Christoph Amberger, Laura Davis, Justin Ford, Sandy Franks, Dave Gibson, Helmut Graf, Julia Guth, Annabelle Koffman, ...