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Every weekend, 80 to 100 people walk into our shop to sell us cards. For a long time that was chaos. A paper list. People hovering by the counter. "Am I next?" Staff guessing at wait times. Sellers giving up and walking out. So I built a w…
Read the post →Question for the entrepreneurs out there. How do you stay grateful for the business you already have... while still waking up every day wanting more sales, more profit, more growth? Because I feel both. Same day. Same brain. I look at our…
Read the post →I can't imagine a more exciting time to be in print on demand. I was there 14 years ago when it all got started — and I'll say it plainly: there has never been a better time to get in than right now. Which is why it confuses me that most o…
Read the post →Stord just raised $250M at a $3B valuation. Worth reading the founder's note. The line that stuck with me: "9 of the 10 largest US companies by revenue operate physical networks at scale. Physical foundations built with the right technolog…
Read the post →He took 2 years off to recover. I didn't. A former business partner stopped by Izzi's Gym today. The guy who was in the trenches with me when we built the old company. The one who bottomed out the same time I did. We didn't just build a bu…
Read the post →As Harley Finkelstein just said in today's Q1 earnings: "No group benefits more from AI than entrepreneurs." And Sidekick usage tells the same story: • Weekly active shops using Sidekick up 4x year over year • 12,000+ custom apps were buil…
Read the post →It’s 9:30pm and I’m exhausted. Not the kind of tired that comes from doing nothing. The kind that comes from building something. I saw a quote on TikTok tonight that stopped me cold: “What a privilege to be tired from the work you once beg…
Read the post →About 90% of startups fail. Nearly 1 in 5 don't survive their first year. And by year 10? 65% are gone. I've lived those numbers. In 40 years of life I've started dozens and dozens of businesses. Most of them died. Only one ever really wor…
Read the post →The passion behind niche interests and the communities they build is truly inspiring. Witnessing the growth of communities like Izzy's Gym can spark new ideas and motivations. It's amazing how shared interests foster connection and encoura…
Read the post →New afternoon. New problem. New solution. We have a growing collection of PSA graded slabs at Izzi's Gym — but not enough display space to show them all. So instead of letting inventory sit in a box, I built something. A simple web app tha…
Read the post →Another business problem solved by AI. 🤖 At Izzi's Gym, our kiosk does serious volume. Customers browse our inventory through TCGPlayer, pick their cards, and we pull them from the back for checkout. Great system — except there was no way…
Read the post →Animated Shows, VeeCon, and Why We're Betting on This Brand If you only look at VeeFriends as a collectibles brand, you're missing what Gary Vaynerchuk is actually building. VeeCon is the clearest example. Every year, Gary hosts a multi-da…
Read the post →The Kid Who Sold Baseball Cards at a Flea Market Before there was VeeFriends, there was a kid at a New Jersey flea market selling baseball cards to anyone who'd stop and listen. That kid grew up to be Gary Vaynerchuk — "GaryVee" — one of t…
Read the post →Why We Chose to Carry VeeFriends at Izzi's Gym We recently started stocking VeeFriends at Izzi's Gym — and I want to explain the thinking behind it, because it goes deeper than just carrying a popular product. VeeFriends is Gary Vaynerchuk…
Read the post →We had a problem at Izzi's Gym: only 60% of new customers were signing up for our free loyalty program. The hypothesis? The only way to sign up was during checkout — and by that point, customers are ready to walk out the door. Even if it's…
Read the post →Cursor + Claude is dangerous for ADHD founders. Here's why: I have a million ideas. Most never got built. Not because they were bad. Because I didn't have the time. Or the money. Or the skills to code them myself. Last night I barely slept…
Read the post →Most people think entrepreneurship is strategy and vision. It's not. It's toilet paper. I just got excited about a new dispenser for my store. Why? Holds 4 rolls instead of 1 Coreless (no cardboard tubes rolling around the floor) Survives…
Read the post →You know you're an entrepreneur when you're up at midnight researching how to make a toilet flush more efficiently. Nobody talks about this part. The emails. The payroll. The "why is that light flickering" at 2am. You don't get a manual. Y…
Read the post →The founders of HeyGen hated being on camera. So they built a $500M+ AI video company. Here's the genius behind it: Joshua Xu was at Snapchat. Wayne Liang was at Smule. Both built products for creators. Neither could be one themselves. Way…
Read the post →I need to tell you about my dad. His name was Ted. He was an entrepreneur. Worked harder than anyone I've ever known. But here's what he taught me: Business isn't about the money. It's about what the money lets you do. For him? It was abou…
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