3 Billionaire Insights from 25 Interviews Completed

3 Billionaire Insights

From 25 Exclusive Billionaire Interviews


Now that we have collected 75 strategies from 25 billionaires for 
Billionaires.com here are a few notes from the series:

1) You get exponential results when you only work on highly profitable business models, great partners, great employees, and personally focus on your super abilities. When you don't have just 1-2 of these but you stack all of them on top of each other your potential for explosive growth in the right niche goes up greatly.

2) Develop an octopus strategic business model where various business units inform, serve, provide leads, and make other assets you own more profitable.

3) Acquire strategic choke point assets that give you a sustained edge and lower cost of distribution or capital or customer flow over everyone else, the best of these choke points can't be owned by someone else once you acquire them.

Check out what Jeff Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Tony Robbins and others have to say in our exclusive interviews with them - https://billionaires.com/

Red Flags - Run The Other Way When You See This

After 16+ years of hosting over 190 events and sending 151,000 emails to date over that time, I have developed a series of yellow and red flags I look for to save myself energy. Here are some of them:
 

1. I prefer email, and if some people claim their idea can't possibly be communicated in writing in a simple format, I pass.

 

2.  Anyone who says their investment is guaranteed that is like saying "bomb" on an airplane anyone with a year of experience or any education on regulations knows not to say that.

 

3. When someone says they are buying an island to develop a resort, run the other way. The larger the project is, the more amateur the person hawking it is, and the more daisy chain (not real or great) the project may be in my experience. There are many $1B projects which are excellent, but most great deals are $1M-$100M or $100m-$500M, which are real, direct to the owner, etc. 

 

4. When others get insulted that I would like an agenda for a phone call and review materials before jumping on, I prefer to have my team navigate or try to move on.

 

5. If I am treated in a rude way, or rushed, the person seems highly stressed or follows up 3x over 24 hours, or 5x in a week, I know they will eat whoever I introduce them to alive and make me look bad, so I move on.

 

6. When someone uses ethnic slurs, derogatory language, or things that would get you auto-canceled (many times for good reason) in today's society, if you have that poor of judgment to say such things, I do not want to work together.

 

7. If someone demands to talk to me on the phone, refuses to talk to my team and is rude about it - I move on.

 

8. Not a hard and fast rule, but if you don't take yourself seriously enough not to use a Gmail or yahoo email address, don't have a website, email signature, etc. and haven't invested $100 or $1,000 in these few things, why should we invest our time worth that same amount - we can't take you more seriously than you take yourself.

 

9. Suppose you are doing 9 different things and you do not have 1-3 areas of focus. In that case, it will be hard to work together typically unless those 9 different things are all in one bucket or focus area, such as 9 ventures in the niche of stem cells or dry cleaners or workforce housing.

 

10. If it is not immediately crystal clear what you do and it is not unique, I try to be helpful but I know it is very unlikely I will be able to help a lot.

 

11. When someone takes it personally and gets angry at a client or me and takes it personally that we didn't reply to their email, as if they have us on retainer to reply to their random emails, which come in all shapes and sizes at all times of the day from 1,000's of people, I know we can't work together.

 

12. When an email looks like a high school essay and is super long it makes it harder to figure out what the main point is and I will likely miss it.


There are many more screening criteria I consider, but these are 12 that I wanted to share today. Also, when someone has something very unique in 2-3 compelling ways, is concise, and seems like a great person, then I go out of my way to try to be extra helpful when I can as I'm sure you do as well.
 
I hope a few of these help investors or those raising capital with screening messages or putting out requests for time or capital. Have a great end to your week.

Starting a Family Office

Starting a Family Office

Starting a Family Office
I've been thinking a lot lately about the single family office launch process as I work with a couple of wealthy families that are forming their single family offices and advisory boards, and recently was given the mandate to run a single family office for a family that recently sold their business (http://TheMiamiFamilyOffice.com).  I wanted to share a few important items from our family office startup checklist.

The following is a high-level list of things which you should consider having in place while forming a single family office.  This list is not exhaustive, and would need some customization for each family’s unique needs and goals, but it should help guide the process. This list was taken from our book, "The Single Family Office: Creating, Operating, and Managing Investments of a Single Family Office."

Family Office Startup Checklist
  • A Family Compass document has been created to ensure that from the beginning, the vision, objectives, goals, values, mission, and history of the family has been documented and incorporated into the investing and operating plans of the single family office.
  • An operating plan on how day-to-day activities are carried out within the single family office has been established.  A binder has been created which documents each of the Key Performance Indicators and critical processes to ensure the family office is operating as it should.
  • Financial controls are in place to prevent embezzlement, unauthorized investments, and style drift within an investment portfolio.
  • A core team has been identified and one individual has been appointed as the single family office CEO and/or CIO to act as the key executive making operational and/or investment decisions.
  • Ethics and governance policies have been established to set out expectations for how personnel decisions are made, who can use family assets for personal benefit, how conflicts of interest should be managed, and what ethical obligations each family member is under.
  • Legal structures set up properly for real estate holdings, operating businesses, investments, etc.  Legal counsel has reviewed the entities to ensure that if one goes bankrupt or gets sued that it would not take down the entire family empire.
  • Independent insurance professionals have been consulted who are not on commission to sell you more insurance to ensure proper coverage.
  • Contingency plans for death, disasters, divorces, etc. how adaptations to breaking up the larger family office or changing family goals/values will be dealt with, etc.
  • A diverse advisory board and investment committee have been established with policies on how they operate and help oversee governance issues within the single family office.
For more on what this work encompasses please see this page: 

We have also covered these topics in our training webinars and at our live events as we will at the Family Office Super Summit on December 1st, and 2nd.  To receive the latest on our activities, and full access to all of our events and webinars please become a Charter Member of the Family Office Club here: 
 
Richard C. Wilson
(212) 729-5067
Single Family Office Management
77 Harbor Drive Suite #76
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
http://SingleFamilyOffices.com

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Family Office Jobs

Family Office Jobs


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