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Another book sale, another 10–15 new books in my collection. It’s a sickness really but a good thing I suppose — I feel like every time I pick up a few new books to add to my library, I am absorbing more collective knowledge that I can draw from and inspire my writing.
Kevin O’Leary is probably someone you know — he’s on Dragon’s Den and on Shark Tank (though I know him mostly from Shark Tank). On Shark Tank, he is, and I hate to admit it but in his words, he has the most creative deals. While most of the sharks tend to offer straight up cash for a percentage of companies, Kevin is often offering deals such as loans, or a cut of each of the sales or some combination of the above. It might also be his TV personality (though I think he may be like this in real life too) but he is often the one dropping harsh truths on people when they are either not cut out to be an entrepreneur, lie about their numbers or hide something such as investment rounds or large debts during the entrepreneur’s pitches.
All that said, I was excited to see what Kevin had to say about money — it’s a subject that I’m quite interested in (I mean who isn’t interested in the subject) and I wanted to figure out how to change some of the mindset and values that I have around money given that I was not very good at managing it when I was younger. Like his TV personality…
