Startup Mistake: Pairing your business with the wrong vendors.
In the early stages of starting a business, no matter what that business may be, you are going to be looking for vendors. It may be manufacturers of products, services to assist your business, software providers etc. Whatever the case may be, you are (I hope) looking for assistance in starting your business, don’t burn [Read More …]
Spread the Knowledge
I am going to try something out that I implemented a while back on Papertree Design. Short little posts sharing something exciting and or brilliant that I found over the course of the week. If you don’t know, I am pretty active on Twitter and have adopted the habit of reading a lot of what [Read More …]
Business As Usual
Take a bit of time to get started before you can take the time to give up. Regardless of what the late night television commercials or the one page web sites might claim, the internet is not going to make you rich overnight. Sure there is a pot of gold to be found but it’s [Read More …]
A Better Product Through My Own Mistakes
Morning thoughts and business inspiration. One thing that I am not terribly afraid of when approaching my own business is the thought of making mistakes. In fact over the past ten years I have made mistakes in business on a fairly frequent basis, some that have certainly cost me money. Call it lack of experience [Read More …]
Concentrate Your Efforts
In other words focus on becoming good and I mean really good at one thing at a time. I think that this applies to business in general but for the purposes of this article, I will focus on my own experiences to make my point. To start I am guilty of this myself. Back when [Read More …]
Take the Leap and Pursue Your Passion
We all have a certain passion in life some of us pursue it full time other pursue it when time allows. The only failure is not taking the time to pursue it at all. I was having a peaceful moment earlier this afternoon, watching a deer graze in the field and I started thinking about [Read More …]
Freelancing Series On Papertree Design, It May Apply To You
A few weeks ago I launch the “Pitfalls of Freelancing” series on Papertree Design and for some reason overlooked the fact that it may apply to many of you and that I had made no effort to announce it here. It’s a bit slow in the making but the plan is to cover everything from [Read More …]
Build, Forward, Fast – A Simple Plan
I had to laugh at myself yesterday evening as I sat there on a Friday night catching up on some reading and watching short Rails video online. Ah what a differnce a year makes in ones life! The video was just kind of a fluke but the reading that I found myself diving into was [Read More …]
