How to Bootstrap Your Business: 7 Ideas
7 Keys to Bootstrapping Your Business from Cory Miller Over at my Entrepreneurship Lab, I just shared 7 keys to bootstrapping your business, which are: Start part-time Ditch the financial baggage Raise social capital Build your name & fame Pour solid foundations Dial in the experiment Just keep pushing the snowball Go read the full
How to Make Time for Your Startup
One of the questions I’ve seen asked, or problems I’ve heard most from surveys of budding entrepreneurs is “How do I make time for my startup?” It’s tremendously hard to work on your business while also maintaining a full-time job and juggling family responsibilities. So I’ve posted a new bonus webinar for October on the
A Real Responsive WordPress Theme
Today, our theme team at iThemes released iThemes Builder 4.0 with responsive support baked in and 6 responsive child themes. It’s been a long week for our trio on the theme team (Chris Jean, Justin Kopepasah and Cody Smith) with many nights past midnight working to get final details ironed out and tested before launch.
How to Test Your Business Like a Mad Scientist
Disclaimer: This is a super long post admittedly but meant to be a roadmap for your experiments. So here is the TLDR version aka the PDF of the article. Also you can download the MP3 audio recording and slides from the original presentation here. Your business is just one big continual experiment, with many parts
The Great Entrepreneurial Experiment [Downloads]
Here are the downloads from the recent webinar titled The Great Entrepreneurial Experiment. I’m currently working on a written post for it as well.
Stirring Up Entrepreneurship in Your City
Last week I had the opportunity to meet one of my startup heroes — Brad Feld, co-founder of the Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars. He was in Oklahoma City to speak at a local tech conference on the subject of how to build a startup culture in your city based on his new book Startup Communities:
How to Build a Startup Culture In Your City
I make no secret about the fact that one of my life’s passion is entrepreneurship. But another great passion and pride is for my city (Oklahoma City) and state (Oklahoma). I’m an Okie through and through. I love what’s happening here and want to see my community thrive as we build and support the Oklahoma
Why Do You Really Want to Start a Business?
I’ve been reflecting on the answer to that question myself. (And would like to hear your answer to it in the Lab forum here.) As the Lab has opened, I’ve been thinking back to why I wanted to be an entrepreneur in the first place (since I was around 16 or 17 years old) …
Kickoff Recordings and Slides
Here’s what we covered in these first webinars on Sept. 29 during the Lab kickoff: What the Entrepreneurship Lab is All About — a welcome and introduction Is Entrepreneurship For You: 8 Questions To Ask – Entrepreneurship is a journey. You need to be ready for the climb. These vital questions will help you lock
My New Entrepreneurship Lab Opens Saturday
Entrepreneurship is a passion of mine. And for the last couple of years, I’ve become increasingly more intentional about helping budding entrepreneurs live their own dreams … and yes, learn from my mistakes as well as the things we’ve learned that have helped make us successful! Since starting iThemes in January 2008, and thus fulfilling