My New Blog about Work-Life Alignment
As I’ve looked back on my life, I have a couple of themes that I’m passionate about. And for the ones that rise to the top and that I can’t stop talking about or having an opinion on, I just start a blog around that topic. For my passion of entrepreneurship and for helping people
How to Get Paid Well To Do What You Love: Free Ebook
My post on How to be a Professional has been by far the most popular post at Startup Sofa. So I thought I’d expand on that after getting asked to speak to high school students at our local career tech recently and repurpose for you in ebook form (there’s the slideshow below too). I’ve got
Startups Need Driven Drivers
For the past two nights I’ve woken up at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. respectively with ideas and issues I need to get done with our four-year-old startup at iThemes. I thought after the first couple of years this bad habit would stop, but it hasn’t. I still feel compelled to make sure the business
How to Do What You Love And Get Paid Well For It: 5 Keys
[ DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS A FREE PDF EBOOK HERE ] The Short & Sweet Slides Version View more presentations from Cory Miller My post on How to be a Professional has been by far the most popular post on this blog. So I thought I’d expand on that after getting asked to speak to
Using Assessment Tools, Like StrengthsFinder, In Your Business
One of the most helpful tools we’ve used for our workplace is the Gallup-backed StrengthsFinder.com assessment tool to understand each of our team member’s unique and natural strengths. We use it to find out what they are great at and how we can fit that into the context of our team dynamics and to ensure
8 Similar Principles Between Business and Software Development
Here’s a followup of my Your Business is Like Software post. It was too long to put there, so here are 8 things I find remarkably similar between business and software development: Assumptions and ideas are like farts in the wind. Do your due diligence. Then test everything. Beta test the big things. Get feedback.
Your Business Is Like Software
Let me admit up front and say that I am not a developer or a programmer. I am a former newspaper journalist turned web entrepreneur. So I freely admit I’m a hack. (And my team will back me up on that!) However, for the past four-plus years I’ve been around and worked with software developers
5 Heretical Tips for Entreprenuerial-Minded Designers
I was asked by my good friend Sandip Patel of BitConfused and CageApp to talk to his Design Entrepreneurship class today and thought I’d share what I, um, shared. The group consisted mainly of graphic design majors and oriented my talk about designers started entrepreneurial ventures. *** I’m going to share heresy with you. Here
What’s Holding Back Your Entrepreneurial Dreams?
As part of my StartupSofa blog where I try to offer resources to budding entrepreneurs, I’ve just released a survey to see where you are in the entrepreneurial adventure. If you’re looking to start a business, or already doing one part-time (or heck even full-time), please take 30 seconds to fill this out survey so
Our Plan to Invest in You This Year
I’ve just rolled out our LifeDev plans as part of our Make Waves Manifestos at iThemes today. It is our way to invest in you — our community and our team. It is one way for us to give back and give of ourselves and I hope you will join us in doing so. Throughout