Learning Your Way Around the World of Venture Capital
For the past couple of years since starting my own business, I’ve heard more and more about venture capital as I’ve seen web companies launched and grown increasingly interested in the VC game. For those looking to learn your way around this world, I highly recommend the new book by VC veteran Brad Feld called
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5 Ways to Maximize the Amazon Kindle Platform
When the Amazon Kindle originally came out, I was about ready to buy one so I could start reading ebooks on it, but then the iPad was introduced and thus I bought an iPad. Now we bought several at iThemes and gave them out to our team. For the past 6-8 months I’ve transitioned my
It’s About People, Stupid
Business is about people, dummy. Write it down. Make a poster in your office. Tape it to your mirror in the morning. Or have shirts made. When you mess up this unchanging principle, you’re ultimately doomed. When people forget it or neglect it, the result is lying, cheating, unfulfilled promises, scandal, and failure. Misalignment of
On Giving $100K in Free WordPress Resources to Educators
One of our core values at iThemes (and my personal life) is … Learn and Grow, then Teach and Share. Our commitment has always to helping individuals on our teams grow and push themselves to do more. We started a nonprofit web tech foundation to help individuals in Oklahoma aspire to make careers in web
On the Mosquitoes of Business
As soon as you start your business and see some success with it, eventually, you’ll start to attract flies and mosquitoes. When you start to see the momentum moving in your business, the wheels of profit and customers returning for more, you’ll get motivated all over and re-energized to push harder and harder. The invigoration
On the Foolishness of Bold Innovation
Today during one of our regular Townhall webinars where we share what products and features and ideas we’re working on, one of our customer community made this comment after we presented a project we’re going to tackle … “Your plans are very grand and I would say border on the delusional, but you guys pull
On Rowing the Boat
Lately I’ve been using a metaphor about rowing boats to illustrate how each person on our team must add value or be removed from the team. (Please know I don’t take letting someone go lightly. I’ve had to do it several times at iThemes, but it’s always a hard, and often emotional decision and one
On Doing Things the Right Way
As an entrepreneur almost every week you’re faced with an opportunity to do things the right way. Money and revenue allow our business to stay going and the lights on and our health insurance paid and all those fun things that let us do passionate, purposeful work. But oftentimes when we’re scraping to get to
Two Excellent Books for Aspiring Startup Entrepreneurs
Just got through reading two excellent books aimed at aspiring startup entrepreneurs that I highly recommend: Anything You Want by Derek Sivers, Founder of CD Baby Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup Also, I put together an Amazon Store with all the books that I’ve read and profited from (both