Overcoming Your Fear of Failure
Over the weekend, my wife Lindsey and I along with my brothers and their amazing wives were in Dallas. At a restaurant we played a game that would pose a question to our group then want us to discuss and answer it for the group. One of the questions that I answered without question but…
5 Key Books for Every Entrepreneur-Developer
If I only had five books to recommend to entrepreneur-developers, to help you get started, I’d give you these. They either shaped, improved or solidified my approach to business and I point back to as keys to my success. Here they are in order of priority with why you should read: Do the Work by…
6 Years and Lessons of Entrepreneurship
This month, I celebrate six years of full-time entrepreneurship as I started iThemes in January 2008. I thought it was time for some reflection on what I’ve learned so far and to update some thoughts. Here are 6 some lessons I learned from 6 years of entrepreneurship: Be relentless about your own happiness — AND…
The New Rules of Entrepreneurship Ebook is Here
Thanks for the many people who helped edit and commented on my draft of The New Rules of Entrepreneurship and our team at iThemes, I’m excited to announce that the ebook is here for download. Download The New Rules of Entrepreneurship Ebook Here You can read the original blog post and rough outline I pushed…
My Work Is My Hobby
I say often that I don’t have hobbies, at least the typical ones like others in my life have (like golf or hunting). For many they might not like or agree with what I have to say about the subject of hobbies, but regardless, I want to share my experiences having a full-time job which…
Build Your Business Like Software
(I wrote in-depth pieces about how Your Business Is like Software here and also have another 8 Similar Principles Between Business and Software Development here.) Build. Ship. Iterate. I love iterative software development. It’s how I’ve seen good software ship and become great software over time. I adore how it is all about continuous improvement. And I fully embrace it for…
Setting Goals for 2014: What Do I Want To Achieve This Year?
Buckle up … this is a long one. But I’ve been wanting to record what I’ve been working toward and learning the past couple of weeks, months and years about success and achievement, about goals, chief aims, habits, routines, and incremental progress. Take a deep breath and let’s go. *** For the first couple weeks…
Marketing Isn’t Evil, It’s Your Best Ally
This is a post in my series titled Entrepreneurship for Developers. (Get it delivered via email here). Too many of you awesome developers think all marketing is evil and all marketers are sleazy. As such, you stay as far away from it as you possibly can. That’s a huge mistake. And here’s why I believe that: If…
It All Starts With Getting To Know Yourself
I want to kick it off my series on Entrepreneurship for Developers (get it delivered via email here) with a subject I love most in business but one that is also absolutely key to surviving and thriving as a entrepreneur: Knowing yourself. In 2008 when I started iThemes, I had a fairly vague inventory of my strengths,…
New Series: Entrepreneurship for Developers
Based on input I got about a series for developers who are also wearing the hat of entrepreneur, founder, CEO … I’m going to be intentional about blogging some tips, thoughts and experiences in 2014 and I’m calling the blog series Entrepreneurship for Developers. (Get it via email here.) Here are some of the topics I…