WordPress Backups Have Never Been Easier
This week we launched BackupBuddy 3.1 and with it our new storage destination for your WordPress backups that we’re calling BackupBuddy Stash. We believe it’s absolutely vital to keep your site backups off site so if God forbid a crash happens your site is safe and secure and accessible to restore it. BackupBuddy Stash makes…
7 Keys to Bootstrapping Your Business
[This is a recap post from the webinar I did for the EntreLab community. You can download the slides and audio recording in the member’s area.] 7 Keys to Bootstrapping Your Business from Cory Miller | Slides by the awesome Chris Lema Bootstrapped entrepreneurship is the process of taking LIMITED time, talent and treasure to…
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) ……