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…
Starter Resources
Here are some free resources to get you started on the journey of entrepreneurship:
The Lab Opens Sept. 29
It’s been months in the making, but the official grand opening of the Entrepreneurship Lab will kickoff with 5 essential training webinars, the first three starting on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 9 a.m. Central Time. These first training events are designed to lay the groundwork for the Lab training events and community and set you up…
Your First Three Critical Startup Partners
Looking back on almost 5 years of full-time entrepreneurship, these are the first three critical startup partners I would suggest when getting started with a startup. 1. Significant Other Your significant other is your first, most valuable, most influential and primary partner in your business, even if he isn’t working IN the business with you.…
Growing a Startup Like a Pumpkin?
My latest read that really is called The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz. He uses the metaphor of growing REALLY big pumpkins to taking your business to the next level. This definition of what is an entrepreneur was especially sharp: “Entrepreneurs identify the problems,…
iThemes.com Just Got Some Fancy New Clothes
After over 3 years of having the same website design on iThemes.com, I’m super pumped to announce that we just flipped the switch on our new site design. It’s been months (and maybe years) in the making with a ton of work from our uber-talented team — and in particular Brad Ulrich and Ty Carlson.…
What Successful Startups Do and Never Stop Doing
I saw a tweet today with a blurb to this Forbes post titled Unsolicited Advice to the New Yahoo! CEO and this quote in particular stood out to me. “Put together a small team of the best engineers, designers and product people you can find. Charter them with building something amazing that has to ship…
The 6+ Key Ingredients for Startup Success
For an interview profile of our new startup accelerator in Oklahoma where I have volunteered to be a mentor, I was asked this question for a profile post: “What is the most important part of a company’s application when applying to an accelerator?” Some quick background on the question: The concept of startup accelerators has…
So You’re the New Kid on the School Playground?
Your first day (and week) on the job is just like being the new kid on the school playground. You don’t know anybody so you’re probably scared. You don’t know the “rules” of the teeter-tooter (or how the coffee pot works). You’re in a foreign land and you need to start learning the language, the…