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…
7 Keys to Successful Business Websites: Free Webinar
Websites are the best, most affordable, yet underused marketing tool for small businesses. But sadly few businesses understand how to utilize these powerful, measurable marketing vehicles for their businesses. At Made by Wheat, our professional web design services company, we’re doing a special educational workshop on Feb. 23 titled “7 Keys to Successful Business Websites.”…
6 Tips for Managing and Leading People
This week I was asked to talk to our local university’s management club and I thought I’d share what I did with them here. My background in management In January 2008, I started iThemes in my home. It was just me. Four years later, we now have 20+ employees (spread through the world from the…
Score One for Web Freedom
The good news is … SOPA and PIPA have been delayed by the House and Senate. The bad news is … they will come back with brand new clothes, a shiny new name, and more teeth soon. In fact, they could come back with a venegeance because of the forces behind them. Millions of people…
The Entrepreneurial Adventure Book is Here!
In 2008 I started my entrepreneurial journey with the founding of iThemes. This month, in fact, is my four year anniversary of becoming a full-time entrepreneur and living my lifelong dream. Throughout the years as we’ve enjoyed our definition of success and others have seen it, I’ve been increasingly asked by friends and acquaintances about…
The Entrepreneurial Adventure Book is Here!
In 2008 I started my entrepreneurial journey with the founding of iThemes. This month, in fact, is my four year anniversary of becoming a full-time entrepreneur and living my lifelong dream. Throughout the years as we’ve enjoyed our definition of success and others have seen it, I’ve been increasingly asked by friends and acquaintances about…
Is Entrepreneurship For You?
Here’s the first session I did for our Pre-Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at The Div in December 2011. We had a great group of speakers with 12 budding aspiring entrepreneurs in the room for one full day of training. I believe entrepreneurship should be a noble cause. As entrepreneurs, we should seek to change the world for…
New WordPress Design for Startup Sofa
Really excited to officially unveil the new WordPress theme design for Startup Sofa! The site has been powered by iThemes Builder, but with a previously lame design by me. Ty Carlson from Made by Wheat did the custom design work and I’m very pleased. Now … I HAVE to start blogging more here. Whatcha think…
Sell Out To Your Passion
One of the guys in WordPress I’ve gotten to meet is Andrew Norcross … he recently wrote a really honest (and funny) post about going to work full-time for a company after running his own business. The title is dead on … “It’s not selling out, it’s buying in.” He talks about wanting to focus…