Business
Since even before I started iThemes in my home in 2008, my partners and I were thinking that if at some point our fledgling business succeeds and thrives, we wanted to find ways to give back in various ways. Now going on our fourth year of business, we’ve started to put our money and time…
Yesterday, I did a State of iThemes presentation to our community in order to unpack our core values, philosophies and business objectives and goals for 2011. I’ve done this before, but in the last 3+ years running a business, especially an online one, I’ve realized how valuable it is to simply communicate transparently who we…
My friend Scott Ellis asked me to be on his new vidcast Relentless Business recently and he’s just posted the video interview I did with him.
This Friday, I’m doing another webinar at StartupSofa — a new community for aspiring and rookie entrepreneurs — called How to Start a Web-Based Digital Products Business. You can register online here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/972390234 Also … I just posted 12 tips for how to be a professional — my advice for college grads with their first…
Over at StartupSofa, my new project for aspiring entrepreneurs, I’ve got a couple of new things going … I just posted an article asking key questions for those interested in starting new businesses … it’s called Is Entrepreneurship Right For You. It’s based on the first webinar I did last week on the same subject.…
I just launched my newest personal project called StartupSofa — where I hope to help aspiring and rookie entrepreneurs. We’ve got a community forum … and I’m doing the first webinar Jan. 14 called First Steps to Launching Your Business Dream. (You can learn more about StartupSofa and what I hope to offer there.) Here…
My good friend Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of WordPress for Dummies (where iThemes, my company, is mentioned), myself, and three others of us will be writing a 900-plus-page book called WordPress All-in-One Desk Reference. Actually … we’ve been writing on it for two months now. It’s been hard work but also a blast. And by being…
I did these short videos this week to highlight some of the core values and philosophies that define us as a team and business. My purpose in these videos is simple: I want you to get to know us and what we’re about at our core. If you know who we are, then you’ll better…
We just announced today that our team will be traveling to WordCamp Boulder July 10 …. in an RV! Yes … 6 geeks, 1,500 miles and one RV. Check out our little promo video below for why we’re going …. and also follow along our excellent advenuture at iThemesRoadtrips.com.
I just gave my talk on Lessons I’ve Learned as an Entrepreneur to WordCamp Chicago this weekend … and got one of the most awesome honors afterward: being pelted with orange stress balls. At least they didn’t have fruit! The WordCamp Chicago presentation was not recorded but here’s the recording of the first time I…