Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is …
Let me admit up front and say that I am not a developer or a programmer. I am a former newspaper journalist turned web entrepreneur. So I freely admit I’m a hack. (And my team will back me up on that!) However, for the past four-plus years I’ve been around and worked with software developers…
I was asked by my good friend Sandip Patel of BitConfused and CageApp to talk to his Design Entrepreneurship class today and thought I’d share what I, um, shared. The group consisted mainly of graphic design majors and oriented my talk about designers started entrepreneurial ventures. *** I’m going to share heresy with you. Here…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For the past couple of years since starting my own business, I’ve heard more and more about venture capital as I’ve seen web companies launched and grown increasingly interested in the VC game. For those looking to learn your way around this world, I highly recommend the new book by VC veteran Brad Feld called…
Business is about people, dummy. Write it down. Make a poster in your office. Tape it to your mirror in the morning. Or have shirts made. When you mess up this unchanging principle, you’re ultimately doomed. When people forget it or neglect it, the result is lying, cheating, unfulfilled promises, scandal, and failure. Misalignment of…
As soon as you start your business and see some success with it, eventually, you’ll start to attract flies and mosquitoes. When you start to see the momentum moving in your business, the wheels of profit and customers returning for more, you’ll get motivated all over and re-energized to push harder and harder. The invigoration…
Today during one of our regular Townhall webinars where we share what products and features and ideas we’re working on, one of our customer community made this comment after we presented a project we’re going to tackle … “Your plans are very grand and I would say border on the delusional, but you guys pull…