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Startups Need Driven Drivers
For the past two nights I’ve woken up at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. respectively with ideas and issues I need to get done with our four-year-old startup…
Continue readingUsing Assessment Tools, Like StrengthsFinder, In Your Business
One of the most helpful tools we’ve used for our workplace is the Gallup-backed StrengthsFinder.com assessment tool to understand each of our team member’s unique and natural strengths.…
Continue reading8 Similar Principles Between Business and Software Development
Here’s a followup of my Your Business is Like Software post. It was too long to put there, so here are 8 things I find remarkably similar between…
Continue readingYour Business Is Like Software
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…
Continue reading5 Heretical Tips for Entreprenuerial-Minded Designers
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,…
Continue reading6 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…
Continue readingIs 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…
Continue readingNew 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…
Continue readingSell 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…
Continue readingLearning Your Way Around the World of Venture Capital
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…
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