Entrepreneurship
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Lately I’ve been using a metaphor about rowing boats to illustrate how each person on our team must add value or be removed from the team. (Please know I don’t take letting someone go lightly. I’ve had to do it several times at iThemes, but it’s always a hard, and often emotional decision and one…
As an entrepreneur almost every week you’re faced with an opportunity to do things the right way. Money and revenue allow our business to stay going and the lights on and our health insurance paid and all those fun things that let us do passionate, purposeful work. But oftentimes when we’re scraping to get to…
Fear is indeed a great motivator sometimes. Today, I thought about some of the things we’re trying to do with our business – from hiring 6+ new people in the last couple of months to starting a nonprofit foundation after just being in business for 3.5 years. And I had to ask myself this question:…
Here’s the recording of my IgniteOKC lightning talk on why work shouldn’t be a four-letter word: Here are my slides: Your Work Shouldn't Suck View more presentations from Cory Miller.
Here’s my recent lightning talk at WordCamp Phoenix called How the Roller Coaster Ride of Entrepreneurship and Not Throw Up:
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.
A good friend of mine recently asked for some tips on doing a presentation for the first time. And I’ve been giving more and more “talks” and presentations in various formats, I wanted to share some of the tips I’ve picked up doing public speaking. Here are 9 tips for giving rockin’ cool presentations: Be…
In this new StartupSofa training event, I wanted to offer our blueprint for starting online, digital products businesses, based on our three years of experiences starting one at iThemes. Below you’ll find the video recording, an MP3 audio download and the slides. Here are some of the things I covered: Intro: The Bootstrapped Online Startup…
In January 2008, when I founded iThemes in my home, I didn’t originally intend to build a local office like we have now. I was just fine working from home and having a remote team scattered throughout the world. But one of our first team members we brought on was local to me and specifically…
In this video Matt Danner from iThemes gives an overview of our 2,400 sq. ft. office located in Edmond, Oklahoma, a northern suburb of Oklahoma City. Matt was instrumental in helping us design a workspace we’re all proud of. Needless to say it’s not finished and it’s the v. 4 of our iThemes Office. (Yes,…