Entrepreneurship

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…

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…