I’m in the middle of working on a major revamp for SportsLizard. As of a few months ago this wasn’t in our plans, but the major failures of new sites by industry incumbents Beckett and Tuff Stuff, combined with the urging of a few SportsLizard “fans”, inspired us to reconsider the opportunity at hand to [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Partnership Family Values
It seems to be a pretty popular assumption that running a business will tear your family apart. The two compete for time with each other, your family always getting jealous of your commitment to your company, and you becoming bitter that your family doesn’t understand and support you. We’ve all heard the argument before. In [...]
Entrepreneurial Book Review Bonanza
This Summer I’ve read five books that I have intended to review on this blog. Other than writing the review for bounce! I’ve managed to neglect the rest. Call it laziness…or better yet call it prioritizing, since book reviews do take some time and lately my time is better spent growing our business. Regardless of [...]
Peace Out Men’s Health
I’ve had a subscription to Men’s Health Magazine dating back to 1999, my junior year in high school. Throughout college and into my early professional years I found the magazine and books they produced to be an invaluable resource on health and fitness. However, maybe it’s because I’ve had a subscription for so long, or [...]
Micro Blog Security Fix
Ever since I wrote the post a few weeks back about our internal micro blogging system (see Using WordPress to Make a Secure Twitter for Business) I’ve been bothered by the fact that it isn’t really as secure as it should be. Following the steps I provided, there is still one unprotected RSS feed that [...]
Making Email Efficient
According to Tim Ferriss:
E-mail (and all of its Crackberry/digital leash/Twitter cousins) is the largest single interruption in modern life. In a digital world, creating time therefore hinges on minimizing e-mail.
How bad is it really? A Loughborough University study “found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after [...]
Google Chrome Initial Thoughts – WOW
When I woke up today and combed through my morning email I was shocked to see that yesterday Google announced that they would be releasing a browser today. Usually these things leak out sooner, but I hadn’t heard anything other than the same type of vague rumors that you hear about a gPhone or gOS.
Google Chrome, [...]
