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Hi. My name is Adam. I am the co-founder of Pure Adapt, Inc in Albany, NY. We own Detailed Image, LockerPulse, and a bunch of other websites. I write about our company, entrepreneurship in general, work-life balance, and whatever else interests me.
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
There’s No Replacement for Hard Work
Mark Cuban is doing something awesome. He started The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan – Open Source Funding, where he has decided to help stimulate the economy by investing in ideas and companies that he believes in. He’s still accepting requests via comments on that original post (almost 2k comments and counting!), but today he unveiled some of the first companies that are getting money from him. While I LOVE the idea and hope to someday be able to emulate it myself, I found the first part of his post today more interesting. He mentions that he’s learned 2 things by … Continue reading
Will Twitter Replace…
No. The answer is no. Twitter won’t replace blogging or anything else. It is it’s own medium, one which I recently found was very helpful and decided was worth my time. But the idea that it will replace blogs is a little crazy in my opinion. Just like it’s crazy to think that blogs replace a well-researched newspaper or magazine article, or that the same article could ever replace a book. A tweet takes 60 seconds to write well, a blog post takes 30 minutes, an article takes a few weeks, and a book takes years. Twitter is the ultimate … Continue reading
Job Security?
Way back in March of 2006, two months after quitting my job, I wrote about the myth of job security while commenting on an interesting article from Entrepreneur.com about business “urban legends”: Myth #2: You’ll Miss the Security of a Job My initial reaction to this one is the exact opposite of the first myth – NO WAY do I miss the “security” of a job. I have always made the argument that it’s MORE SECURE to run your own business. Jeffrey Henning, co-founder of Perseus Development Corp, says it perfectly in the article “When I quit my job, people … Continue reading