As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting less and less lately as we get close to launching the new Detailed Image. Short of an unexpected disaster, we’re planning to roll out the new site next Friday, May 1, around 6 AM Eastern Time. Until then, I’ll be on a hiatus from blogging as we [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Do Consumers Expect too Much?
A while back I signed up for a KODAK Gallery Account to view a friends photos. Otherwise though, I’ve never used it. Then the other day there was an email in my inbox entitled “Important: From the Gallery’s General Manager”. Curious, I opened it. In part, it read (bolding is my emphasis):
Let’s put [...]
Celebrating Our Success
In this day and age, where nothing is easy, we’ve accomplished a great deal as a business over the past few years. Last month we hit several milestones sooner than we had anticipated. One of the things I love about our company is that whenever we’re at a meeting and we’re discussing something big that [...]
Pure Adapt Featured on the AMEX Plum Site
About a year ago I wrote a post about how cool the American Express Plum Card is for small businesses. I also posted a picture of how the Pure Adapt card was shown among many others on their website at the time:
After my subsequent post about how we saved $1k in FedEx charges with the [...]
Unique Uses for IVR Systems
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that everyone dislikes IVR phone systems. When you call a company you want to talk to a real person, not be led through a bunch of menus that don’t answer your question…especially when you have to speak your answers and the system can’t interpret what you’re saying [...]
Where to Get Support as a YE
Dale left a comment on my post yesterday that reminded me how tough it is to find support as a young entrepreneur. No matter where you live or what you do, the majority of people around you don’t run a business. Most of them have never even considered it. That makes it hard for them [...]
Caring More About Your Business than Yourself
This is sort of an addendum to the last post from a little while ago.
Running a business also teaches you a selflessness that translates great to other aspects of life. Not paying yourself so that you can expand. Taking less pay so that you can hire an employee. Living with your parents or in a [...]
Entrepreneurship is a Life Question
Jim Collins, author of one of my favorite business books, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, was interviewed in the 30th Anniversary Issue of Inc. Magazine last month. The entire article is a good read, but one question in particular stood out to me:
How do you define entrepreneurship?
I take [...]
Getting close…
We turned a major corner this month. While I had my head in the sand focusing on wrapping up programming for our new cart, we had our largest revenue month…by a cool 33% more than our previous best! I didn’t even realize it until George read the revenue number out loud the other day and [...]
Does Location Matter? Why Albany is Perfect for Us
A few weeks back Penelope Trunk wrote a really interesting article about deciding where to locate your start-up, entitled Starting a company in Silicon Valley is stupid. Clearly from the title of the post, she isn’t one of those people that preaches that you have to be in the Valley or in NYC to run [...]
