Coming off of last year’s successful holiday season, I’m really pumped for this year. We have two busy times of the year: spring time and the holidays. Spring is super busy because that’s when the weather starts to get nice and people start spending money on their cars. Detailed Image is the place to be. [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Hiring Within Your Network
Yesterday I spent my day training Charlie, our second part time warehouse employee. Like John, he picked everything up very quickly and by the end of the day was able to do 90% of the work without asking a question. And like with John, this is partly because he’s a very intelligent guy and partly [...]
What I Learned From Listening to 21 Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Podcasts
Over the past month or so I listened to 21 of the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts. I had heard they were great from a few people so I made a MP3 CD of all of the recent ones that intrigued me and left the CD in my car to listen to anytime I [...]
Worst Question Ever: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
I’m not really sure why they ask this question during interviews. The truth is, no one knows where they’ll be in 5 years. There are just too many variables that you as an individual cannot account for: the economy, tech innovation, the lives of your friends and family, and all of the other random twists [...]
One More Little Shipping Improvement
Oke had a good suggestion for our shipping estimate feature in the comments on yesterday’s shipping post: The only thing I will add is to also place the actual day with the date the package will get to the destination. In that case, people wouldn’t have to look at the calendar to see which day [...]
Our Exhaustive Shipping Project – What We Learned and What New Features We Added
Today we launched some really cool new shipping features on Detailed Image. They were a cumulation of about a month long shipping project that we took on. It was really the one big thing that we wanted to make sure that we got done before the holidays. Shipping options are just so important to customers [...]
Be Your Own Target Market
Totally unrelated to the topic of the post: I’m sitting in a coffee shop writing. I sat down next to the only available outlet, about three feet away from a middle-aged guy who’s on a Skype video chat. I’ve never rushed faster to boot up my computer and throw my headphones on. He’s all geared [...]
Simple Solutions to Simple Problems
If you’re a Windows user, do you ever use Notepad? If so, how often? My guess is that you use it and that you use it frequently. At least I know that my partners and I do. Why though? We all have Google Docs access. We all have Open Office Writer installed on our computer. [...]
