This blog is the blog formerly known as the “SportsLizard Entrepreneur Blog”. I started blogging in 2005, about 10 months after graduating college with an engineering degree. At the time I was 23 years old and had a great job as a Quality Control Engineer with a large consumer goods company. I also ran SportsLizard.com, a sports collectibles marketplace that I started in 2004 as a senior in college. A few months later, having just won Honorable Mention in the Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards for SportsLizard, I quit my job. I left the career I had spent years preparing for to pursue becoming an internet entrepreneur.
If all of that interests you and you find yourself saying “hey, that sounds like me” than I think you’ll find it valuable to go back to the archives from 2005 and see how I progressed personally and professionally as I ventured into unchartered waters.
Fast forward to now. It’s 2008 and I now am the co-founder (there are 4 of us) of Pure Adapt Inc, a web design, development , and marketing company located in Albany, NY. We still run SportsLizard, but we also do a slew of other things (check out our site if you’re curious), with our primary focus being on our two large e-commerce sites: Detailed Image and Tastefully Driven.
My mission with this blog is the same as it was in 2005 - to show people what it’s like to be a 23 (now 25) year old entrepreneur. With that comes quite a bit of social pressure that impacts my personal and professional life everyday, and by being brutally honest and candid in regard to my experiences I hope to dispel the myths surrounding young business owners and inspire more people to follow their passion.
If you ever want to contact me with questions, comments, ideas, or for any other reason, you can email me at adam [at] adam-mcfarland [dot] net and I’ll be happy to do my best to help.
Oh, and here’s a picture of me if the top of my head isn’t enough for you.:
