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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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Category Archives: Ageism
What do you DO?
Ah, my favorite question. Nev wrote a great post about it the other day. Saying “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a teacher” is a whole lot easier than saying “I run a web development company with three other twenty-somethings and we own a lot of websites with the majority of our revenue coming from our e-commerce websites which we run from a warehouse in Guilderland, NY”. IF I ever actually said that, I’d get a really perplexed look followed by about fifty questions. In general, when I’m out in a social situation I really don’t want to have a long … Continue reading
Lease Negotiations Suck
In moving back and forth for several internships during college and then my job after college, I’ve lived in quite a few different places from anywhere from three months to a year. In doing so, I’ve looked at a lot of apartments and become accustomed to the relatively pain-free process of leasing an apartment. I always figured leasing business space would be the same. I was wrong. Following our debacle a few months ago, we were pretty certain we found a great place for us a few weeks ago. It’s a short commute, it’s a brand new facility (meaning we … Continue reading
Does Our Generation Have an Undeserved Sense of Entitlement?
Preface: My mission with the blog is to try to get more young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice, because I know it is possible and my partners and I are living proof of it. I definitely definitely am not advocating that a sense of entitlement is a good thing for anyone of any age. From all of the nasty emails I’ve received related to this post I completely realize I did a horrible job of getting that point across. At the time I wrote this post I was pretty fired up. That said, I’ve decided to … Continue reading