Now that the dust has settled a bit and everything seems to be going well with the new Detailed Image, I want to go back and dissect the project and discuss the major decisions we made and why we think they will help our business. A ton of things go on behind the scenes on [...]
Archive for the ‘Decision Making’ Category
Chargebacks: how we were taken for $6k and how we’re fighting back
This post has been a long time coming, but it’s one that I finally made sure I sat down and wrote because I’m sure it can save someone from getting scammed the way that we did. What is a chargeback? According to our good friend Wikipedia: A chargeback is the return of funds to a [...]
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 [...]
How to Know When to Scale
Two business owners. The first hasn’t had their first customer yet. He has spent countless hours and dollars on market research, developing and re-developing his website and logo, projecting revenues and costs, and developing procedures for future employees. He wants everything to go perfectly. The second is a seasoned business owner. He has been in [...]
Teamwork
We have a pretty stressful few months ahead of us. It’s not the same type of stress we had last year when we feared that one wrong move would crush us and eventually decided to not pay ourselves for a few months, but nonetheless it’s still a little more stress than anyone would like. We’ve [...]
The Good and the Bad
That was the view from my apartment earlier this afternoon. We’re in the midst of yet another big storm that will probably drop over a foot of snow and ice on us by tomorrow morning. If you asked me on Monday how I thought my Wednesday would go, I would have said I’d be up [...]
’08 Grade, ’09 Goal
While I was working on the time line the other night I began to notice that I wasn’t all that happy with what I accomplished for the business in ’08. Don’t get me wrong – we had a great year and I was super excited to see the growth laid out in numbers during our [...]
How to Prioritize Work
One of the hardest things to do as a business owner or aspiring business owner is prioritizing your work. If you’re anything like me, the ideas pour out faster than you can execute and you always end up staring at an endless task list. It can be very frustrating. From what I’ve seen, most people [...]
The New SportsLizard is FINALLY Done
Over the weekend I finally completed everything for the SportsLizard revamp I was working on. Yesterday I made the official announcement on the blog and sent out a newsletter. Now that I’ve had a few days to calm down from everything, I’m not really sure how I feel about it. Weird is the best word [...]
Growth and Time Management
If last year I started a project like this SportsLizard revamp that I’m working on now, it would have gone a lot differently. For one, it would have been programmed a lot worse and probably taken twice as many hours of work to get the same result. In my head I think that and say [...]
