Over the years we’ve had numerous part-time workers, both in the warehouse and contracted workers doing various web stuff, but today was the first day that we had a full-time, salaried employee. The position is warehouse manager, and the guy is Charlie, who has been with us on a part-time basis for just about year [...]
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What Would You Say You Do Here?
That’s one of my all-time favorite lines from Office Space. Cracks me up every time I see it. John C. McGinley delivers it perfectly. What do I do? I get asked that question by a lot of people. I’ve written before that it’s not exactly my favorite thing to talk about, mostly because so few [...]
Why Continuous Learning is Important
I think one of the key indicators of whether you chose the right career is your level of passion to continue to learn and evolve as things change. Case in point, for the past month or two Mike and I have been obsessed with learning CSS3 and HTML5, both of which are becoming more and [...]
The Idea Chart
About once every year I find myself re-reading Getting Real, the first book by 37Signals from 2006 about their software development process. There’s so much good stuff in there. I could probably do multiple posts on each chapter. Anyway, one thing that caught my eye when I was flipping through recently was this “idea chart” [...]
How Do You Find Good Partners? Try Before You Buy
One of the most frequent questions I get from people is “how did you meet your partners?”, followed by “what is a good way for me to meet partners?” and “how do I avoid picking the partner from hell?” In my What Startups Are Really Like essay I touched on this a bit: How do [...]
Is This a Smart Way to Get Funding? No. Absolutely Not.
I’ve finally gotten around to reading the May 2010 issue of Inc. Magazine. I couldn’t believe what I was reading the other night when I read the article Is This a Smart Way to Get Funding?. Essentially three kids out of college are selling a percentage of their future earnings for cash now: Erickson and [...]
Bon Voyage Mike
(That means “good trip Mike”, for everyone not well versed in Francais) This morning Mike departed with his family for a month-long voyage through China. It will most certainly be one of those “once in a lifetime” experiences for him. I can’t wait to see all of the pictures and hear about everything they did. [...]
Getting Back on Track Post-Launch
In a lot of ways, it’s easier for me to approach life as a whole while I’m developing a large project like LockerPulse or the new Detailed Image last year or Tastefully Driven the year before. I tend to have a very narrow focus. I don’t think much past launch date. I want to work [...]
The Next Evolution of the Incubator?
We’ve all heard of coworking (shared office environments) and early stage seed venture funds like Y Combinator. After reading the Fast Cities 2010 article in this month’s Fast Company Magazine, I got an idea to mix the two and take them a step further: early-stage work-live programs. In Boston, there are work-live buildings for artists [...]
Self Sabotaging Your Product Launch
My good friend and fellow entrepreneur Tim left a really good comment on my last post. Here’s an interesting excerpt: No matter what the data says you ALWAYS have doubt and the doubt increases significantly the closer you get to launch – a fear of the unknown is only natural. What makes this even more [...]
