One of my favorite parts about running my own business is the creative freedom. In school and at my job, the rules were set by other people. The majority of the creative thinking I did was trying to figure out how to alter the rules in my favor. For the most part though, once you [...]
Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
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 [...]
Bootstrap Yourself
While we’re on the topic of Mark Cuban posts, there was something else I wanted to comment on from that same post. As he often does, he included a “classic” Mark Cuban post at the bottom of his current post. In this case it was a post from earlier this year entitled The Best Equity [...]
The Time is Now
I’m a firm believer that crisis is what drives innovation and change. It’s a lot harder to be motivated to do great things when you’re living comfortably than it is when your back is up against the wall. As crazy as it sounds, creativity seems to flourish with minimal resources. The world-changing companies of our [...]
Sex vs. Changing the World
One of my huge pet peeves is when someone is in a difficult situation and they whine and complain about it, but proceed to do nothing to change the situation. Usually this comes in two flavors - relationships and jobs – although it really can apply to anything. It drives me nuts. If you don’t [...]
How Our Energy Problems Will Be Solved
The other day I went to the pump and filled up my 2008 VW Rabbit. With gas in my neck of the woods well over $4/gallon, it cost me nearly $60 to fill up my 14.5 gallon tank. $60! Dude, I drive a freaking Rabbit! It’s like the smallest car ever. It might not happen [...]
More on Micro-Innovating
A few months back I wrote a post entitled Micro-Innovating Every Day: Ideas are a very, very small part of the majority of great innovations. Most great innovations come from a recognition of a recurring problem that a company encounters repeatedly and has the foresight to come up with a creative solution. It’s less about [...]
Productive Output: What the 9 – 5 Misses and Why I’m Done with a 40 Hour Workweek
As any college student will tell you, scheduling classes is an art form. My first semester I didn’t have much choice and had to take whatever was available. My second semester I loaded up on Monday and Thursday and had the rest of the week off. It sucked – Mondays and Thursdays wore me out [...]
Becoming a Web Based Company
Lately I’ve been realizing just how fast technology changes. In December I wrote an article about our company embracing the open source software alternatives: So we came up with a plan. We would have a set of desktop workstations (one to start) that have the full Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (the $2,500 one) and [...]
My Top 10 Favorite Tastefully Driven Features
Since the launch of Tastefully Driven I’ve been intending to do a post similar to the DI Features and Lessons Learned. But since this project had less “unknowns” there weren’t a lot of “lessons learned” from the programming side. We knew what we needed to do, and it was more about execution than figuring out [...]
