In the most recent Inc. Magazine, Norm Brodsky used his Street Smarts column to answer a few reader questions. One in particular caught my interest: Dear Norm: I am 17 years old and recently sold a website for $100,000. It took me and my partners eight months to build, and we had to overcome many [...]
Archive for the ‘Sacrifice’ Category
Trimming the Fat
Since we made the decision last week to launch our revamped Detailed Image by early April, I have been programming my brains out. I’ve probably worked more hours in the last two weeks than I have in any two week stretch since 2007. While there’s definitely some stress involved with that, there is also a [...]
There’s No Replacement for Hard Work
Mark Cuban is doing something awesome. He started The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan – Open Source Funding, where he has decided to help stimulate the economy by investing in ideas and companies that he believes in. He’s still accepting requests via comments on that original post (almost 2k comments and counting!), but today he unveiled [...]
A Wacky End to ’08
It was New Year’s Eve. Mike, George, and I would normally be out at a party, but because we were all sick and the weather sucked, we all were home resting. Around 8 PM I woke up from a nap and made my way over to my computer to read my feeds, when I noticed [...]
Prioritizing Work – Part Deux
Oke from Life is What You Make of It (one of my favorite blog designs, by the way) left a really interesting comment on my last post about prioritizing work: I got a question for you. I am having a problem with this myself and do a shitty job on getting back on track. How [...]
What I Do on the Weekend
No question the most interesting statement from the interview I posted earlier today with Jun Loayza was when he said: “As a young entrepreneur, you will have NO work/life balance. I am very serious about this. If you want to succeed, you need to be working 24/7 every day of the week.” That’s why I [...]
You Don’t Have to Worry About That!
Anyone who owns a business like ours has been there. You’ve just met a new group of people and they casually ask what you do for a living. You give one of a variety of answers, based upon how web-savvy the crowd is and how interested you are in talking about your business at the [...]
Productive Output Update
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my productive output post where I declared that I would never work more than 35 hours in a week again (see Productive Output: What the 9-5 Misses and Why I’m Done with a 40 Hour Workweek). It was only two months ago, but a lot has changed since [...]
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 [...]
8th Grade Graduation
Tonight my little sister Jenna graduated from 8th grade. I accompanied her and my parents to the ceremony held at the high school that I graduated from back in 2000. Being twelve years apart with no siblings in between, I always feel like there’s a huge gap between my generation and her generation. In reality, [...]
