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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: Sacrifice
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, there really isn’t. Much of what she goes through is the same as what I went through twelve years ago. Take tonight for an example: The principle gives a speech about reaching for your dreams, pursuing your passions, and striving to do something amazing. The … Continue reading
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 and the rest of the week I had to spend 10 hours doing homework. My third semester I put large gaps between my classes so I’d have time to get work done during the day, but all I did was bone around on ESPN.com and … Continue reading
Is it Really a Sacrifice?
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The word sacrifice is often associated with entrepreneurs. Young business owners like myself often get peppered with questions about making less money or living with their parents or spending less time at the bar with friends, all in the name of their company. As you get older you usually have to deal with paying a mortgage, balancing a marriage, and spending time with your kids. It’s easy to second guess your decision to start a company. One truth … Continue reading
The Difference Between Being 20 and 25
Every once in a while I have one of those moments where I say to myself “holy crap, I can’t believe this – I’m 25 years old and my partners and I run a company. We’ve built our own e-commerce platform and have our own warehouse, and we did it without giving up any stock or taking any outside money. I am living my dream.” It’s so easy to get caught up in the day to day crap that I forget that sometimes. Things are going good right now for us. We weathered the storm of all of the moving … Continue reading
Learning Resilience from Entrepreneurship
re·sil·ience (noun) – ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; I was on the “golden boy” path. The one that every mother understands and is proud to tell the world her son is on. I got good grades in school, got into a great college, continued to work hard, got several job offers prior to graduating, and landed an impressive job. At 22 my path seemed pretty certain: continue to work hard at job, get MBA, rise up through company (or jump from company to company) to VP level, retire. There really wasn’t much getting in … Continue reading
The Best Way to Raise Money? Don’t Pay Yourself
It’s the dirty little secret of running a business. I hear about it all the time, but rarely hear it publicized. It’s glossed over by Karen Northup of Corefino in this Churchill Club Video, and it’s mentioned by store owner Dan Fox in this article: founders of seemingly successful businesses who don’t take a penny of salary for themselves. The reasoning is quite simple: it’s expensive to run a business, and faced with the choice of paying themselves or furthering the business, most entrepreneurs will choose the latter 10 times out of 10. This past weekend we made a similar … Continue reading
The Perfect Kind of Busy
Up until about 2 weeks ago when we launched Faceup I had spent the previous 6 months or so on programming projects…not because I really wanted to do that much programming, but because I knew it was for the good of the company. So far, it’s paid off: SportsLizard is making good money without much work, Detailed Image has had it’s best month ever in October (traditionally the slowest month of the year) and most of that can be attributed to the new site, and we’re jam packed with clients for Faceup in only two weeks. Now I’m transitioning from … Continue reading
DI Up – Completely and Utterly Drained
Last night, after debugging from 9 AM to 9 PM we went to launch the new Detailed Image site, which has been a work in progress for all four of us the past 3 months or so. The first thing we did after uploading everything was test the redirects – which of course didn’t work. I’m no rookie when it comes to migrating sites and redirecting old pages to new ones – hell, I did it a week ago flawlessly with this blog! After exhausting our options until 2 AM and getting nowhere, we started again this morning and finally … Continue reading