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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: Work Ethic
If I Had To Start Over…
Let’s just say hypothetically that Pure Adapt fell apart tomorrow and we lost everything and I was left with nothing. What would I do? First things first – if you know me, you know the absolute last thing I’d ever do is get a job. So how would I build a company? Mark Cuban wrote a great post yesterday entitled The Best Equity is Sweat Equity: There are only two reasonable sources of capital for startup entrepreneurs, your own pocket and your customers pockets. I personally would never even take money from a family member. Could you imagine the eternal … Continue reading
Being in Control of Your Day
One of the biggest things I’ve been focusing on lately to eliminate the guilt factor is controlling my day. As Christmas and New Years approach, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate through my day so that I see all of my family members, attend celebrations, buy gifts, etc while still trying to get some work done and have time for the gym. Unfortunately it’s not usually an option for most young business owners to just step away for two weeks. We’ve got to deal with the normal challenges of balancing life with business, while also giving appropriate attention to the … 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
What I Actually Do All Day
One of the primary goals of this blog is to give people a peek into the life of someone who decided to work for themselves instead of pursuing a corporate career. Back in college I wish I knew that running my own business was a career option. And if I did know it was an option, I would have had a million questions for someone who was 25 and ran their own online business. For most people, their entire life is structured for them – school, college, and work dictate what time they wake up and what they spend the … 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