If you find yourself contemplating a LEAP of faith today, whether it be leaving the 9-5, taking your business in a new direction or simply moving somewhere to see what happens, ask yourself one question: “other than fear, what is keeping me from taking a leap today?” Chances are, the answer is nothing, and the [...]
As for what this all means, I’m still trying to figure that out. I abandoned seven long-held principles about business and software engineering, and nothing terrible happened. Have I been too cautious in the past? Perhaps I was willing to be a little reckless because this was just a side project for me and not [...]
Rusty taught me something cool today.
We were talking about the generational gap in information retrieval methods, and he explained that our generation (those of us in our mid 20’s) sees the internet as our main source of knowledge. This knowledge is both created and shared by all of us together, whether professional or amateur. (Seems about [...]
What’s the point of your project? Of your company? Of getting out of bed today?
If your company were to disappear, would anyone notice? Would someone get upset? What is the one thing at the very core that makes what you’re doing worth the blood, sweat, and passion you’re putting into it?
And I don’t think it [...]
As Gary V says in the video above: Big dreams are a dime a dozen, perpetually on sale, in readily available in the free-bin at Salvation Army.
The small accomplishments, the baby steps, the tiny victories… those are the unsung, unsexy heroes. And consequently, those are the steps to the dreams.
(Gary’s blog is worth checking out.)
Jason Calacanis cites hating as one of the reason’s he no longer blogs. How sad.
There are two ways to look at your competition. They’re either your sworn enemies, in which case you probably see your market as only large enough for one of you.
Or, they can be avenues for your own expansion and a potential [...]
Our world gives a lot of props to dynamic companies who change with the times, diversify, and remain small.
The ability to change, whether tweaking your direction or changing your market (Nokia didn’t begin a telecommunication company), is much heralded and for the most part this is a good thing. Detroit knows all too well the [...]
It might be a daily struggle for you to publish that next blog post, put that sales page online, or commit those app changes.
“Just one more tweak, and then we’ll go live.”
What if you didn’t need that tweak? What if your opinion didn’t matter.
There is no progress without struggle, but why confine the struggle to [...]
1. People DO NOT like to wait for the product they just bought - they want it yesterday.
When they buy it, then want it NOW. When they email you, they want the answer NOW (it doesn’t matter if there is 1 of you and 100 of them). When a client needs you to update the [...]
The first step is to understand you may or may not have a legacy.
The worst option is probably legacy-less, but let’s assume you’re driven by a higher purpose. This is crucial for yourself as well as your organizational pursuits. It must be defined clearly and definitively. Money and resources limitations have no place here; you [...]