Sean Tierney is writing a 32 part series on the book “Founders at Work” , so far the first 2 parts are available at grid7. I have not read the book yet, but intended to. Sean read for us, and is giving us his cliff notes, saving us time. Sure Sean will take different things …
I just quietly launched dailyhoopla.com. The premise is Big News from Small Agencies. By aggregating news/press in one location for locally based web firms, the local newspaper guy covering the tech beat only needs to go to one place to find the latest, coolest stuff in his own backyard.
Sean Tierney, a good friend and fellow entrepreneur invited me to sit down for one of his ongoing series of Venturecast interviews last week. The podcast of our conversation is now online at grid7.com. Thanks to Sean for the opportunity.
Are you a Skull? If you were, you couldn’t say cause we would dip you in hot oil. Seriously, I put together a little monthly lunch roundtable for Phoenix Web/Tech industry CEO’s called the Phoenix Skulls. There is so much work out there, and we all benefit by helping each other.. Ritz, design a logo …
No really, the more I look at it the more it like it. It just makes sense: an elegant solution for a business problem. Scenario: You own a web shop and you get the calls from clients with big dreams and no cash. You refer them to some Joe freelancer. What do you get, squat. …
Here is an idea I am putting out there: Think awesome social experiment. American Idol style text voting for US president. Set up a twitter like service and allow anyone to vote (1) time for the 2008 US president election. Prior to the election you let people vote on questions like “If the election was …
703 is a made up number, but about a 2.5 years ago my wife and I thought it would be a good idea to create a low-cost website solution for small businesses that could not afford the high end services of ObuWeb. Not a new concept. About a year ago my firm started using wordpress …
Whats the biggest mistake I made when starting my business, or as I would say it, greatest lesson learned? At Last Month’s First Annual Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference I was asked that question. Here’s my answer. (I am the second interviewee, the handsome fellow.) Hire slow, fire fast.
My business (obuweb) is turning 3 years old in September. 3 years is a bit of milestone for business, as the stats seem to suggest most companies do not make it this far. Was it easy, no. Was it fun, hell ya. Would I do it again, you bet your ass. Where did I start? …
Last night James Archer held a moderated Q&A on business start-ups or what i cal:Entrepreneur’isms. While most of the discussion focused on the nuts and bolts of a business, taxes, health insurance, employee management etc.. very little was discussed about the psychology of a successful enterpreneur. I did pipe in shortly about it. The bottom …