Technology Will Not Run Your Business for You
We now have more tech applications than ever before, why hasn't our life become easier? Twenty years ago someone would have laughed at you if you told them the last thing you'd like to do with a cellphone is receive a phone call. The cellphone was an industry-breaker when it was introduced to the market. For years it competed with traditional phones, pagers, even just faxing. Email and IM's and every other single piece of communicationbrought to the market since have created a market of diversified interest and -... Read More
Monday October 11, 2021
How to write a Business Plan in 3 Steps
You need a Business Plan Right? I mean it sounds like the kind of thing not having would be like admitting you aren't qualified to sart a business. I mean, you're going to start a business. Without a plan? Whiteboards look cool but are really inefficient. Tim Proctor and Craig Lysen Are pair of easy-going Vets who spend days on their program Check Your Six chatting about the Grind of business ownership. For about a year now, they've been out to prove when it comes to starting, owning and operating a... Read More
Friday September 3, 2021
The Best (and Hardest) Parts of Owning a Business - Luis Arias of CakeMakersStudio
If you're wondering how to start a business when you don't know what to do, Luis Arias of CakeMakersStudio has some advice for you. I'm standing in a kitchen Where Luis Arias is delicately massaging sheets of perfectly chilled, sculpted sugar onto a layer of finely baked white chocolate cake laid out in the form of the Millennium Falcon. His pace is deliberate and methodical, he's focused and calm. He's placing every piece, sculpted well in advance, onto the siding of the Falcon with no guide or video tuturial pulled up in front... Read More
Friday August 27, 2021
The Advice Professionals would give their Younger Selves
LinkedIn Recently collected Business Owners Advice to their Younger Selves And it became a treasure trove of interesting and helpful advice with answers ranging from practical and functional to humurous and sincere. Yet from among them all (or contained within a bulleted list) one answer stood repeated among the others. Words varied on the most popular advice: Don't focus on the "What if's", "Steer Clear of limiting beliefs", "Don't think too much" - the message was the same: Work is done in action, not in thought. ... Read More
Friday August 6, 2021
5 Life Lessons from Running a Software Company
This is a big one. No flashy intros, let's get right into it. 1. It's not always the big things that will nickel and dime you. Running a business is expensive . Which is ironic when you consider most companies work for profit. Whatever profit model, whatever practice, business building is a high-market, high-investment endeavor. If it isn't capital it's labor, if it isn't labor it's design, if it isn't design it's finance, around and around. The costliest thing in business is just being out of your zone. I mean... Read More
Friday May 28, 2021
Hiring in 2021 has Changed
So you're ready to Hire Someone That's great! No really, we mean it . Employees are the backbone of your business and bringing your first on is a huge milestone. Ideally at this point, you will have created written processes for your company so you will be ready with exactly what you want to delegate to your new staff. So now all that's left is to make a job listing, look at some resumes and pick the right candidate, right? Well, maybe not. Modern Employees have New Priorities Even different from what they had only just a... Read More
Friday April 30, 2021
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