Last year I attended a conference in Seattle where 4 local business celebs had an open forum to discuss small business and the lessons they have learned over the years.  They were Mike O’Brien of O’Brien Auto Group, radio personality Bob Rivers, Flip This House creator Richard Davis, and Schick Shadel’s Pat O’Day. Here are [...]

It seems to happen on a daily basis lately. Usually in the second half of the work day, I will get stuck on something and progressively “spin my wheels”, not able to solve the problem and getting really frustrated and flustered.  When this happens, I typically get into “grind mode” and really dig in.  And [...]

Sunny was the keynote speaker at Seattle’s Entrepreneur University in 2007 and she blew me away.  Not just what she said, which I’ve summarized below, but also her positive, go-gettum, no nonsense attitude really resonated with me.  I like her style of “get off your butt and go figure it out” and not just throw [...]

Last week I bought an inkjet refill kit for $10.  The idea was to save money by reusing my inket printer cartridges instead of purchasing new ones.  Over a year or so I was expecting to save around $100. The process for refilling the spent cartridge wasn’t too compicated but a bit messy.  I followed [...]

Think of what it’s like when you are sorting through your mail (actual mail, not email).  Surely there will be some junk mail, flyers, etc.  How much time do you give each of these unsolicited items?  1-2 seconds, right? When I decided to start a website design business in 2004 my first marketing effort was [...]

I’m recovering from the past three days which were completely committed to Startup Weekend Seattle. This is an event where a bunch of locals get together and startup an actual company in one weekend. This idea was created just 7 months ago by Andrew Hyde from Boulder, CO, a very cool cat with big ideas, [...]

For the first time ever, I visited eharmony.com tonight after catching one of their TV commercials. Being a website developer by trade, I enjoy browsing popular websites to see if there’s any good lessons to learn. In this case, I found a couple of good lessons: Lesson #1: Double-check your math. The last time I [...]