Skatin' on Thin Ice Buildin' Business & Makin' Trouble

22Dec/100

Holiday Pause on Yard Sale Interviews

This week's observation: getting interviews with folks is tough. I'm not sure what the exact take away is from this observation yet, but I have three hypothesis. Here there are, and how I'll test them: It may be a "holiday season" thing. To test this, I'll postpone the search for new interview candidates until after Jan 10 [...]
15Dec/101

Do We Have a Problem? I Sure Hope So

I already have a company, with some very important and exciting challenges. But a girl needs to have some fun too! So here goes. Since I believe we have the ability to make our own luck AND I'd like to have some fun AND I've recently had to furnish an entire house, here's a problem I'd [...]
16May/100

How to Get Funding for an Idea?

Be a tall, athletic Stanford-graduate male. Otherwise, you'll need more than an idea - you'll need product/market fit. I'm a short, geeky female with a degree from an east-coast art school. Looks like I'll have to build a highly valuable company in order to get some VC love :) I'm up for the challenge, how about you? Actually, I [...]
11May/105

Touchpoints When Preparing a Release

Ok, so you've written the code. You've tested, retested, run the beta, rewritten and retested again and again. It's as perfect as it's going to get so you're ready for production. Right? Wrong. Let's take yesterday's release over at Passpack for example. It was mostly a bundle of fixes and couple of minor features - nothing milestone. [...]
6Apr/106

Wonderful Content for Entrepreneurs

Came across this incredible resource in my daily web travels: Kutztown Small Business Development Center. I haven't sampled any of the courses from this collection of free online learning programs yet, but looks like some good weekend reading. On-Demand Online Learning Programs We have over 90 Online Learning Programs. We are constantly adding more programs. This is one of the largest [...]