Archive for 2011

Working on your business, or working in your business, is as distinct and as different as laughing with, or being laughed at.

If your SaaS MVP is any more complex than “plants eat sun and shit air” then it is not an MVP you are building.

Don’t neglect your loyal clients and customers just because one squeaky wheel customer is demanding you give them attention. Some days you just have to cut your losses, tell the squeaker, “your business is not welcome here” and move on. It will actually do your bottom line a world of good in the long run,…

For me to hate you means I first have to care about you.

I send emails out late at night so that people have them when they arrive to work in the morning. By the time the recipient have thought about the email and responded, I’ve had a good night’s rest and can pick up where I left off. For me, the perception is that it shortens the…

Medical triage is used to handle the urgent, the necessary and then everything else. Because when it comes to life or death, you really should deal with the urgent first. But in a non-life or death situation, in your personal life, or in business, traditional triage methods break down. They don’t work. We end up…

My entire family probably believes I’m dead because I don’t have a Facebook account.

If you are expecting a Jerry McGuire moment in your career, your startup, your creative production, I have to let you know, there isn’t one. There is no “big break” where everything changes on a single decision except for infinitesimally small portion of the population that would be considered a rounding error in every statistics…