Category: Advice

The Trouble With Protecting Special Interests

If you have a special interest in something, especially if it is your job, you will fight very hard to protect it.  Let’s say that some outside force threatens your job, which is the source of your income and livelihood and how you feed your family.  You’d fight to protect it right?  You might even ask the government to step in and provide some regulations and rules that would protect your job right?… read more “The Trouble With Protecting Special Interests”

Big Banks Squish Individual Lenders

The financial crisis which supposedly was going to get regulations through on big banks has done the opposite.  The powerful lobbyists at the big nationwide banks have changed rules so that individual residential lenders now must set their rates up front each month instead of setting it on a per deal basis.  Individual lenders must become certified in each state rather then nationwide like the banks are allowed to do.  … read more “Big Banks Squish Individual Lenders”

Reading About 25 Failed Startups

Here’s what I learned from reading about 25 failed startups (Thanks for the link Jordan http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/):

-make your product simple & easy as possible
-give immediate gratification (even if it is somewhat false)
-never recruit an “outside ceo”
-avoid hiring top execs without experience founding or running a company themselves
-control your expenses like a maniac
-ignore conventional wisdom, do what you think is best
-turn contractors to employees & demand nights & weekends
-you need an awesome awesome team of crazy smart hard workers working cheap
-iterate constantly to improve
-never ever quit
-dont get distracted by small problems/clients
-keep someone around to question my decisions, give feedback, counter decisions
-never bring on outside investors of any kind or give away any ownership or control
-don’t use technologies without significant technical adoption
-location of startup can influence success (go somewhere with startup culture, low costs, like silicon valley)
-paying customers are vital
-extensively research your ideas up front
-tackle market problems not technical problems
-build off open source when possible
-if highly skilled workers give birth to a product and lose control over its direction, they are likely to get frustrated and quit
-locating in a college town provides lower rent & low cost, smart & hungry workforce
-only build “needed” services/products, not “nice to have”
-recurring sales are better than one-off sales
-recognize when to pivot and do it hard & fast
-don’t do something you don’t love
-customer acquisition is most important thing, customer retention second most.
… read more “Reading About 25 Failed Startups”

Custom Web Design in Santa Monica

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Online Marketing in Venice Beach, CA

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Looking for some help from a Venice beach online marketing expert? Need to redesign your website to make it more appealing to your target audience? Do you want assistance in crafting internet ads and media-rich banners to lure in site visitors and convert more of them into customers? Maybe you’re looking to drive traffic to your bricks-and-mortar store in Venice Beach or some other defined community?… read more “Online Marketing in Venice Beach, CA”

E-Commerce Web Design- Hollywood, CA

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Do own a bricks-and-mortar retail store that you want to take online in order to grow your clientele and increase your market size? Maybe you already sell items online but you need an e-commerce overhaul to give your site more functionality in terms of online payments and shopping capabilities. Or, maybe you run a tourism and hospitality business that needs to develop a more stable and user-friendly booking engine to take reservations fill unused capacity.… read more “E-Commerce Web Design- Hollywood, CA”

Santa Monica Web Design Firm

Nestled in the technology and creative hub of the Santa Monica area, Coalition Technologies is a premier web design firm that specializes in upping the relevance and profitability of clients’ businesses and brands online.  Our experienced, professional team of digital designers, user experience experts, e-retail specialists and search engine optimization engineers tackles every aspect of creating and deploying easy-to-use, powerfully constructed, profit-generating website. … read more “Santa Monica Web Design Firm”

Connections

People aren’t just for “social networking” or climbing the corporate ladder or for amusing yourself.

If you allow yourself to connect with people you will find yourself a far happier, far more complete person.

Cutting yourself off from the world will make you a stunted and weird creature.