The following post is the story of how I built and sold one of my businesses. I hope that it is helpful to other entrepreneurs, and I will be happy to answer any questions you might have in the comments section below.
I created a side business with my friend Josh from UW Seattle business school in June of 2008.… read more “How I Built & Sold My Dropshipping Biz for $16,100”
Warren Buffet’s most highly recommended investment book is “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffet’s essays and philosophy on investing sound like the best way to invest to me, so I use his value based approach. Warren Buffet advocates that you keep in mind that underlying each stock is an actual business with a true actual valuation.… read more “Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor””
Laurel has been in NYC for the last couple of days and won’t fly back till the 4th of July. It has been a bit lonely without her. I have been working more hours and then playing Rocket League at home at night. Looking forward to her return!
My company, Coalitiontechnologies.com, now does 3 months of work every day. Our team of 60+ puts in nearly 500 hours of work each day.
Motivation seems to ebb and flow randomly. I would really like to develop a better understanding of how to build up consistent motivation and maintain it. A few influencing factors I’ve noticed on my motivation are:
General advice from the internet suggests:
Over the last seven years, I have been trying to build the very best SEO services company in Los Angeles. We follow all of Google’s best practices. We get epic results for our clients through creative marketing methods. We have very positive reviews from our customers in general.
I woke up this morning at 6 am with the intention of working on building out phpunit testing for my recruiting application. 2 hours later I finally find myself at my computer after having surfed the internet on my phone in bed all morning. Reddit, Nytimes, Hacker news, Facebook…. they suck you in and don’t let you go!
Uploading videos to Youtube is a nightmare through their API. All of the videos have to first be uploaded to your server to a temporary directory, then you can upload them to Youtube itself. The problem is that large videos can cause out of memory errors or timeout errors or cause your server itself to bog down.… read more “Video Uploads”
I have been eating more unhealthy foods recently. On Father’s Day, I had a steak with butter and a beer. At Disneyland, I had a Churro. Last week I ate mochi ice cream, and a few other unhealthy foods.
I told myself each time that it was no big deal since I workout a lot and generally eat healthy.… read more “The Lure of Unhealthy Food”
When I worked as an employee at Visible Technologies, I thought to myself that if I ever owned a company that I would like to pay people based on actual work output rather than just for having their butt in a chair.
Now that I do run my own company, I have found this to be nearly impossible to do.… read more “Cost Per Unit of Productivity”