In this post, I am discussing hiding your blog with a pseudonym… not your illegal downloading activities.
95% of my blogging friends disguise their blogs so people can’t figure out who they are by just looking at the blogs, nor can people Google them and find the blogs. People generally disguise their blogs because they think family & friends will judge them or that their boss will fire them. … read more “Disguising Your Online Identity is Pointless”
Building a successful business involves iterating through lots of ideas for products and services. Minimum Viable Product is a term that refers to only doing the smallest amount necessary to get something into the marketplace that will tell you if people like the idea or not. Usually this is far smaller than you expect it to be. … read more “Minimum Viable Product”
I wonder what rabbit meat tastes like… … read more “Joel’s Special Heroes: Rabbit Food”
So you have come up with the next Google/Facebook/Mint website and you think you are going to make a fortune on it?
Maybe you will, but if you are a wise entrepreneur you will test out your business idea first. Why?
Testing your business idea before dedicating your nest egg and years of sweat, blood and tears to it is ABSOLUTELY necessary!… read more “How To Test Your Business Idea”
Nick and I were talking today about our home loans website and discussing the fact that 2/3 of the people who use the contact form or call the phone number on it do not have good enough credit scores to get a home loan.
We were losing money on all these people who called in and were quite annoyed that we had to deal with them, when we realized that there is a whole industry of businesspeople out there who would love to talk with exactly the people we didn’t want:
Credit repair companies. … read more “Make More Money on Your Leads”
I am thinking about putting a lot of work/money into a new business idea and before I do, I really need to get some feedback on my basic hypotheses. The idea is to build an web application that helps people to track their productivity and make it into a scoreable game so they can compete against themselves to get better. … read more “Readers- Your Feedback is Needed!”
The Anvil! movie is about a band of men who’ve hung on to their dream to become rockstars for many years despite never having had much success. They are so old and desperate and sad. I really like their positive attitude and unfailing belief in the face of very little success for many many years though.… read more “Anvil! Movie”
Starting a business and operating a business are profoundly difficult activities with no government regulations, but with them it becomes nearly impossible to do everything correctly. I have firsthand experience with the difficult & confusing government regulations on entrepreneurs.
Entrenched bureaucracies like the Washington State Department of Revenue and the Washington State Secretary of State’s office do not have to answer to anyone and extremely tough to figure out what forms to file, when to file them and even how to submit them. … read more “Government Regulations Crushing Entrepreneurs”
My poor roommate Trent has some difficulties understanding the rules of the game of basketball. In order to help him further his education, I have decided to repost a few rules of basketball here:
During a show at Seaworld yesterday entitled “Dine with Shamu”, where park guests can have dinner and watch a whale show up close, a whale named Tilikum purposely drowned a female trainer.
Tilikum is an 11,000 pound killer whale and people watching the show said he was not following commands and after becoming more agitated, swam around the tank and leapt out of the water to grab her in its mouth and dragged her into the water.… read more “Dine With Shamu – LITERALLY!”