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55 Actions you can’t afford to stop or start in 2012

by Matt on December 31st, 2011

You can’t afford:

To stop…

1. Caring.

2. Innovating.

3. Focusing on delivery.

4. Understanding the real problems.

5. Producing quality work.

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We Are The 99% (Of Startups)

by Matt on November 18th, 2011

For the last year I’ve been running a company while building a software as a service product within the same ecosystem.

I listen to interviews on Mixergy and ThisWeekIn Startups that inspire me, educate me, and piss me off.

Why?

Because it seems that only the 1% in Silicon Valley are really going to make it big. What about the rest of us who don’t have the connections to get funded? Or live in big cities to recruit talent? Or a big exit under our belt?

Famous startups that have built strong companies in a grass root movement, without major funding, like 37Signals are the exception. Scratch that itch with your product while preparing to live and die by it.

These are the stories we all love – but are even harder to attain than the big valuation or investment startups.

It’s a double edge sword that can easily cut you.

How can we, “the working guy/gal” succeed against the 1% of startups?

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The Free Fall Of A Startup Entrepreneur

October 31st, 2011

You know the dream where you’re free falling from the the sky? Your whole body weightless as gravity pushes you to the earth. A massive knot in your stomach wrenching in fear. Panic sets in as you scramble for the parachute. Grasping and tugging at your vest to find the right one. There is no [...]

Google Analytics Slams SEO. Hides Organic Keywords.

October 20th, 2011

Uh, what the hell? So in an effort to make search more secure, Google is really dropping a bomb on SEO. As internet entrepreneurs we really live and die by our Google Analytics reports. We want to track the keywords people use to find us and the referring websites that sent them here. We all [...]

I Am The Next Steve Jobs

October 12th, 2011

I am the next Steve Jobs. You are the next Steve Jobs. If it’s one thing Jobs would not want – it’s finding the next Steve Jobs. He didn’t live his life in the shadow or footsteps of someone else. He lived it the way he wanted to live it. Created what he wanted to [...]

UPDATE: How-to Earn A Customer For Life

September 29th, 2011

UPDATE: What I left out from this story was a not so stellar experience I had with a third party vendor at the mansion. After I wrote this, I notified Sandy at the mansion and told her of my pleasant experience with the stay but not the vendor. She immediately apologized and escalated it to Rick the [...]