I am always surprised by how many small business owner’s decisions are driven by fear. Mostly, it’s fear that some other clever person, somewhere on the Internet, is going to steal their idea and capture 1% of the exploding gizmo market...
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It’s a sad statistic, even if it’s one I made up on the spot. Let’s look at the facts though, there are a lot of things that can kill your project: flagging economy, bad planning, incompetent teammates (everyone else), incompetent...
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Let’s step back a little and realize that when push comes to shove, none of us are really that unique. No matter what your horoscope tells you and how many postcards from Grandma you’ve gotten over the years, deep down inside you’re...
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We are bounding headfirst into a new season over at 93 Studios, but before that we spent some time looking at ARGs, the history of comics in newspapers and Grace Lee’s American Zombie. Also, for lovers of web video, this week we are officially...
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This isn’t a statistic, it’s a casual observation based on talking to way more people about their careers than any normal person should. I’m convinced that most people dislike their lives, not in any robust way but with the kind of...
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