I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s brilliant book, Tribes, over the past week. One of Godin’s theories in the book, that I definitely buy into is the importance of carving a niche with your message. A Tribe by Godin’s definition is a..
Topics: Delivery & Execution, mustard seed entrepreneur, Projects, schedule, tribes

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So, I’ve been focusing on both mastering and minimizing mistakes. Mistakes lead to a less “dreamy” lifestyle, the opposite of what we’re trying to achieve here. If you’ve been reading, you know that I recently closed my...
Topics: adwords, competitive analysis, Delivery & Execution, Entrepreneurship, pre-launch, testing

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This post is a bit less focused than most, but there have been a myriad of thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys. I’ve added a new widget to the blog that will help promote other blogs that I read and am inspired by, I’ve started...
Topics: BlogRollr, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Twitter monetization

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In October of 2008 I launched a company called SocialDreamium LLC. I started out doing social web consulting work and used the revenues from that to fund the development of our first product. I recruited a co-founder and development team in December 2008.
Topics: failure, learning, lessons learned, Mistakes & Lessons, Projects, SocialDreamium

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Learning From OthersAs I work on my “Lessons Learned” post after closing down SocialDreamium (post should be ready by Wednesday) there is one main lesson that sticks out above the rest. The one lesson that I couldn’t wait until...
Topics: entrepreneurs, lessons, Mistakes & Lessons, Twitter

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