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Soul glow
January 05, 2010
With the end of 2009 comes the final installment of my bootstrapping blog series (with a New Year’s resolution to blog more frequently and involve all our team members!). At the end of the day, you can plan, strategize, rationalize, work hard, and dream all you want, but so much of the startup experience comes down to intangibles. Luck is frequently mentioned as being a key ingredient. And you have to be in the right place at the right time. I’ll call all of this the “Soul glow.“
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Sustainable startups: the triple crown
November 19, 2009
I moderated a panel last week at the Net Impact Conference and came away inspired by the energy of 2,600 people from 40 states and 23 countries who attended. Net Impact is a membership organization of 15,000+ emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world. Being surrounded by change agents and having Al Gore in our office building today has put me in a reflective mood about why sustainability is important for a startup.
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Startup bliss using online tools
November 02, 2009
Two of the main barriers to entry when starting an enterprise are getting internal operations set up, and getting the word out to generate leads. Thank goodness for all the great online tools out there to help you turn a plan into reality! Without some of these services, it would have been harder to get FMYI off the ground:
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Does worklife balance exist in startups?
October 19, 2009
The irony of this blog post is I put it off in order to spend time with my family. Our second child was born a week before our FMYI 6.0 release, which presented some challenges. I touched on this topic briefly in the The Oregonian recently. I want to live a full life with family and friends, while contributing to the economy by helping to create jobs in a sustainable way. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive, but it is a challenge to balance them.
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