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Quick 2008 Recap

I can’t believe it’s been 3 years of entrepreneurship.  It continues to be an experience I cherish and whole-heartedly recommend.  Being your own boss and having the flexibility to work on what you want, when you want and from where you want really is priceless.  
2008 brought some great new milestones for us:

Redesigned Menuism and got [...]

Using that christmas feeling to give you a boost

Do you remember when you were a kid and couldn’t sleep the night before christmas because you wanted to wake up and open presents? That feeling of anticipation that lying there is just too boring. Is that the kind of feeling you have about your business?
All work and no play makes Jack a [...]

7 lessons to survive the next dot-com bust

Got your own online startup? Perhaps you’re building Zillow with millions in venture funding, or maybe it’s just you and your passion for furniture porn and other guilty pleasures. Either way, you’ll find something useful from the following list, which came straight from the mouth of a veteran online entrepreneur who’s [...]

Are you in “The Dip”? Quit and you might succeed

Are you trying to power through some tough times? Are you really going to make it and succeed? Maybe you’re actually in a cul-de-sac (essentially a dead end) where there’s no chance for success and you need to quit…
Dreary thoughts, I know, but they’re reality checks everyone needs to go through. According [...]

Attending Bootcamp for fun, profit, and accountability

Coming off the fun time we had at Tech Cocktail 4 last week, we’ve been following up with all the great contacts that we made at the event. One of the nicest guys we hooked up with at Tech Cocktail was Mike Carruth, founder of Digital Bootcamp, a Chicago training facility that offers courses [...]