How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Small Business Tips

Happy birthday Two-Bit Operation! Today marks the one-year anniversary of our last day at our previous jobs. It seems like just last week that, wide-eyed and full of boundless optimism, we started the company and this blog. What difference a year makes! Our eyes aren’t as wide anymore (fatigue-induced :)), but [...]

UPS is having it’s 2nd annual “Out of the Box Small Business Contest” where the 1st place winner receives $10,000 cash (or $10,000 in free shipping - yeah, I dunno, I guess some people would need that), an HP computer (~$2,000 value), $5,000 of UPS consulting, $1000 in document services from UPS Store, plus a [...]

I watched “The Office” today on NBC and chatted with an old co-worker (who, by the way, just left HP today) and it got me thinking about working and office life. It’s been almost 3 months since we quit the rat race and my memory is fading fast about working in the corporate world. [...]

So as anyone who’s tried working in distributed teams knows, working virtually can quickly turn into virtually working - all the motions but not all the output. It can be particularly difficult for collaborative and time-sensitive projects such as ours. (You can read all about it in a book co-written by Rob Oyung, [...]

Well the big day has come and gone - I’ve graduated from HP and corporate America (for now) and the next journey begins. Of course, it doesn’t feel any different, and it probably won’t until Monday when I realize that I won’t have a job to go to. But, it’s just like any [...]