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Essays On Business

How to maintain your focus

Mountain Climbing - Focus Goal

It is no secret that keeping ones focus in business is challenging. I’ve found this especially true in a startup. That uncertain phase after you’ve got a few early adopters and now are going after the early majority. It can be tough crossing that chasm. Customers went from liking your product because it was new, to now being a bit skeptical and reluctant because… it’s new. V973KE5R5TCC

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Essays On Business

Innovation is a necessary ingredient for success

InnovationHave you ever experienced creative block? You need a good idea and you can’t seem to think of one? I used to run a small clothing company out of my house. I was doing everything from designing t-shirts to manning events and following up with sales. Then my creative juices stopped. I was having a really tough time coming up with new creative designs. My friend Jaron is chatting to me one day and says, “Why don’t you go out find clothing styles you like, and then ask yourself, ‘How can I make this even better?'”

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MAMP PHP Tutorials

How to enable and setup php.ini on a Mac with OSX 10.8 + (MAMP Part 4)

Welcome to part 4 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up php.ini on your Mac’s localhost.

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MAMP MySQL Tutorials

How to setup phpMyAdmin on a Mac with OSX 10.8 + (MAMP Part 3)

Welcome to part 3 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up phpMyAdmin on your Mac’s localhost. Part 2 walks you through installing mysql on your localhost read. Part 1 shows you how to setup up Apache on your Mac.

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On Business

3 simple steps to test the validity of your new tech idea

Web app Idea validationWithout practical business experience, going to conferences and reading books on starting and running a tech business can give people the wrong impression. Starting a new venture appears to be really easy. Have an idea, go through a tough grind, come out the other end prosperous and successful. Best case scenario, you start a new idea get bought by Google or Facebook and don’t even need to go through the grind. Listening to the self-promoters, I mean teachers, can leave someone with this impression. I mean they got me.

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Linux MAMP MySQL Tutorials

How to setup MySQL on a Mac (MAMP Part 2)

Welcome to part 2 of the MAMP tutorial. In this part we will go over setting up Mysql on your Mac’s localhost. Part 1 goes over everything you need to do to setup PHP on a Mac

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Git Linux Tutorials

Pulling a git repo from github to your Ubuntu server

A quick tutorial showing you how to install and setup git on an Ubuntu server and pull a repo from Github.

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Linux Tutorials

Easy way to give user permission to edit and add files in /var/www

Tutorial showing you how to give an Ubuntu user the right to edit and add files in the /var/www folders.

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Linux Tutorials

How to become root using sudo in Ubuntu

Simple trick in Ubuntu to become root if your user has the sudo group assigned to it (this way you won’t need to type sudo in front of every command)

sudo -i
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Linux Tutorials

How to list all of a users groups in Ubuntu

If you need to see all of the groups assigned to a user simply type the following into the Terminal:

groups username

To display all the groups on your Ubuntu system just type:

groups