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Are you asking your customers the right questions?

Are you relevant? Is your product or service relevant? If you are trying to increase sales of a product you might have asked yourself these (or similar) questions. While relevance is in the top 5 most overused words of the last 5 years, it still applies to our businesses today. If your product or service […]

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Amazing tutorials to setup Apache, PHP and MySQL on Mountain Lion

After installing Mountain Lion I discovered that Apple changed their settings for Apache. Here are some amazing tutorials I came across that will help you get your Mac Mountain Lion Apache PHP MySQL server up and running. Installing Apache MySQL, PHP and setup Virtual Hosts http://todsul.com/lamp-mac-os-x-lion Installing and configuring Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin http://coolestguyplanettech.com/downtown/install-and-configure-apache-mysql-php-and-phpmyadmin-osx-108-mountain-lion […]

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What is this blog about?

You may have stumbled upon this site and are wondering, what is it about? You’re seeing random posts about business, bicycles and code – what’s the tie in? I will explain, but first a story. My friend and I met for coffee this week at Streaming Cafe. He asks me this question, “What’s your perfect […]

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Celebrate milestones or die

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years Abraham Lincoln You work hard and want to see your business grow. Are you doing the simple things that can mean the difference between sustaining your businesses growth or drying up and dying? How many of you […]

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Google’s shocking announcement that it is dropping support for IE8

On Nov 15, 2012 Google will drop support for Internet Explorer 8, just 9 days after the U.S. election and 19 days after Microsoft releases Windows 8 and IE 10. Why? Because, with the release of Windows 8 Google expects IE8 to die with Windows XP. This is big news for the web community and […]

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On Business On Teams

Life lesson #3: What you are doing is great, now find friends who think so too

I want to thank @rigelstpierre for inspiring this blog article. It’s vitally important to have passion when you are running a business, working on projects and changing the world. Passion helps sustain us when very little else is. It’s also really important to know what inspires you. I learned this lesson the hard way. Inspiration is […]

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Thanks Grooveshark

Apparently writing a blog pays in t-shirts. So a few weeks ago I responded to an article written by Gizmodo (which they posted about a year ago) proclaiming that Grooveshark was done for. Obviously they got that one wrong and I wrote about why I am glad Grooveshark is alive and swimming. I mean I […]

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On Leadership

What would you do if you saw a man sitting beside his car at an intersection?

I had to ask myself this question a couple weeks ago. Biking home I passed a man sitting beside his car at an intersection. The only thought that went through my mind was, “That’s strange for him to be parked there, it’s kind of dangerous.” As I pedal past the intersection I heard someone yelling […]

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Remote teams part 2: Is it working?

I like the photo above because I think it does a good job of telling the story of remote teams. Remote teams take work, and you need to be in it for the long distance. About four months ago I wrote a post about starting a remote team, I was pretty curious to see how […]

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On Companies

The Complete Guide to Understanding Kickstarter’s New Policies

Recently Kickstarter made some changes to their polices and those who had been happily using the service and enjoying the ability to raise funds for their project might have grown a little anxious wondering whether these changes would be for the better or for the worse, and how in general it might affect them. Meanwhile […]