In 2002 I was running MWI’s predecessor, Mindwire Interactive, but I had made mistakes and was ready to walk away and start over. Another business offered to buy us out. We started negotiating to try and come to a deal. And then I made a mistake. I assumed we would get a deal done…soon. The company buying us out said…
Smart vs Stupid
A compendium of experiences I’ve had that have shown me that initially I’m none too bright but sometimes I do a better job the second time around.
It’s funny how you get an idea of how something could be done better, only to find out you’re completely wrong. A few years ago I started working on the idea for The SEO Consultants. The idea was fairly simple–a lot of small businesses can’t afford search engine optimization services at a price tag of $2,000-$5,000, so let’s create a…
Yeah, I got a loan to start my business. Not just one, either. Lots of them. Looking back it makes me wonder if having a good credit score is all it’s cracked up to be.
I once owned radiohead.org. I sold it for $200 in 1999, thinking I had made a killing, seeing as how I had bought it just months before for $35. But alas, I was a fool.
Sadly, it’s often tempting as a business owner to try and do too many things. The thought process tends to go like this–Well, we’re good at this, and this, and this, and this, and we’re not so good at this but we can do it so we’ll tell people we do it, and we can learn how to do this…
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Aug
I Tri Hard
Some of you have had the chance to sit down and talk with me about my recent transformation whereby I admit that up until recently I have been a blind idiot and now I’m just an idiot. Or something like that. Or to put it in Jack Handy’s words, I just figured out that “I’d rather be rich than stupid.”…
