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So you just built the next great web app, the launch day has finally come and …. silence. Crickets chirping. You anxiously check your Google Analytics stats and see that despite having the coolest new website ever, nobody seems to care. More precisely, nobody knows about it yet.
This is one of the toughest [...]
I recently stumbled on the writings of Paul Graham and I have to say I’ve been incredibly impressed. It’s not often that I find myself finding such insight and experience in what I read. Most people out there are hawking versions of the same story, but Paul Graham seems to have a unique perspective on [...]
Stop Talking About It And Just Build It
In: Advice| Productivity
22 Jul 2009Saw this great video about Facebook’s development team today. Got me thinking…more companies need to think like this. Focused, uninterrupted work is the greatest gift you have…but how often do we really do it?
Generally speaking, if you are answering your phone, opening snail mail, chatting, emailing, even talking with other people at all…you are NOT [...]
A Few Entrepreneurs You Should Be Listening To Today
In: Advice| Business Ideas| Education
5 Jun 2009From time to time I get in touch with various readers of this blog who are “Breaking Free” in their own way.
Please take a minute to check out their respective sites below and give them a look! It’s always pays to get around like minded people and see what you can learn.
Gordie Rogers is an [...]
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A Good Example Of Bad User Interface Design
1 Apr 2009Check out Time Magazine’s web page for the top 100 most influential people of 2009.
Lots of people on this list are emailing around saying “hey I’m at #25 right now, vote for me please!”
So when you click to their individual page on the website, you move the little slider over to #1 (you want them [...]
Adding Gasoline To Your Rocket Ship
20 Feb 2009I went to a pretty interesting talk yesterday at the Houston Technology Center where Bijoy Goswami was speaking. It was a great chance to network with a bunch of other entrepreneurs.
One of the biggest take aways I got from the talk was when he outlined the 3 basic types of startups that you can [...]
The Power Of Thank-You Notes
In: Advice
14 Jan 2009I have to credit my mother with instilling in me the importance of thank you notes from a young age. As a young man I absolutely HATED writing my thank you notes after Christmas but she would still force me to do it.
I remember one year (I was about eight I think) I had [...]
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- Tags: mentors, thank you notes
How To Wake Up Productive
In: Advice
7 Jan 2009Want to make sure you accomplish your goals in 2009? Well Eben Pagan has a new video out that is pretty good.
Eben is a very impressive entrepreneur who has built several multi-million dollar companies. I’ve listened and read probably about 100 hours of his material. Some of them three or four times.
Click [...]
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What I Wish I’d Known When I Started This Blog
In: Advice
30 Nov 2008The other day when I posted about breaking the 2,000 subscriber mark, Breaking Free reader Caleb, of http://www.thesoldiermillionaire.com/, asked a very good question that I thought deserved some more attention:
Brian,
You say it took you about a year before your blog picked up momentum.
If you were to start a new blog all over again now, from [...]
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- Tags: blog topics
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In: Advice
4 Nov 2008Do you realize how many doors that simple phrase can open for you?
Everything – from meetings with important people to free press any time you launch a new project – is yours if you’re known for something that people love.
So how do you do it? Start publishing your ideas. You need distribution.
In Ben [...]
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