The Boss of You

I just finished reading “The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker” over at Inc.com — and before you gag on how cheesy that sounds, hear me out, because it’s kind of awesome.
There’s a lot in it I don’t relate to, because the subject of the piece, Keith Ferrazzi, is a relentlessly ambitious guy who has [...]

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There’s a fun movie night coming up soon for all you fans of indie, DIY, crafty stuff. Faythe Levine is bringing her film, Handmade Nation, to Vancouver. The film features some of our favourite artist-designer-crafters, like Jenny Hart (whom we interviewed for our book, The Boss of You) and Nikki McClure, among many, many others.
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This smart, simple Venn diagram has been making the rounds on Twitter, and I like the way it neatly summarizes some great business advice. The creator, Bud Caddell, comes from a service firm perspective, but I think this stuff applies equally well to product-based businesses.
I was particularly delighted to read Caddell’s thoughts about the “Learn [...]

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Sweet Seattle, we do love you so. And of all the reasons to love Seattle, our friends Megan Reardon (of Not Martha fame) & Kristen Rask (the creative genius behind Schmancy) are high on the list. They started up the Grassroots Business Association last year, a business group for creative, indie entrepreneurs, and it’s been [...]

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The economic woes we’re facing right now feel awfully familiar.
See, Emira and I started our business in February 2000; by the end of that summer, our industry (and in fact all things web-related) had experienced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and family wondered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong [...]

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So, I’ve been kinda quiet around here of late. My schedule got full and writing blog posts kept falling to the bottom of my to-do list — not because I don’t love writing, or because I don’t have a ton of ideas, but because it got to that point where it just felt like one [...]

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