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.
The […]

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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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