The Boss of You

Gina Tra­pani, one of my favourite writ­ers on top­ics like work, pro­duc­tiv­ity, and all-around geek­ery, has writ­ten a great post over on Free­lance Switch (it’s aimed at free­lancers, but I think most entre­pre­neurs, espe­cially small-scale ones, can glean some­thing valu­able from it) about what she calls her Per­sonal Busi­ness Model. The PBM is basi­cally a […]

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Some­thing very excit­ing hap­pened last week: I got my new iMac set up at work. And the heav­ens opened, the angels sang, the earth shook a lit­tle (gen­tly)… then I got straight back to work, because let’s face it, things are busy.
This wouldn’t be such a big deal, I guess, except that until recently Raised […]

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When we were writ­ing the finance chap­ters in The Boss of You, more than once we wished we could ship our book with a lit­tle USB drive full of sam­ple Excel spread­sheets. Then we real­ized that of course, we could sim­ply post said spread­sheets on our web­site for every­one to use — that’s right, even […]

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