Archive for December, 2008
My 2009 “Not to do” list.
Posted on December 31, 2008
My personal business resolutions for 2009 are as follows. They are high level and notice they are things I will NOT do.
In 2009 I will NOT:
- Set unrealistic or unfair expectations of myself. Say, “yes” to everything without first assessing the emotional, professional, personal, karmic ROI.
- Neglect to quickly give credit to the team.
- Solely focus on short-term benefits unless it is a pathway to accomplishing long-term goals.
Get complacent. - Count on anything before it is a reality.
- Forget to network because it often benefits someone other than myself.
- Stop critically thinking, but refrain from always shooting holes in others’ ideas.
- Lose sight of the fact that I can replace my job but not my family.
- Stress!
Reprinted from an email I received in my personal box, but the list struck me as one that I thought most people should ponder as we go into 2009.
A big thanks to GearHost.com
Posted on December 28, 2008
I wanted to send out a big Thank You to Peter Radizeski who turned me to to GearHost.com during my VPS dilema last week. Their platform seems to fit the bill for the needs of the project. The platform connected immediatly to my developers toolset, and we should be well on the road to developing our application. Not only did I sign up as a customer with GearHost, their CEO spent quite a bit of time on the phone with me explaining their platform. After about 30 minutes on the phone with the CEO, I was confident that this platform would not only work as a development environement, but am about 95% sure this will be an excellent production enviroment as well.
I’m upset, bootstrapping a startup, and VPS providers can be horrible!
Posted on December 23, 2008
I am bootstrapping a startup company, which will remain anonymous for the time being, however, I have to rant about a few things:
- Horrible service from Web hosts
- The inability to get services up and running, and not taking responsibility for their mistakes
- The inability to try to save an account
First, I have been trying to buy a Windows based VPS for some development of a new product over the past three weeks. What a horrible experience. The first vendor I purchased a Windows VPS from is a hosting company which I believed would be a good fit. Read the rest of this entry »
Small Businesses need help, not hype
Posted on December 9, 2008
I read this great post by Mike Moran on his Biznology blog a few minutes ago. It is centered around the SMB being in the land the Internet forgot. Give it a read, I think you will enjoy it: http://tinyurl.com/mikemoran.
