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Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on the original post on the official Schipul Web Design Company Blog here. September 1, 2011 is the 14th anniversary of starting the company. 14 years. Considering I was unable to hold a single job for more than 2 years before this (if you exclude teaching on [...]
Tweet From: Leadership at the Expansion Stage: Dos and Dont’s The key defining attribute of expansion stage organizations is that they are expanding rapidly to capture a market opportunity and capitalize on their product or distribution advantage. It then behooves the leader to be even more aware of the rapidly changing circumstances, especially when it [...]
Tweet caller: I was calling about a web site developer: cool, that’s what we do. how can I help? caller: I have a simple site and I need some updates. not much really, just a few changes. is that something you do? developer: yes, what is the url? caller: well I’ll need you to sign [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on “Men, ask yourself, are you still a sexist pig?” on Chron.com. Yup, I’m calling the men out on subtle sexism. A lot of men, probably me too when I was younger, have a problem with their women making more than them. Rachel, my wife, made more [...]
Tweet New post on Chron.com on What Are People Paid For? This is a cross-post so please comment on the Chron site if interested. Ed Schipul Two questions I like to ask in the interview process are below. (Oh don’t worry, most job applicants don’t take the time to google things like “schipul interview questions” [...]
Tweet As the company has grown over the years, I have hit a number of tipping points that were unexpected and hurt the company. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a book that predicts these moments accurately and I know few people who have organically grown a 30+ employee 13 year old technology and [...]
Tweet So here’s my advice: If you want to become an entrepreneur… or a musician, an occupational therapist, a magician — or whatever — be certain that you know what excites you and why you want to succeed, and don’t fret over how you’ll get there. Know that when you’re driven by the right motivating [...]
Tweet There are three rules to becoming a billionaire in business. First the business rules, then the story: Sell at a profit. You have to sell at a profit. You can’t sell at a loss and make it up in volume. Any fool can reach 10M in sales by simply selling $10 for $1. Granted [...]
Tweet The false axiom “work harder not smarter” came up in conversation today. Which reminded me of this paragraph I did on the book Rework called When to Apply Business Advice: Sometimes advice is populist, but there is a logical flaw. A company who follows the infamous “work smarter not harder” quickly falls to a [...]
Tweet “Microsoft wonders why people get so upset when the Windows system crashes, and they try to point out that it crashes less than Apple. But try telling that to an Apple person, and they’ll vehemently deny it. And the reason why is that Apple has been able to create a halo of good experience [...]
Tweet “In today’s increasingly saturated product marketplace, surface appeal is not enough to elevate me-too products or services above the pack, or to yield sustained success. The harder trick is to use design to get beneath that superficial marketing level and to delve down to core business issues such as: What do people really need? [...]
Tweet I emailed out to the company today’s quote of the day, something we do internally, with the three quotes below. But given how popular advice from 37 Signals is among some of my employees, I wanted to add some commentary (after the jump). And BTW, I definitely agree with these three quotes from Rework. [...]
Tweet I run a creative agency and lighting is a frequent topic. In short, we have the people who want to live in the dark and never talk to anyone. And the people who want to “let the light shine in!”. The bottom line is if you employ both you must side with the people [...]
Tweet Part of blogging, for me, it contextual in regards to “the times”. The current events are relevant to the medium. And this is our current reality in the United States of America. Unemployment hits 25-year high – jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed (3/6/2009) Merrill Lynch [...]