How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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rob_wallingRob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, “Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup” available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net.

Rob is one of the most successful “micropreneurs” — creators of small, cash-generating startups frequently sold for cash. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

Introduction

I receive essentially the same reaction when I mention that I use virtual assistants, and that I recommend them for anyone starting a startup. It’s a mix ..read more

Go For Tried and Tested CFD Trading Strategies

Friday, July 30th, 2010

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Enough with the "expert" guilt

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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I’m sick of being admonished that success is predicated on spending the next 10,000 hours of our lives becoming “an expert.”

I’m sick of hearing about how I should be molding my life in the image of Michael Phelps or Albert Einstein, because the only thing that separates me from genius is identifying my strengths and working really really hard.

I’m calling bullshit.

We’re so busy trying to make ourselves into outliers that we’re forgetting about what’s important.

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Penelope Trunk pushed me over the edge when she wrote that for the last two years she’s been schlepping around a Harvard Business Review article called “The ..read more

Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

Monday, October 19th, 2009

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Is Jason a sell-out?

I sold my company, Smart Bear, in December of 2007. I haven’t talked about it at all on this blog, and it’s time I spill my guts about the whole affair.

You’d think selling a company would be a glamorous, exuberant experience, but I was surprised at the reactions I got. These are actual quotes:

“How could you sell your baby? I’m shocked.” “I thought you said things were going well. Hmm.” “You’re such a sell-out! You used to be one of the few cool people I knew.”

Interestingly, 100% of the negative reactions were from people who had never started their own ..read more

Sacrifice your health for your startup

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The Internet is full of good advice about how to lead a healthy, balanced work/home life:

Leo Bauboa of Zen Habits built his Technorati 100 blog on one hour a day, leaving plenty of time for a day job and a family.

Tim Brownson reshuffles our priorities?so we realize what’s important to accomplish and what’s not important to worry about.

Merlin Mann of 43folders shows us how merely admitting what we don’t like about ourselves and our life leads to a vast menu of options for fixing it.

Penelope Trunk demonstrates that