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Your Potential Means Nothing…and Everything 18 Feb 2012 | 07:39 am
Easily half the people who contact me about selling their site don’t yet have any meaningful traffic or revenue. They’re very excited about the potential for the site, though, and are sure a buyer wil...
How to Get Your Project Built 21 Jan 2012 | 06:29 am
Over the past several years, I’ve regularly had people come to me with ideas or actual domain names that they want to build out into real businesses. I have two in my Inbox right now. So rather than c...
Do You Need a Free Version? 13 Sep 2011 | 03:56 am
Great analysis on pricing an iPhone/iPad app that’s relevant to whatever you’re pricing: “Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation” (Instapaper is a phenomenal app, by the way. Easily one of...
Don’t Buy Cheap Logo Designs 20 Aug 2011 | 07:15 am
$79 for a logo sounds pretty great, especially when there are so many great options to choose from, but that logo is stolen and could cost you way more than $79.
What Do You Do for Health Insurance? 16 Jul 2011 | 08:16 am
Earlier this week, Scott Krager tweeted: Getting health insurance for a small company is nearly impossible. Having been on my own for over six years now, I’ve definitely had to deal with that. It’s ...
$100/Day: How to Find Your Own Ideas 4 May 2011 | 06:04 am
Over the past 2.5 years, I’ve posted lots of different ideas for making $100/day. If you’ve been following me for long, though, you know they can be few and far apart. Because of that, I wanted to let...
Don’t be a Dating Affiliate 4 Mar 2011 | 03:29 am
If you know what you’re doing, driving traffic to affiliate offers in the dating space pays huge. At the end of the day, though, you haven’t built any enterprise value; you have no equity to cash out....
When Does Retargeting Become Stalking? 25 Feb 2011 | 09:21 am
I’m a big fan of companies knowing general information about me so that I can see better ads as I browse the web. I’m going to see ads anyway, might as well be ones that are interesting. I’m also fin...
Dilbert’s Girlfriend Gives Great Advice 16 Feb 2011 | 05:20 am
In Saturday’s comic, Dilbert’s girlfriend gives him some great advice: I’m not kidding when I say that it’s almost impossibly difficult.
Six Years Ago Today, I Came Home Without a Job 15 Feb 2011 | 10:57 am
In 2005, I had the choice of having Valentine’s dinner with my bosses and some Google folks out in Mountain View or having it with my wife. I had been thinking about leaving anyway, and that ended up ...