My Two Cents

I’ve had a copy of The E-Myth Revisited floating around my house for years, picked up at Half Priced Books a while back and forgotten as I read through The 4-Hour Workweek, Crush It, The Dream and, most recently, Rework.  A friend reminded me of the book again last week so I sat down in [...]

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DealPop.com is coming to Seattle on July 14th.  The Seattle Times did a story on the new launch from WhitePages.com on Thursday, announcing the launch date and the intent of the product as “the integration of bricks-and-mortar retail with e-commerce” with a focus on local merchants.
The space is definitely crowded, [...]

The title of this post is a quote by Winston Churchill.

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This blog is close to four years old and, since starting it, my interests have shifted.  In college, I was maniacal about the stock market.  Classmates were making money day trading, one even owned a late model Corvette.  I never got too involved in day [...]

I’ve run across several links recently to a site called mixergy that interviews web entrepreneurs about how they got started in thier businesses, how they’re doing today and their plans for the future.  Its a great resource if you’re looking for inspiration, a few war stories and the nitty gritty on what it takes to get started and run [...]

Wow, apparently Starbucks raised coffee prices today, up to 33% for some “complex orders”.  I’m not sure how I feel about it. Its discretionary spending, but they aren’t the only players on the block anymore.
Apparently the price hikes mean a Triple Grande Soy Vanilla Latte now costs $6.25, up from an already astounding $5.55.  I [...]

We’ve all heard the sayings directed toward the younger generation about how much they could learn from those who’ve lived before them.  Your parents can teach you valuable lessons about life that will prevent you from living through some of the same hardships they endured.  The value in that learning doesn’t have to only show [...]

I missed a speaking event with Gary Vaynerchuk in Seattle a few months back, but have been following him a bit online and his bestseller Crush It! is on its way from Amazon as we speak.
He’s pretty direct and to the point when it comes to talking about the opportunity available to entrepreneurs today in the [...]

We put the finishing touches on the vacation home up in Glacier, WA about a week before Christmas.  We hadn’t posted the home on vrbo.com or craigslist at all because we weren’t sure of a completion date so didn’t want to pre-book if we couldn’t deliver.  Experience told me that things always take longer than [...]

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on building a template system to quickly build wordpress sites that integrate directly with Amazon Associates to make it easy to build niche blogs that showcase products for sale on Amazon.
I have about 6 of these sites up and running at this point.  Only one is making [...]

My dad has been working on a beautiful home up in Glacier Springs (Glacier, WA) for the last few years.  I partnered up to help with the financing part way through the build out and the house is finally near completion so now we’re on to the next phase, what to do with it.
It was [...]