Getting my nails done is a newfound obsession of mine. It feels like a girly, guilty pleasure, and is something I enjoy doing to spend time with my daughters. This weekend, it was the last place I thought I would find inspiration for running my own business. But, small business owners can teach us all a lot about how to interact with the key driver of our business success, our customers.
Entrepreneurship
On a cross-country flight to San Francisco when my girls were 6 and 9 years old, my laptop battery died. I put aside the work I planned to finish, and I started reflecting on how my path as an entrepreneur might influence my daughters. Since they were so […]
When aspiring entrepreneurs ask me when is the right time to raise money, my answer always is, “Bootstrap as long as you can, until the lack of capital slows down your growth.” Once you start the money hunt, the amount of time you can spend building your business goes down […]
I recently went to a talk by @mikeonads about Adserving and Scalability. I went prepared to hear about the technical bits of scaling and to do a compare/contrast of some of the challenges that the ad industry faces versus high-volume search (where I have been spending most of my cycles lately.) Surprisingly, Mike […]