I'm testing this new functionality and I'm hoping that this theme will be able to answer the question for me?
If this displays correctly, then Decadence supports Ask / Answer type posts perfectly.
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The idea for selling our own software really came out of frustration more than anything else.
David Greiner, on how they came to the idea of building Campaign Monitor.
I know this is something that many VC’s & startup founders have spoken about, but Campaign Monitor’s story again highlights that if you’re building something to solve a problem that you have, you are most likely also solving a problem that others may have.
WooThemes - for example - grew out of our frustration of managing multiple client design & development projects at the same time and we wanted to give ourselves an easier & more efficient way of earning a salary as web designers. Now, we see many designers & developers building their businesses using our themes for their client projects; so the process & theory of solving problems almost goes full circle.
(via adii)
Going Back, Changing Stuff
adii:
Based on this question about going back & changing decisions we made at WooThemes; is there anything that you would want to change with your startup / business if you had the opportunity to do it over again? Any regrets?
adii:
Scatter-gun approach rarely works, as you’re only splitting your ideas and energy.
- Adii Pienaar
I’m following in Mark’s footsteps now; hopefully though one day when I’m famous, the media won’t reference this funky-looking photo of me.
I need to be working for a reason. Salaried work isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the benefits it provided me weren’t benefits I actually wanted.
Xavier Shay, on why he quit a six figure job.
From following me here, you would know that I’d recommend being an entrepreneur (and hence your own boss) on most occasions. But what I’ve learned is that there are simply some people who don’t want to go that route and I’ve realized that, that too is perfectly fine.
And I guess that is why I love Xavier’s post; not because of his decision to got a 9 - 5 job, but because he made a decision unique to himself. If you read through the post, you will find specific reasons to his decision for quitting his job.
And that’s great, because that approach means that this kind of decision can never be a simple generic one.
(via adii)
Creating Value
adii:
After reading this article about Airbnb’s success, there was one bit from the article that really got me thinking:
“…a company that creates immensely more value than it extracts from customers…”
Reading & re-reading that phrase really got me thinking about how other business models work in terms of the margin between value created & value extracted.
I’ve not read Tony Hsieh’s Delivery Happiness yet either, but I kinda suspect that it’s gonna come down to the same principle: create & offer more value than you are necessarily being paid.
This doesn’t mean you should cut profit margins or stop earning a profit all-together, but you should consider adding non-financial value to whatever it is you are offering clients. So how can you do that in your business?
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