I have a degree from university, for which I spent 5 years taking a variety of courses on several subjects. Taking about 10-12 courses per year, that works out to about 50-60 courses. That’s quite a bit of education when you think about it: about 2000 hours of education in class. As a rule of [...]
There are many expressions around describing the fact that you have to work to get rewarded – there’s no such thing as a free lunch – and that the amount of the reward will be proportionate to the work done – you get what you pay for. There are expressions relating risk and reward – [...]
I had 3 discussions last week with different types of people regarding appropriate fees, and came up with 1 conclusion. You’re not charging enough. The logic works as follows: You want to earn $100,000 per year. You think you can get 1000 billable hours. Your hourly rate is therefore $100. If you actually try charging [...]
I was reading a book to my daughter the other day, and the opening words struck a chord with me: This was no time for play. This was no time for fun. This was no time for games. There was work to be done/ The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss Two [...]
It’s that time of year again. With the holidays fast approaching, it’s time to think about where you’re going in life, whether that be personal, professional, or any other aspect of your life. Many people make New Year’s resolutions, but how many of you actually follow through on those resolutions? What I did last year [...]
I just bought a copy of The Web Startup Success Guide by Bob Walsh. It was an impulse purchase – I was actually looking for a book on PHP and MySQL and the cover caught my eye. I never heard of Bob Walsh, but I had heard of the guy who wrote the foreword – [...]
I have, as some people know, been fairly busy recently (although that may be hard to tell from the fact that I have time to write on my 2 blogs so often). For those who don’t realize that, let me explain what I am working on at the moment. For starters, I work as a [...]
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I’ve been working on an idea over the last few weeks to develop a new product along with several other people. As the instigator of this project, I have been learning a lot about how an idea moves from concept to production, from burning money to profitability, from unheard of to world famous. I have [...]
This is the final installment of the social media series, which started with the post on August 7. There was to have been a post last Friday, but life sometimes gets in the way. I’m curious to know what you thought of the series – how might it have been improved, what additional topics should [...]
