Archive for November, 2006

Sometimes You’ll Have to Reevaluate the Partnership

We all know the feeling of starting our first business. It’s great! It’s awesome! It’s exciting! Many of us will start a business venture with a partner straight from the beginning. Hopefully our partner is just as enthusiastic about the business as we are. In most cases – during the beginning – our partners will […]

Send Large Files with MediaMax

Filed under technology

A few weeks back I needed to send a few large pdfs to a client of mine. If you’re familiar with Gmail and most major email systems, 10GB is pretty much the regular for file transfers. I wanted to send around 20GB of information and I really didn’t feel like ftp-ing anything over my server […]

What Bank Do You Use for Business?

Since starting my company in 2004 I’ve been using Commerce bank for my business accounts. At first everything was cool, but after the first year or so with them, things quickly began to fall apart.
Just over the past year I’ve endured numerous strings of fraudulent activity on my account. Most recently in August there was […]

It’s Almost Winter Break: Start Your Business!

Filed under inspiration

How can I forget Jan 1 2004, the day when I finally decided that I wanted to become an internet entrepreneur. Just the winter before I remembered asking my friend Colin, “how do you build a website?” A year later, there I was, thinking of how I could build my first online business – a […]

This is All Practice, So Keep At it

Filed under attitude

Young entrepreneur + ideas + implement idea + idea fails + try again = Practice.
We’re young entrepreneurs and it’s just the beginning. The fact that we’re actually waking up every morning and taking steps to make our dreams a reality it a huge accomplishment.
Sure, we’re going to fail and also have a few successes here […]

The NYC Drug Dealing, CD selling, Down and Dirty Entrepreneur

There is no place like New York City. There is no other place in the world where you can walk through a park and within 3 minutes have 5 people offer to sell you a bag of pot (say no to drugs!), 2 people attempt to sell you the latest CD on the market, a […]

It’s Tough & Rough Being an Internet Entrepreneur

Can you believe it: the internet recently passed the 100 million page mark. That’s amazing. Personally, I’m proud to be a part of such an evolutionary time that we’re going through. The internet is changing our lives and helping us to do things never before possible.
Many of us young entrepreneurs have ventures focused around the […]