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This week, a Twitter friend reached out to me and asked this question: “where’s the line between being inspired by the competition and stealing?” That got me thinking. We don’t have a clear code of conduct for this in our community. You oft
Read the essay →Imagine waking up one morning only to find your Twitter account suspended. If you’re trying to build an audience on Twitter, this is your worst nightmare. And it’s an entirely possible scenario. It happened to Jack Butcher just a few weeks
Read the essay →Being a founder is hard. It’s a well-known trope in the business world that giving up a comfortable job with a reliable salary is a risky move. Whenever I talk about how entrepreneurship is a desirable way of creating wealth, I find someone
Read the essay →Some days, I don’t feel like doing anything entrepreneurial at all. It’s not that I’m burned out or disinterested, not at all. But there are those days where all I want to do is curl up on the couch and read a good book. Often, I take the d
Read the essay →A few years ago, I was spending three hours a day sitting on a train, zooming through Germany, commuting from my home to work and back. During those days, I would consume a lot of podcasts, books, and blog posts. I was looking for advice. I
Read the essay →I often find myself trapped in the stories I tell myself. This week, I switched out the payment system of my SaaS PermanentLink. This is a critical part of my business, so I expected the actual coding part to be a high-pressure activity. Af
Read the essay →I’m an avid Twitch viewer. While writing, coding, or just researching, I quite often watch someone playing video games. I could play those games myself, but I wanted to spend time on my projects without dedicating my full attention to a gam
Read the essay →Over the last few weeks, you will have noticed that I have started talking more about the emotional impact of entrepreneurship. I talked about impostor syndrome, people cloning businesses, the loss and grief of selling a business, all topic
Read the essay →This week, I ran into a Tweet by Mike Rubini, who had found that not only his product Groouply had been cloned, but the person behind copying his Facebook group monitoring tool had put up a comparison page, trashing Mike’s product. That mad
Read the essay →This week, my partner, co-founder, and love-of-my-life Danielle Simpson appeared on the Software Social Podcast hosted by Michele Hansen and Colleen Schnettler. In a remarkably open and honest conversation, Danielle touched upon many differ
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