Posts Tagged “Entrepreneurship”

Cash Accounting vs. Accrual Accounting

By | March 25, 2010

There are two primary methods of accounting for the income and expenses of a business: cash and accrual.  In general, if your company’s revenue is less than $5 million per year, you are free to choose either one. Cash Accounting Cash accounting is the more common choice for small business accounting.  Income is not reported [...]

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Funny Usernames

By | January 26, 2010

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The following are the best of the best of Shoes ‘R Us member usernames.  These are not personally identifying in any way.  I’ve made some slight edits, and inserted the text as images to protect them from spiders/spambots/other bad guys, and to maintain their privacy as outlined in our privacy policy. And just like the [...]

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Book Review: The Accidental Billionaires

By | January 13, 2010

Accidental Billionaires

Last week I finished The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich.  It sounded interesting, and I really liked his other book, Bringing Down the House. Mezrich tells the story of how Facebook got its start, from a Harvard dorm-room operation in early 2004, to [...]

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Knocking Down Walls

By | November 6, 2009

I think this is a cute story, and appropriate this week after Ford’s $1 billion Q3 profit.  Nice job guys! Over 100 years ago, Henry Ford was tinkering in the shed out behind his house.  He was building his first car.  But when he finished, he realized he’d made one critical mistake: it was too [...]

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Announcing CarryMyStuff.com

By | October 20, 2009

CarryMyStuff.com, a new comparison shopping site for handbags, luggage, backpacks, wallets, laptop bags, and more is now live.  I’ve still got some work to do to get it fully operational, but most of the functionality is there. We have tons of products from more than 1000 name brand manufacturers at all the top stores.

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Automation Domination

By | July 15, 2009

I had a small victory this week in my ongoing effort to automate and simplify day-to-day tasks.  Because shoe inventory is always changing, one of my biggest challenges is keeping all the product links up-to-date. Up until about 15 months ago, I was doing all this manually, individually checking each link.  It was a very [...]

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