Anyone can point their iphone at the mirror but a professional headshot for your avatar won’t come from that. We’re having Noelle come in and shoot headshots for our ThreeFortyNine members. We’d figure we’d open it up the public as well. The shoot will take less than 30 minutes per person. You’ll receive two final versions that have been edited. […]
The subtitle of the book Antifragile is “Things That Gain from Disorder. I’m fascinated by that concept and specifically how you can leverage it within the chaos that is new business creation. How can you prepare your business and team to not just be unharmed by large unpredictable events but to benefit from them? A thread […]
I reference this great post by Jason Fried almost weekly. He compares learning to create new businesses to learning to play an instrument. Getting is more about pickup up an instrument and making noise around like minded folks than it is about pitch contests and incubators. My kids and I were watching Danny MacAskill’s video the […]
Is it just me or are startups, and being a founder of a startup, just about the coolest thing around these days? A few years back a funder suggested to me that there’s too much ‘starting up to get laid’ going on. I wasn’t exactly sure what he was referring to but I’m starting to […]
Just wanted to share this coworking video…
“It ain’t about the desks”, I find myself saying that a lot in reference to ThreeFortyNine. It’s enlightening witnessing a person’s transition from when they first visit our building to a few months of working here full time. It’s all about the costs on day one, however, in a short time, you see people go […]
Founder’s Club recap for January 9th meeting… Thanks to Ali Asaria from well.ca for dropping by. The most interesting tangent for me was this concept of how crazy you have to be to attempt creating a (insert dollar figure) dollar company. As well, if you show signs of success on that path, it’s very likely […]
We sell Field Notes here, partially because we wish we were hipsters, mostly because they’re wicked paper and pens. We’re drooling over their newly released expedition edition and want to place a new order so we can have them. To do that, we’re clearing out some current stock. We have a few remaining 3-packs. We’re […]
Founder’s Club recap for our December 5th meeting… [Give] Matthew Sharpe of Daring Boy shared the value of allowing your personality to come through in the design process. Taking the time to step back from the colours and nuts and bolts of building to remember why you’re building your business and then allowing the design […]
Founder’s Club recap for our October 24th meeting… I realize this is getting old but we had yet another full house last night at Founder’s Club. We had a great mix of people building both tech and non-tech businesses which was awesome. Thanks for everyone who came out. Scott led a discussion on landing page […]