Author Archive for Cory Miller

Investing In Your Entrepreneurial Success

Investing In Your Entrepreneurial Success

Since the October launch of EntrepreneurshipLab.net, I’ve had a blast sharing with you some of the experiences I’ve learned over the past 5+ years of being a full-time entrepreneur. Here is a list of the topics I’ve shared at the Lab since October: 25+ Ideas for Getting Customers How to Find Time For Your Business 7 [...]

11 Ways to Make Your Software Sacred

11 Ways to Make Your Software Sacred

Just posted this over at Entrepreneurship Lab titled 11 Striking Traits of Sexy, Sacred Software.  But here are the 11 S’s of Sacred Software with some examples: Sync – Software should be available everywhere I want it to be, like my iPhone, then my laptop and yes, even at the public library I just used this week. [...]

The Entrepreneurship Lab Opens Saturday

The Entrepreneurship Lab Opens Saturday

Entrepreneurship is a passion of mine. And for the last couple of years, I’ve become increasingly more intentional about helping budding entrepreneurs live their own dreams … and yes, learn from my mistakes as well as the things we’ve learned that have helped make us successful! Since starting iThemes in January 2008, and thus fulfilling [...]

Your First Three Critical Startup Partners

Your First Three Critical Startup Partners

Looking back on almost 5 years of full-time entrepreneurship, these are the first three critical startup partners I would suggest when getting started with a startup. 1. Significant Other Your significant other is your first, most valuable, most influential and primary partner in your business, even if he isn’t working IN the business with you. [...]

Growing a Startup Like a Pumpkin?

Growing a Startup Like a Pumpkin?

My latest read that really  is called The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz. He uses the metaphor of growing REALLY big pumpkins to taking your business to the next level. This definition of what is an entrepreneur was especially sharp: “Entrepreneurs identify the problems, [...]