How to Do What You Love And Get Paid Well For It: 5 Keys

How to Do What You Love And Get Paid Well For It: 5 Keys

[ DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS A FREE PDF EBOOK HERE ] The Short & Sweet Slides Version View more presentations from Cory Miller My post on How to be a Professional has been by far the most popular post on this blog. So I thought I’d expand on that after getting asked to speak to [...]

Using Assessment Tools, Like StrengthsFinder, In Your Business

Using Assessment Tools, Like StrengthsFinder, In Your Business

One of the most helpful tools we’ve used for our workplace is the Gallup-backed StrengthsFinder.com assessment tool to understand each of our team member’s unique and natural strengths. We use it to find out what they are great at and how we can fit that into the context of our team dynamics and to ensure [...]

8 Similar Principles Between Business and Software Development

8 Similar Principles Between Business and Software Development

Here’s a followup of my Your Business is Like Software post. It was too long to put there, so here are 8 things I find remarkably similar between business and software development: Assumptions and ideas are like farts in the wind. Do your due diligence. Then test everything. Beta test the big things. Get feedback. [...]

Your Business Is Like Software

Your Business Is Like Software

Let me admit up front and say that I am not a developer or a programmer. I am a former newspaper journalist turned web entrepreneur. So I freely admit I’m a hack. (And my team will back me up on that!) However, for the past four-plus years I’ve been around and worked with software developers [...]

5 Heretical Tips for Entreprenuerial-Minded Designers

5 Heretical Tips for Entreprenuerial-Minded Designers

I was asked by my good friend Sandip Patel of BitConfused and CageApp to talk to his Design Entrepreneurship class today and thought I’d share what I, um, shared. The group consisted mainly of graphic design majors and oriented my talk about designers started entrepreneurial ventures. *** I’m going to share heresy with you. Here [...]