True to the company culture at CastleWave, when time came for Rich and Ron to give me the next round of assignments, we sat down and planned. That said, there were no battles fought with flying memos, no flurries of emails, and no two-hour meetings. What we did–what has to be done–was to sit with a […]

Bootstrapping my freelance writing career took (and takes) just as much genius, grit, gusto, and gumption as bootstrapping a business. In their upcoming book Get a Life, Rich and Ron call this having a “fire in the belly” and “nerves of steel.” Don’t worry if you weren’t born with those. I wasn’t. There’s no fire […]

However I ended up with my brain, the punchline is that it’s the only one where I’ve got full insider access. I know its informational and creative limits, and I’ve got a rough idea of what I can do before it just shuts down. Here is the neat thing about that: knowing your limits means […]

One of the great discoveries that I have made while bootstrapping businesses for the past 20 years is what I refer to as the “Zig Zag” principle. Bootstrapping a business with limited financial resources requires business owners to “chase cash”. Conventional wisdom teaches that the shortest distance between startup and success is a straight […]

Connecting intrigues me. And connecting in a way that really matters compels me.
Throughout my career it is the one question that, well, uh, mattered. Peeling back the layers of time (not so easy for an old guy like me) it becomes clear it’s what my parents attempted to teach me by not just giving me […]