Just announced! Fizzle is hosting a live academy during the World Domination Summit in Portland, OR on Monday July 14. This academy is open to everyone. You don't need to be a Fizzle member or WDS attendee to join this half-day session with the entire Fizzle team.
Have you heard Marc Maron’s podcast? It’s called WTF and it’s consistently at the top of the podcast charts. Recently Maron interviewed the inimitable Billy Connolly and I found a scene in the conversation that holds a killer insight for entrepreneurs.
Back when Fizzle launched, Corbett said, “We believe the Internet has started a revolution in entrepreneurship. It has never been less expensive or more possible to build an online business, to create an honest, innovative, true, fulfilling and valuable business.”
People ask us all the time: what tools did you guys use to build Fizzle? What do you recommend for building a small, independent, bootstrapped online business? It's a great question. There are thousands of tools out there. It's way too easy to let choosing your tools get in the way of making real progress in your business.
I used to be so caught up with vanity stats and metrics when I first started blogging that I didn’t realize how much energy I was wasting. It took me a long time to figure it out too.
One of the most brutal and constructive lessons we learn as bootstrappers is this: nobody cares about you or your product. Many here at The Sparkline have learned that lesson the hard way, launching a product or website—some labor of time, love and sweat—into nothing but crickets… no sales, no links, no love.
A month before turning 29, after having spent the majority of my 20's working for five different companies, I finally decided to strike out on my own. In September of 2012 I said goodbye to what I hoped would be my last office job. In October, I created an online business that would teach entrepreneurs how to get started with online video.
Q: What’s the secret of growing a startup? “You’ve got to start with a small, intense fire. Suppose you’re the Apple I. They only made about 500 of those things, so, all they had to do was find 500 people to buy these computers, and they launched Apple. APPLE!
Every business owner gets a Spidey Sense. You learn to see trouble before it starts. You wouldn’t need much of a Spidey sense to feel the danger from Jon’s presales email:
As I was listening to this conversation Chase and Chris Ducker were having (the audio of which is below this post), it made me think of something all entrepreneurs struggle with. There is a feeling of validation that we all expect to feel whenever we share or publish something online.