You have a job and it’s paying the bills. Maybe it’s even more than paying the bills, you are making really good money! Your family is taken care of, you have good healthcare, all of your kids needs are taken care of, and you have money left over to invest. You can even go out […]

It’s an oft quoted mantra of bootstrappers… “If you want to find ideas for customs apps to build, find out where businesses use spreadsheets”. On the one hand, spreadhsheets are a gift of the gods when it comes to rapid prototyping. On the other, they often turn into huge festering masses of cross workbook links […]

Each day, everyday, we think up more things to do. Write a blog post, paint the house, clean the bathroom, re-work the sales page, change the colors, add more analytics… When does it stop? It never stops. You are a creator, a thinker, you can see a better way and you can make plans to […]

What if you could choose exactly who signed up for your offering? This is something we really screwed up with CRELister when we were launching it last fall. We thought “Everyone in the Austin market should love us”. And when we launched it, we got nothing. Crickets. 600 outbound emails, 10 phone calls, 1 signup. […]

Check out this link: https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html Look at that band of companies with 100-500 employees… As a rule of thumb, an average company generates about 100k / employee, at least they did when Scott went to business school in 2002. There are 90 friggin thousand companies in the US with 10M-50M in revenue. These companies can […]