Entrepreneurship

Power in Numbers: Building Your Startup’s Team

April 20, 2013 Entrepreneurship
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For many years I’ve worked tirelessly to build BiggerPockets.com up with a team that consisted of a programmer, and myself (my wife does the books, so I can’t ignore her important role) — a team that most would call LEAN! While he wrote code, I handled every other component of the business — sales, marketing, [...]

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Holy Cow! I’m Throwing a Conference: BiggerPockets REI Summit 2012 in Denver

December 3, 2011 Entrepreneurship

The announcement came two weeks ago, but since then I’ve been so swamped with getting my act together and with travel for the Thanksgiving holidays, that I didn’t have a chance to mention it here. On March 23-24, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center I am going to be throwing the [...]

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Seeking a Website Developer Position? Don’t Be Stupid!

March 9, 2011 Entrepreneurship

I recently posted on various rails job sites about a new open position available on BiggerPockets (BTW – If you’re a ruby on rails developer and are looking for work, please get in touch ASAP!). In going through the various replies, I came upon one that seemed interesting, but the developer didn’t supply me with [...]

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New Paid Directories and Other Online Products: Chicken or Egg?

November 30, 2010 Entrepreneurship
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We just launched a new product on BiggerPockets, a hard money lenders directory, and I’ve been pondering the challenges of getting a product like this off the ground. Lucky for us, our site has a nice built in audience of over 60,000 members and we’re approaching 200,000 monthly uniques, so I’m confident that we can [...]

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Stop Making Commitments When You Can’t Live Up to Them!

March 12, 2010 Entrepreneurship

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. On almost a daily basis, I run into a situation where someone made a commitment to me, and didn’t live up to it. It is tiresome, annoying, and flat out rude. I don’t pretend to be perfect, and I’m sure I’ve made my share of commitments that [...]

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Planning for the Unexpected and Startup Team Building

March 9, 2010 Entrepreneurship

Today was supposed to be a new beginning, but sometimes we have to deal with headaches from our past, and that appeared to be the case this morning, as I learned of a security hole that was causing bots to be able to spam parts of our site. The hole has since been closed, but [...]

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Catharsis

March 8, 2010 Entrepreneurship

According to Wikipedia, catharsis means a “cleansing”, “purging”, or “clarification.” I hope that today’s catharsis marks a new beginning for myself and my company, BiggerPockets. With that in mind, I hope to share the journey moving forward with the rest of you. I’ve ignored this blog for a long time, and I’ve really come to [...]

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How Often do You Clean Out Your WordPress Plugins?

July 27, 2009 Entrepreneurship

With every few upgrades of WordPress or so, I notice that there is no longer a need for one of the plugins that I’m using. In may cases, WordPress itself has integrated the functionality that the plugin was designed for. Occasionally, I’ll note that one of my plugins has become relatively useless to me or [...]

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Feeling Pain Over a $10 T-Shirt? NOPE, But Principles Matter in Business!

January 25, 2009 Entrepreneurship

A few months ago I decided BiggerPockets.com would be a sponsor for a Real Estate Event that was slated to occur in mid-October. This was to be a one day real estate technology-themed event, and in return for the $250 sponsorship, we’d get our company name on the event’s website, and our logo on all [...]

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365 Days Left! The End of the Bush Reign is Only a Year Away!!!

January 21, 2008 Entrepreneurship

Get ready to party, everyone! A year from today, a new President of the United States will be Inaugurated! Let the great global countdown begin!

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Launching a New Social Networking Site for Real Estate – 2.0 Baby!

January 7, 2008 Entrepreneurship

Two days ago, I launched the latest update for my site, BiggerPockets . . . The BiggerPockets Real Estate Social Network After months of preparation, programming, problem-solving, we’re finally live! I’ve got to tell you . . . it is very exciting! If you haven’t been to the site, stop by. Not only is it [...]

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Great Video for The Techies Out There

December 5, 2007 Entrepreneurship

I’m probably WAY behind the times with this one, but I just saw it and got a real kick. It is Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” remade for the digital tech CEOs out there . . . very clever and entertaining! Here Comes Another Bubble

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Don’t Get Screwed! How to Hire and Manage Developers and Programmers.

October 21, 2007 Entrepreneurship

I just fired my latest web developer! Over the years, I’ve worked with quite a few programmers/developers on various projects I’ve wanted to develop. On the smaller projects, I’ve typically been very successful in finding people who can get the job done. Unfortunately, however, on the larger projects, I’ve had more failures than anything else. [...]

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Vacation

June 25, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Hey All . . . sorry about the lack of posting lately, but I’ve been on a much needed vacation! I’ll get a few occassional posts in before getting back, but I just wanted to give you all a head’s up here! I’ll be back in July so get ready!!! See you all then!

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Business Tip: Always Familiarize Yourself With Potential Partners

June 14, 2007 Entrepreneurship

It seems that every day I’ve got a new lesson to share about “playing well with others.” Today’s lesson involves dealing with people who get in touch with you in order to forge a new business relationship. Over the past few weeks I’ve been working the phones very hard, making new contacts, and trying to [...]

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