5 Years Ago Last Week…
Five years ago last week we left New York City and moved to our new home in Staunton, Virginia (pop. 22,000!). Damn! It seems like a lifetime. Almost immediately we started developing our business. We opened George Bowers Grocery in November that year. The journey has been transformative. It’s been incredibly hard and painful at [...]
‘Caveat Emptor’ Becomes ‘Caveat Venditor’ (You Win)
The new ABC’s of selling — and why it applies to you, now.
Make Money Come Back to You
The Atlantic wrote a distressing story this week, Why Twenty-Somethings Aren’t Doomed to Be Poor (but Thirty-Somethings Might Be). It pointed out what we already know: our economic reality has fundamentally shifted. Those of us who are 30-somethings — especially those of us who followed the “American religion” of getting an education, buying a house, etc., [...]
How Our Business Got in the NYT This Week
One tool we used to get mentioned in The New York Times — and how you can build your own to do the same.
These Days Will Test You
Today is the day we learn what happens next. Of course, you can say that about any arbitrary day. Daily decisions and habits form your life. So does random chance and patterns unseen. But in a cold hospital the point is made even clearer. Will you choose Decision A? How about Decision B? What if [...]
The $200B ‘Fancy Chicken Coop’ Contingent Williams-Somona & Urban Outfitters Are Courting (& You’re Living)
It’s not your father’s “Gentleman Farmer” world. Williams-Sonoma and Urban Outfitters have only discovered part of the trend. Meg Hall of Cheese to You is an example.
Can Four People Use Retirement Savings to Restore an Entire Town? (Keddie, California)
Four ambitious investors start work to revitalize a rural output marred by an infamous unsolved murder.
Goals: Here; Now; Business; Personal {…it’s all personal}
A selection of indie business owners share their personal and professional goals for 2013 — and one theme in particular came up.
How Do You Fight Frustrations?
A reader asks what is frustrating. Rather than go on at length here are some routes around common gripes.
Planning for Successful Failure, Point A to Point B
“I’ve got to suck it up and accept I’m a beginner. I’ll probably be terrible at this for awhile. Perhaps a long while. And, I might look like a damn fool.”
