“I was a latchkey kid and nobody was there for me” said the GenXr, as if it was a good excuse for not providing leadership or mentorship his Millennials aka GenY, employees. The Millennial workforce, leads in social media, typically got more attention from their parents, even to the point of coddling. How do the new…
The first stop on the Salty Waffle tour of the ‘other networks’, as were calling them is LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the fourth largest social network in the United States after Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Compared to most social networks, LinkedIn has a very business oriented feel and the profiles are simplistic and styled more like…
Written by Cameron Madill of Synotac Web Design Writing for the web is maybe the single most important factor in generating results from your website, and yet it is often one of the most overlooked elements of design. What results you say? Good web copy can raise your website’s conversion rate as much as 100%. In…
It is very appropriate that the word entrepreneur has the letter ‘e’ in it so many times. One big thing entrepreneurs need is another word starting with the same letter: energy. The physical and mental stamina required to get through a day in the life of a business owner is immense. Entrepreneur’s Organization‘s, Gerry Morton…
When I returned from my daily walk, Sara was drawing. She wanted to help me with my business, so she drew some pictures of things that she could do to make money and things that I could do to make money. After all that’s what business is, making money doing things that you like to,…
I’m reading here that Skype is finally going public and I had been meaning to talk about a great experience I had recently involving the king of VOIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol). A few weeks ago I had the problem of trying to meet up with some great guys you will soon be hearing about over…
Last Friday we had a meeting with my Dev team for BigRuby, which is our software that we are building for Salty Waffle. It’s live beta right now and you can check it out for free, but it’s not as intuitive as we want it to be. The frustration hurts my head when we meet,…
In recent years I have tried to be more adventurous, more spontaneous, and even more daring at times. I had a great experience my first year at University of Washington that would eventually result in me meeting most of my now best friends. It was one of the first days of school and I wanted…
In school, I took a class called ‘Creating a Company’. We were responsible for starting, funding, and running a profitable business in less than six months. We were free to try almost anything, make mistakes, just as long as we were constantly looking for answers as to why certain things happened the way they did. When…
The 4th of July not only marks Independence Day and one of my favorite holidays for me, it also marks the birthday of one of my best little friends. His name is Josh and he is my next door neighbor’s 7 year-old darling son. I have known him since the day he was born and…