Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
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Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
Delegation isn't something that comes easy for me. But as such things go, running a team of 23 talented individuals [http://www.woothemes.com/2012/04/growing-globally-from-humble-beginnings/] means that you either sink or delegate (swim). So delegation has been an evolving skill for me in recent years; one that I
WooThemes has become a Mothership. A team of almost 20, more than 150 000 users and revenues / profits that most business owners would approve of. This is fantastic of course until the engine breaks, because I'm not necessarily able to fix the engine and neither are my co-founders. See -
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post titled "The Challenges of The Business Guy" [http://adii.me/2011/04/the-challenges-of-the-business-guy/], which basically details my own, non-technical role within WooThemes. This means that my daily job doesn't include designing or developing anymore, even though I'm still heavily involved in
I'm the "business" guy / co-founder over at WooThemes. Our business has 3 co-founders and over the years all 3 of us have evolved our roles to focus on the specific parts of the business of which we're most passionate about. When we started the company, we were bootstrapping and as
I found this article so incredibly valuable, purely because this has been something that I've always struggled with. Running & co-owning 2 companies for 3+ years now, you'd think that I'd be able to delegate with my eyes closed, yet that's not close to the truth... In both companies, we have