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.
I'm limited. My skills are finite. Regardless of how many new things I learn, my skills set is not limitless. This obviously means that there is only a limited number of things in my life that I will be truly good at. Some skills I may be able to enhance
Everyone is working to hard. I include myself in that statement: I work too hard most of the time. Heck, in my average week I make compromises with regards to my health, my home life, my marriage and all of my friendships. All for the sake of working harder. But
A couple of weeks ago I was wondering out loud whether I might just be a one-hit wonder [http://adii.me/2011/03/one-hit-wonder/]. The fact that I did not share at that time, was that I had already made the decision to close down Radiiate [http://radiiate.com] (my
Life changes so quickly... I can finally (publicly) share that Jeanne & I are 9 weeks pregnant and expecting our baby later this year. We've known for a couple of weeks, but waited for our first doctor's appointment before sharing the news with the world. Heck, to say that the last
I was recently interviewed on Bandwidth Blog [http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/07/adii-woothemes-premium-wordpress-themes/] about WooThemes' growth & strategy along with all of the other projects that I've been working on.
I have often wondered what defines me as an entrepreneur: Is it the fact that I've managed to co-found a genuinely successful and profitable company (WooThemes)? Or the fact that I've tried my hand at quite a few other projects and ideas along the way? Can I be considered successful
I just read this great post - "When you want to quit because it’s just not worth it" [http://blog.asmartbear.com/startups-emotionally-draining.html] - about how it's generally pretty shitty being an entrepreneur if you consider all of the emotional ups & downs you have to endure. As I
Tweets like this [https://twitter.com/#!/spinzer/status/42655478546829312] makes everything so much more worthwhile. :)
I'm an ambitious guy, which means that I'm currently working on a bunch [http://woothemes.com] of [http://radiiate.com] different [http://aboard-entrepreneurship.com] projects [http://cf-oh.com] (to name only a couple). And on top of this, I'm hiring a new Rails developer [http://jobs.github.com/positions/1fcbac54-384a-11e0-9359-fce06054f07e]
Wish I could say "No" more often. For me, this would mean I can probably balance the different spheres of my life a little better and contain them in their own, little boxes.