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 published a complete overview tour of the new WooThemes dashboard experience [http://www.woothemes.com/2011/09/a-tour-of-the-new-woothemes/] earlier today, and since this project has been my little baby (more like a ten ton gorilla, but let's leave it at that), I wanted to share some of the thoughts
Obvious answer: we had no money and probably didn't know enough or think far enough to consider outside funding (not that I think we would've gotten it had we look for it). But seeing this post - Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups [http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/09/01/ten-highly-successful-bootstrapped-startups/
I don't really believe in titles within company context much and to this extent we've avoided using titles over at WooThemes [http://adii.me/2010/08/907987773/] . But I recently realized that sometimes a title of sorts does become valuable. In the last couple of weeks, I've been speaking to
In the last couple of days - more so than ever before - I just realized again how much I've grown up as a person, entrepreneur and also as the co-founder of WooThemes (where we're releasing our 100th theme tomorrow [http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/teasing-number-100/]). This brings about
On Monday we launched a brand-new user dashboard at WooThemes [http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/this-is-the-new-woo/] (which felt like suicide [http://adii.me/2011/08/committing-startup-suicide/] at the time) and it's not been without the expected launch bugs [http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/the-new-dashboard-growing-pains/]. I've learnt in the
I'm typing this as WooThemes prepares to roll out on of our biggest projects to date and I can't help to remind myself of all of the articles that suggests rewriting one's code is like committing startup suicide [http://steveblank.com/2011/01/25/startup-suicide-–-rewriting-the-code/] (more here [http://venturebeat.
I hate feeling like things are in limbo; especially in business. I guess this is a natural consequence of the fact that I'm not the most patient guy you're likely to ever meet. At the moment, it feels like we're working on 4 / 5 of the biggest projects ever at
I recently ran an extensive user survey at WooThemes to get some validation for ideas that we were toying with for a new marketing strategy. One of the aims of the new strategy is to increase customer lifetime value (and related metrics such as user engagement & user retention), and so
I'd like to share a recent exchange I had with a customer: 1. Customer notes to us that he is struggling to achieve something with our product. 2. We explain that this is currently a limitation, but immediately update & release a new version of the product to help the customer
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