I have been a huge supporter of Adobe Fireworks for a few years now. I also recently started connecting with some like minded people on Twitter and landed myself on fireworksinterviews.com as a result.
Head over to my interview page and find out a bit more about Fireworks and the people that advocate it!
I recently had a chat to the clever folks over at Heavy Chef about Hand Crafted CSS, the South African CSS job market, my heroes in the industry and my business.
One of my favorite go to resources as a designer. Quality freebies, updated regularly.
There is a new kid on the block and I believe that this startup is going to take off like a Rocket! BoxRockit, still a very young startup, is the answer to selling digital products online, easily.
Sell anything digital like eBooks, videos, digital art, photography, fonts, software using one channel (Twitter) to engage, inform, share, market and sell…
Quickly, easily, cheaply.
I really cant stress how easy it is to sell your “stuff” online. You dont need a website or any of the things associated with online e-commerce. All you need is a digital product.
How many resources are designers and developers, photographers and writers sitting on? I say it’s time to get all that stuff online and make some cash with it, right? Let’s face it, you already spend hours gaining followers on Twitter anyway, now you can sell your products to them!
Basically to put it in a nutshell:
If you have any questions regarding BoxRockit please visit the BoxRockit FAQ page or tweet them @BoxRockit or you can just contact me (@pweingartz) on Twitter.
Creativity to me is the process of creation fueled by inspiration, guided by convention and stifled by intervention.
Paul Weingartz
Someone asked me today to define creativity. Staying true to my analytical nature I came up with the somewhat pessimistic quote above.
Can’t sell enough of what you’re trying to sell? Then you’ve got to shutdown and try something else.
Spencer Fry
Solid state hard drives fail. A lot. And not just any fail. I’m talking about catastrophic, oh-my-God-what-just-happened-to-all-my-data instant gigafail. It’s not pretty.
Jeff Atwood
What a fitting title for a short brainfart. I know I’m over a month late and I’ll probably be stabbed 23 times for it. If you don’t get that joke then I suggest you put down that xbox controller and go watch some History Channel.
I want to just Ask a quick question about startup ideas and being too late. I recently had a few cracking ideas and have found that most of the good ones have been taken! Some of them have been for profit and others just for fun. it just feels like every time I get a good idea and I think I’m being creative and unique, it usually only takes a quick google search to find that someone has already done it in some way or another.
So my question is: If you can do it better than the last guy, should you go for it?
I mean, is it really worth completely writing off a legitimate business idea just because someone else has already got something out there that is similar? My guess is that the answer is not as clean cut as I think because each idea and circumstance will be unique.
If the premium WordPress theme market is anything to go by then I guess I have my answer.
I think this topic warrants some discussion. What do you think?
I found a very nice article on Adii’s blog that hit home with me immediately. It discusses the equity distribution in a new startup. A topic that is often not handled correctly from the beginning of a new venture. This is usually because all logic gets lost somewhere in the romantic notions that you dream up for your new venture. This is something that I can definitely relate too and I just thought that Joel Spolsky, creator of Stackoverflow.com put the whole issue into words very nicely.
Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because “it was my idea,” or because “I was more experienced” or anything else.
Im definitely a total novice when it comes to business and startups so I’m still absorbing any useful advice at a million miles per hour. I might not have a successful startup or two under my belt (like Adii) but I do have a failed one in there somewhere. I reckon that counts for something.
I definitely wish that I had come across this article a few months earlier… Or do I?
I actually dont know if it would have made any difference because sometimes banging your head against a brick wall is better than any advice out there. I can vouch for the validity of Joel’s words of wisdom. It’s not very often that you get someone out there willing to call a spade a spade.
Read the full Q&A on Answers onStartups.com
WordPress allows me to be agile in my quoting and the clients I decide to take onboard. A definite plus for any startup.