After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless)

As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. Now with kids it had become, “ I work to live .” I still loved what I did as an entrepreneur but I wasn’t working only for the sheer joy of it, I was also working to provide for my family and a longer term goal of retir

From accounting to customer service, from marketing to production, I ran my part-time “just me” design business with the strategic precision of a publicly traded company.

If you are a for-profit corporation, your job is to make money, and if you're not making money, you're not doing a good job. End of story. It's important to have fun, but once you incorporate for profit, my attitude is that you better make a profit. When I was trying to retake control of the company, most of the programmers at ArsDigita were so rel

As I got further into it, I realized that embracing the unusual parts of my background would be the key to making it through. It would be those things that would give me unique perspectives and approaches to the business. The things that I would bring to the table that nobody else had. It was my borrowing Chico Mendoza’s shocking yet poetic style t