“That sense that you could kinda build something on your own…” – David Karp
This video is from a collaborative original series between Fast Company and Cartier featuring in-depth interviews with today’s most innovative entrepreneurs. David Karp is the founder of Tumblr, a blogging platform that launched in New York City in 2007.
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To answer the question in the title very briefly… lots.
I know a post like this can be quite clichéd and I have even tweeted about it while writing it.
I have been a busy boy blogging, creating videos, developing websites and being awesome.
I have started blogging for the company I work for, The BlueBox. I usually blog about web development on The BlueBox platform. You can check it out here – http://blueboxwebdev.tumblr.com/ – if you are interested in that sort of thing.
Unfortunately I haven’t done much reading although I am slowly working my way through, The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I was sold when I saw the trailer for this book.
I also took a much needed family vacation at the end of April down the lovely south coast of KZN, South Africa, that was a real treat and I even went to the Waffle House.
During the past two months, I have launched 2 more websites for my business Smashing Web Development. I completed the Wesley Methodist Church and the AHvR websites, and I am very proud of them both.
I have done some awesome work with Julie Patrick and I am really looking forward to getting stuck into the new ARISEFEST website for this year. By the way Julie is amazing at taking photo’s. Below is the new design/poster for this years festival.
That’s it for now, hopefully it won’t be another two months until my next post.
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I found these 11 points by Chris Guillebeau while reading the PDF report, A brief guide to world domination on http://chrisguillebeau.com.
Aslo check out this post – How to Be Unremarkably Average.
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Shocking, I have just seen that I didn’t post a single article on this blog during the month of November.
I wasn’t even growing a “mo” so I can’t use that as an excuse.
Here is a list of things that kept me busy during November:
I’m not sure how December is going to go with regard to blog posts but we will see what happens.
What have you been up to?
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One of my favourite tumblr blogs is Startup Quote, I love quotes and business, this blog combines both perfectly!
It produces the most insightful quotes with lovely images.
Here is one of my favourite quotes:
The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.
You can follow Startup Quote on twitter @startupquote.
And the best part about this blog is that you can submit your own quotes at http://startupquote.com/submit, speaking of which, I was inspired tonight chatting to one of my customers from Smashing Web Development. It made me think up this:
“How do you know if your product/service is great? Your customers become your sales force.”
What do you think? If you think it’s good enough to go on the Startup Quote blog then please submit it for me via twitter by tweeting this:
Submit @StartupQuote How do you know if your product/service is great? Your customers become your sales force. – Tyron Bache
Thank you so much!
Do you have any wise startup quotes?
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I was inspired by the short but awesome chapter entitled, “Be a starter”, from the brilliant 37 Signals book Rework.
I am a 23 year old web developer, blogger, I do what I love and I own property. I believe that I am a part of a new generation of young people who believe in themselves. It’s 2011 I can do anything I want, I can become who I choose to be.
To steal a line from an awesome poem:
“I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
And you know what you can be to! You don’t need to go to varsity (I didn’t), you don’t need a MBA (waste of time unless you like following the herd) or lots of money (but that helps, I have enough to get by).
“You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.”
Rework, page 28
So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start something!
If you are young and have got something really cool started please show me, I’d love to feature you on my blog but if you have an idea and haven’t started it then don’t read anything else until you have.
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Busy is one way of saying it, although I think I just became bored of my blog. Bored of the way it looked and I think I lost the vision that I had for it and I wasn’t really blogging what I set out to blog about but that has come to pass. Let me tell you what I have done to try and light that blogging fire of mine once again.
I changed my hosting from Hetzner to Serve in order to save a few bucks. I changed my blog theme to Voidy, I was playing with the idea of creating my own but stumbled across Voidy one evening and I was sold, not literally as it was free but you know what I mean. I think sometimes in order to fill up your inspiration bucket you need something new. I imported all of my old posts so I now feel like I have something new/old, a new look but still with a a similar taste, clean, white and content focused layout.
I can’t wait to get back into my blogging and I am hoping to do more regular posts. I have got a whole bunch of really awesome content to blog about so keep your eyes peeled (love that idiom) and some new projects that I am working on to show you guys. Thanks for reading.
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Hello, my name is Tyron Bache. This is my personal blog, the views (remarkable, biased, opinionated, stupid & impulsive) expressed on these pages are mine alone unless otherwise stated. Proud co-founder of Smashing Web Development. I am a starter, I love the web and creating things for it!
