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Day #21: It’s #9oclock ish AM on a Saturday…

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on July 21, 2012

Day #21: It’s #9oclock ish AM on a Saturday, and I’m sitting here doing research. An entrepreneur’s day is never over.

Top Creative Skills in Demand

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on June 8, 2012

Well, if this doesn’t put it into perspective, I don’t know what will. Creativity pays; give the people what they want. How many of these skills do you have?

Pandora One for Productivity

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur, Music, productivity | on January 12, 2011

Music keeps me working. It’s as if I do more work when music is playing in my ear. I finally end a “never-ending” conference call, and the appropriate “f*ck that b*atch” song comes on and I’m back in the swing of it all cursing and designing. It’s great. I usually have the Pandora website playing [...]

Using 43 Things for Goal Setting in the New Year

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on January 1, 2011

Last year was an interesting year for me. I learned a lot about my health and myself. I learned about the things I do like, as well as the things that I don’t like; whether it was about myself or the people around me. I’m not setting a New Years Resolution. It never works for [...]

POW: Scope Creep

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on August 12, 2010

Phrase of the week: Scope Creep Scope creep (also called focus creep, requirement creep, feature creep, function creep) in project management refers to uncontrolled changes in a project’s scope. This phenomenon can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered a negative occurrence, and thus, [...]

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Red Flag Lines: “My Web Designer Disappeared”

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on May 14, 2010

It happens often: a high maintenance client contacts you after their current web designer “magically disappeared”. The “my web designer suddenly disappeared” explanation (read: excuse) should be a red flag line for you. There isn’t that much magic in the world. It’s an illusion, remember? An illusion no greater than the idea of your current [...]

Things to do: Sign up for TeuxDeux

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur | on December 11, 2009

Online to-do list application TeuxDeux handles your todo list in a minimal, dead-simple interface that looks and works a lot like a paper journal.

One of the cool things about TeuxDeux is that – if the due date of a task is today and you don’t complete it in time (read: ADHD), it will automatically be added to your next day’s pending task list.

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LA Social Networking Examiner

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur, Girl Geek, Life Blogging, Social Media | on July 22, 2009

Just a note to let you guys know that I’ll be writing at the Examiner.com as LA Social Networking Examiner. I’m really excited to get started and will be doing a bit of crossposting as needed. We’ll see how it goes…God’s in control… Bookmark it, puhlease! ^_^ LA Social Networking Examiner Everything else in my [...]

Multiple Instances of Internet Explorer

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur, Girl Geek | on November 18, 2008

My hatred for Internet Explorer runs deep. But my need for sanity runs deeper. I installed Multiple IE on the Office Network today. Of course I had to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 first. Not fun in my opinion, but a necessary evil. Anything involving Internet Explorer is a headache. But I did what I [...]

Meet $data

By Courtney | In Entrepreneur, Girl Geek, Life Blogging | on October 31, 2008

Dear Readers… Meet $data (affectionately named by punchdouble). She’s small..she’s pink…and she’s been enhancing my life…for less than 24 hours. Her cover flip excites me. My blog posts have become more and more sparatic lately. I apologize. You’ll find me somewhere in between office and home on any given day – minus saturday and sunday. [...]