I started my career at EDS, a rigid software company founded by Ross Perot. EDS was sort of a pioneer in the software world and prided themselves on process. In a lot of ways, it felt like I had joined the military. They had their way of doing things and they wanted it done that way. The […]
Tag Archives: business
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Nov
Nov
I own an office/warehouse a few miles from my house. I had that building built for Vitabase about ten years ago and leased it out after I sold Vitabase. One of the tenants in that space is leaving in a few months so yesterday, I went into the building again for the first time in a […]
When I left college, I started my career as a software engineer. I was good at software and quickly won the respect of my peers and management. Within a few years, I was informally running the entire department from a technical perspective and my managers made a fateful mistake: they made me a manager. I lasted less than […]
Four years ago, I wrote a post here on this blog that I still think about from time to time. It is a post about debt in business and is my personal story about business debt. Read it here: https://greghowlett.com/blog/thoughts/083012.aspx Since I wrote that post, the company (Vitabase) that I was talking about sold. It was a […]
First of all, congratulations to James Burton for winning the free copy of The Emyth Revisited that I mentioned in my last business post. James, send me your address to [email protected]. One other bit of housekeeping: I was glad to see that the new season of Shark Tank has started. If you want an entertaining […]
A few weeks ago, I discussed my children’s business in the basement and I was surprised at how many of you responded positively, asking for more business posts. Others asked for advice on different business matters. So, I think I will do a series on business over the coming months (along with my series on […]
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Three years ago, I sold Vitabase, a nutritional supplement company we had built from the ground up. When I sold, I assumed I was out of the health business for good. However, there were a few websites not associated with that sale that we held on to and we moved that business into the basement and gave it to the kids […]
I love business and I am glad I am often asked for business advice especially about internet retail. I got a request for advice earlier this week about a website and it prompted me to write this post because what I told him might be helpful to a lot of other people too. This post is going […]
Many of you know that I sold a company called Vitabase last year. Vitabase was my main focus for the past fifteen years. In fact, we built an office/warehouse for it a few miles from my house. When I sold Vitabase, they originally wanted to stay in the building so I could be around to […]
A quick editors note up front: I hope you guys will be patient with me when I write about topics outside of music. My strategy here has always been to write about things of interest to me and based on the feedback I get, a lot of you like it when I stray from music. […]
I saw this image floating around the internet today and it made me pause. Then I started asking myself if this witty saying is really true? Is entrepreneurship really like jumping off a cliff and building a plane on the way down? The answer is no. Don’t get me wrong. That may be the way […]