Its Harder Than It Looks
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How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
Disclosure 1: I work in the vacation rental industry. While my company specializes in regional, recreational vacation homes, not metro rentals – there is an obvious conflict. Disclosure 2: This is an...
View ArticleWhat a Bootstrapper’s Pre-Launch Homepage Should Look Like
You have very little money. check. You have very few (if any) connections. check. You have no publicized exits. check. No one (that matters) knows who you are. check. If you agree with 2 or more points...
View ArticleSide Projects
Some guys like to tinker with cars and motorcycles. I like to tinker with websites. In 2009 I created a real estate review website covering Beverly Hills real estate over a weekend. Technology wise,...
View ArticleBootstrappers: How To Say “No”
Hi [VC Backed Director of Sales], I have enjoyed our conversations and I want to thank you for putting this proposal together for us. I discussed it with my business partner today, and while we can see...
View ArticleCompetition in Wisconsin
This is one of those neo-technical, non-interesting posts that is being used purely to advance our positions vs. some very large, well funded competitors. We recently sank to #2 for Wisconsin cabin...
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10 Years In
My business partner and I have been running LakePlace.com for almost 10 years now. Over the years we have “pivoted” our business model 3 times before we finally settled in. Our original goal was to...
View Article10 Inglorious Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
Note: I was holding off on posting this because I wanted to wait for our redesign to be finished…but alas, it is taking much longer than we thought it would…so as promised a while back, here is our...
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1994 Harley Davidson Sportster Bobber
Hacking a Harley Along with my dad, I had the great pleasure of presenting this bike to my little brother for his birthday this past weekend. My dad and I purchased the stock bike and parts 50/50…but...
View ArticleFacebook is creepy but…
Just a quick thought that popped into my head yesterday. I kind of hate facebook. Their data collection is beyond creepy – I personally believe it should be illegal. That being said, even though I...
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Just Launched DaneArthur.com
What? Minimalist (brutalist), really simple, really fast real estate search. Why? Buying a home is complicated business, finding one shouldn’t be. You’ll be browsing listings before most real estate...
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Just Launched CommercialZip.com
We just added a simple commercial real estate website to our fleet. CommercialZip allows investors and owner/users to quickly view all available commercial property listings in Minnesota &...
View ArticleSide Projects
Some guys like to tinker with cars and motorcycles. I like to tinker with websites. In 2009 I created a real estate review website covering Beverly Hills real estate over a weekend. Technology wise,...
View ArticleBootstrappers: How To Say “No”
Hi [VC Backed Director of Sales], I have enjoyed our conversations and I want to thank you for putting this proposal together for us. I discussed it with my business partner today, and while we can see...
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