Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.
A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.
I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.
I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.
The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.
People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
Sorry to hear about your Dad. " He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him. " "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.
There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.