by heatherdevaun | Oct 18, 2021 | Business & Product, Business advice from a dog
My dogs have an amazing ability to be still most of the day. Mostly they nap beside me or at my feet while I work. We go outside a few times a day and they run around, wrestle, and chase sticks; sometimes they chew their toys or chase a ball, and after work we go to...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 18, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
My first “grown up job” was in Operations, so I have a particular nostalgia for this area of business. In the 6 years I worked preparing for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games I was fortunate to work with some amazing professionals. I was fortunate to work in...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 12, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
After you’ve refined your concept, it’s time to get ready to launch. I’ll call this stage The Runway–because that’s what it’s called. This is where you get funding and get your product to market. The length of your runway is...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 3, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP, Worth Reading
Jim Collins published Good to Great in 2001. Two decades later, I still refer back to it regularly because it’s built on solid principles that still apply. The whole book is great (get it?) but there are three things that influence my thinking nearly every day...
by heatherdevaun | Oct 3, 2021 | Place Going & Thing Doing
This year I crossed off a bucket list item when we went to Crete: The Minoan Palace at Knossos. We couldn’t have gone at a better time. The crowds were still low thanks to COVID travel-hesitancy, and the weather was cool and moody. The clouds sat over the hills...
by heatherdevaun | Sep 28, 2021 | WordPress
Understanding what (and where) people are doing/clicking on your website is essential in order to ensure you’re connecting with your users and to plan your site’s evolution. There are a few tools I use regularly to do this: Hot Jar and Google Analytics....
by heatherdevaun | Sep 28, 2021 | Family History
I’ve started a new website dedicated to Sartor family history. In my head I know that I’m too busy to take this on. But I just have this nagging feeling that I need to do it. I know how, I have the resources. If I don’t do it, who will? So I did it....
by heatherdevaun | Sep 28, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
Also called a 1-page business plan, the Lean Canvas is a concise way to organize and communicate key concepts regarding your venture. (See Running Lean and Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya) The Lean Canvas is more like an executive summary than a total business plan. Mark...
by heatherdevaun | Sep 28, 2021 | Business & Product, CROP
Every day we experience some kind of pain or friction. On a scale from “Meh” to “I cannot even deal with this” meltdowns, the Dread Pirate Roberts nailed it when he said “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling...
by heatherdevaun | Sep 27, 2021 | Business & Product
Adam Smith introduced the metaphor of an invisible hand guiding economic forces when collectively, individuals shape the economy by exchanging their money for something they value more. Acting individually, they collectively contribute to what we would now call...
