5 Things I’ve Learned Since Quitting my Job a Year Ago
5 Things I’ve Learned Since Quitting my Job a Year Ago
A year ago I quit a job that was comfortable to join a partner in building a business of our own; NorthIQ.
He had been doing it for some time prior, but it had gotten to a tipping point - he needed help that was greater than me pitching in during the evenings. If we were going to make this happen it had to be right then.
Read MoreMeet the new NorthIQ offices
Meet the new NorthIQ offices
NorthIQ has been around for nearly three years now. We’ve been a remote company, when I first launched, I worked from my own home office, and when Craig came on board in May of 2017, he worked from his home office - we called them the Oakridge and Sunningdale offices respectively. We have met in each other’s homes, in coffee shops, and in rented meeting rooms.
Read MoreWhat do you value?
What do you value?
Company values are a big deal, especially in the initial stages of a company. You need to ask yourself what your end goal is. What are you trying to build? What does your company stand for?
Read MoreWhy we left Medium, a cautionary tale
Why we left Medium, a cautionary tale
Our Manage Comics blog was recently suspended by Medium for no justifiable reason. To date the only explanation we have been given is that we were accidentally caught in their spam filter.
This caused a huge impact on our business, saw our page rankings plummet, created dozens of orphaned links from sites that had referenced us, and left us scrambling to solve a problem that our vendor has not been able to give us a reasonable explanation behind.
Read MoreFeatured Projects:
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