Nov 22Member-onlyHow to “Up-Design” Your WebsiteHow we “new and improved” One Hundred Tables This is Part 6 of 6. You made it! See the story from the beginning here. Several years into it we decided it was time to to a 100% redesign to onehundredtables.com using everything we learned from running the site worldwide to…Entrepreneurship5 min readEntrepreneurship5 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyLearning what works and what doesn’t.Launch, test, see, learn, adapt. This is Part 5 of 6. You can pick up the story at the beginning here. Now that we had 50 of the 100 cities open and over 1,000 restaurants showcased on the site, we started to have a real, living experiment in place where…Entrpreneurship6 min readEntrpreneurship6 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyThe Word Starts to SpreadPutting a focus on growing your startup Note: This is Part 4 of 6. You can go to Part 3 of the story here. After we launched One Hundred Tables in February 2013, we set out to build the business and grow the site each month afterwards. Remember that entering…Entrepreneurship5 min readEntrepreneurship5 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyPushing the Button on the idea.Go to Launch. Note: This is Part 3 of 6. You can see on Part 2 here. With all the creative design work completed and the wireframes done, we needed to move on to the backend programming of the site. We decided to have the site built in Python and…Entrepreneurship9 min readEntrepreneurship9 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyEvolution of the online business idea.The work that goes into taking your idea from paper to reality. Please note: This is part 2 of 6. You can read Part 1 here. WHO”S GOING TO BUILD THIS? In order to build the site, I needed to find people who could get it done. I was bootstrapping…Entrpreneurship7 min readEntrpreneurship7 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyI built a $1m online passive income business from scratch and then closed it.This is the story of a million dollar business idea I had in 2011, drew up on paper, found the right partner to help build it out technically, launched it, ran it for 10 years, and then shut it down in 2022. Have you ever thought about what your perfect…Entrepreneurship9 min readEntrepreneurship9 min read
Jul 4Member-onlyAmericans and the Supreme CourtToo many Americans have forgotten how the 3 branches of government work. Maybe they never learned? We all have opinions of what we think should be “the way”, but the idea of the Supreme Court is to ideally rise above feelings and opinion and adjudicate strictly considering “is the thing…Supreme Court7 min readSupreme Court7 min read
Apr 23Member-onlyAmericans need to learn how to eat — Stat.Walk into any grocery store, doctor’s office, or fast food restaurant in the USA and you won’t just see obese people, you will see “deformed” people. They’re not just “grandma fat”, they are deformed the way a balloon looks if you pinch one end and pop the air into the…Supplements5 min readSupplements5 min read
Mar 8Member-onlyThe 3 huge Covid lies we were told.Looking back across 2020 to 2023… and knowing what we know now, consider the following: Lie #1: We were told that the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines would prevent the spread of Covid-19 and also that the vaccinated couldn’t catch it. Lie #2: We were told masks would help prevent the spread of Covid-19. Lie #3: We were…Covid-198 min readCovid-198 min read
Feb 19Member-onlyAmericans have no clue what good coffee and food experience is.Is that a single cookie on display? LOL. Where are we Pyongyang? Havana? Walk into practically any Starbucks in the USA and you will see this standardized Starbucks food display. A single cookie and a dry burrito side by the side. WTF is wrong with the food culture in the…Starbucks5 min readStarbucks5 min read
