The week has been a stressful but fulfilling one. First, I'm grateful for modern medicine. We spent most of the last weekend in doctor's offices and the ER twice as our oldest son had a blood infection of strep and went septic. I'm so glad we have modern medicine and he is now doing well.
The rest of the week I have been able to work on my new small business trying to raise over $100 to help other in need. I have now shifted from doing custom t-shirts to doing custom vinyl stickers and logos. This will make my overhead much lower and be able to customize either without having the cost of different size and color shirts.
I was also able to listen to a great video called The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. In this small clip, he talks about what he calls the small dollhouse myth. In this myth, people think that startups and small businesses should just be smaller versions of big companies, and this just isn't true. He focuses on being lean and making sure we are efficient in making, what he calls, pivots, in our companies. I feel I did just that when pivoting from shirts to stickers and logos. It was an important move in my company without having to deal with things like a marketing division or talk to R&D.
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