Moving Wishery.com to WordPress Bootstrap Theme

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I’ve had a fun day moving the Wishery.com website, which is run on WordPress and hosted by ZippyKid, to the WordPress Bootstrap theme. I really like the look of Bootstrap, and I’m rapidly getting comfortable with its layout and formatting conventions. I’ve had to make a few tweaks to the WordPress Bootstrap theme code, like… Read more »

Launching Soon: Wishery, a Lean Startup

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For the past few months I’ve been hard at work on Wishery, my latest startup. Wishery will offer tools that transform customer support into marketing, for the 2MM+ SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) on Google Apps. Our first tool will help companies that do email marketing more efficiently handle the replies to their campaign emails…. Read more »

CrashPlan Makes Backups Easy and Free – Want Help Getting Started?

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Backing up your computer(s) is one of your most basic responsibilities – it should rank right up there with food, shelter, and companionship as a necessity of human existence. Without backups, you could lose everything – all your digital photos, all your documents, potentially all your emails, all your music, etc. Even if you do… Read more »

Starting Your Own Food Business

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Years ago my friend Gordon and I started Califa Foods. Our original intention was to commercialize his family’s recipe for caponata, an eggplant based sauce/relish. Along the way, we learned a lot, but never did produce the caponata. Recently I saw some folks on Hacker News asking for information about starting a packaged food business… Read more »