Although the year isn’t over yet, I have learned a lot of things that has helped me grow my businesses. Some of these things may seem like common sense to you and some may be new to you. Either way, here is what I have learned so far: Shoot for the stars and you’ll land on the moon As Donald Trump once said: I like thinking big. If you are going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. If you want to build a medium size company, you need to plan on creating a large company.

A few months back we decided we would port our Flash based Facebook application “Word Wrangler” to the iPhone. We’d made a strategic choice to invest in an up-and-coming platform and thought we would not only be able to grow our business faster for it, we thought would make a healthier business. So we invested the time and capital into the endeavor & created a product for the iPhone and iPod touch. All told, from start to finish it was about an eleven week endeavor.

Apple Has Some Important Lessons to Learn – theappleblog.com 08/31/2009 We love Apple. We love its style. We love its vision. We love its marketing and PR. A generation of the world’s best designers cut their teeth on Apple computers, much as they might dislike admitting their sense of taste was shaped by a consumer electronics company. In business, too, Apple has proven to be a visionary. Entrepreneurs often look to Apple for inspiration.

FAIRFIELD — Midmorning one Saturday, just over a week before the Sept. 1 special election in Iowa House District 90, the business district in this Jefferson County town was teeming with activity. Republican Stephen Burgmeier, left, and Democrat Curt Hanson are running to replace state Rep. John Whitaker in Tuesday’s special election. Campaign headquarters for both major-party candidates – Republican Steve Burgmeier and Democrat Curt Hanson – anchor two corners of the town square.

We love Apple. We love its style. We love its vision. We love its marketing and PR. A generation of the world’s best designers cut their teeth on Apple computers, much as they might dislike admitting their sense of taste was shaped by a consumer electronics company. In business, too, Apple has proven to be a visionary. Entrepreneurs often look to Apple for inspiration. Software startups the world-over are compelled to study Apple so as to learn how best to “do it” — whatever “it” may be.

With the passing of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock Music and Art Fair on August 15th, I thought I’d pass along this piece of Woodstock history. Via the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Enjoy.

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