Jackson Fish Market
Posted on May 21, 2009 by hillel on Design, Industry

Be Yourself, Advice from Conan O’Brien

Conan was interviewed in the New York Times about his shift to the Tonight show. The following quote is about entertainment, but I think it applies to any creative endeavor, or possibly, any human interaction: “In entertainment, you have to stake out what you think is right, you have to put out that signal, make […]

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Employee Performance Reviews Do More Harm Than Good

One of my favorite things about working at Jackson Fish Market is that we don’t have performance reviews. I suppose it’s easy cause there are three of us and we’re all founder/owners of the company. ;) But i believe that even once we do have more traditional employees we won’t have performance reviews. Mainly because […]

Posted on May 20, 2009 by hillel on Events, Small and Special

Flowers at Small and Special

Our mini-conference is just a few short weeks away. Small and Special, an afternoon for passionate small business owners (and aspiring entrepreneurs) is happening on Tuesday June 30, 2009 from 2pm-6pm in the Georgetown Ballroom in Seattle. We’ll have a total of eight speakers for the afternoon, six of which have already been announced. We’re […]

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Underdogs

The popular and prolific Malcolm Gladwell writes about underdogs in the New Yorker: “What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s […]