Treehouse Blog

I’ve been trying a new strategy and holy biscuits, am I getting a lot done. Every day, I grab about 10 things off my “This Week” list and put them on my “Today” list. Then (and this is the key)…

When your business is small, you should focus 100% on your cash flow. However, when you start to grow and cash isn’t as tight, it’s really important to get to know your balance sheet. For those who don’t know, a…

I used to hate the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. The whole concept sounded really selfish and almost a little “dirty”. Then my mom (who is the antithesis of selfish) mentioned that she had…

I was browsing TechCrunch today and was surprised to see an article about DropSend (one of our web apps) called “Anatomy of a Failed Merger“. It’s about my writeup of the failed DropSend-YouSendIt acquisition. As I said in the comments,…

Happy new year everyone! Hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I’m a big believer in setting goals. If you don’t do this, there’s no way to measure if your life is heading in the direction you want it to…

We’re launching two new events, in addition to The Future of Web Apps: Future of Web Design (FOWD) Future of … (can’t tell you yet!) The Future of Web Design is in London and our other event is going to…

Here’s the latest on the DropSend sale … YouSendIt, one of the big buyers, has dropped out. Here’s the whole story. It started at Web 2.0 I received an email from Khalid Shaikh, one of the founders of YouSendIt, asking…

Sheesh kebab! We are reaping a whirlwind of pain for not having a proper dev environment setup for FOWA. Here’s the problem: when we launched the site, it was just Gill (my wife and co-Director of Carson Systems) and I…

I recently ran across Dave Seah’s Printable CEO and I love it. It gave me a great idea for my to-do list. Instead of prioritizing my to-dos for the day, I give them a point value of ten, five or…