Over the next few days I will be making a series of posts debunking what I perceive to be the myths of starting and running a business. If you want to contribute please feel free to do so by replying or posting in your own venue and letting me know the link (ala Newly Digital). Enjoy!

Always fashionably late to the party, silverorange has decided to jump into the blogging/development community with both feet. The silverorange labs is a place for all of us at silverorange to share with the development community our thoughts, ideas, problems, and technology. It's hot off the …

On a neighboring blog this week Jevon posted “Shifting Focus”, an examination of what web and IT companies in our political and geographical region need to do in order to become successful exporters. Extremely paraphrased, it pointed out the need for companies in our area to partner in order to …

In the hideously designed, poorly written get-rich-slow book, “Rich Dad Poor Dad” hides many valuable insights into financial matters. One that has come to mind as of late is the measurement of wealth. The author, Robert T. Kiyosaki, points out that wealth should not be a measure of money but a …

Today a coworker and I spent the better part of the afternoon discussing the ideals we have for business, code, religion, life, etc. As the discussion began to deepen and widen we started to become amazed at the similarities of the foundations for all of these seemingly different arenas in life …

For some reason unknown to me I am occasionally asked to speak to groups of people. Sometimes it has been for personal causes (valedictorian) and religious/spiritual reasons (churches, etc), but mostly it has been about entrepreneurship and silverorange.  •  Two of my favourite speeches:  •  1997 …

A few months back I had the pleasure of reading Good to Great by Jim Collins. While the title and the cover design may seem cheap and cheesy the contents of the book were anything but. While it looks, feels, smells, and reads like a book it is actually a research paper five years in the making …

While enjoying a fine pub in Ottawa a few weeks ago, two coworkers and I stumbled onto a conversation regarding customer service. The rule of thumb for most, if not all, service oriented positions & companies is “the customer is always right”. Our conversation started to disagree with this law of …

It starts off like a terrible joke that you would overhear at an overpriced networking event. There were two lawyers, an accountant and a CEO on a golf course. Unfortunately for me, and fortunately for you, I was that CEO and this story is entirely true.  •  It was a sunny day in June 2002 and I …