Author Archives: Charlie B

How To Improve Website Performance (With Drupal, PHP, MySQL and Apache)

Recently, when my new website security scanning startup site launched, I was inundated with traffic – receiving several thousand hits in the space of a few hours. Coupled with several  website security scans my site was running, and the load … Continue reading

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New Business Launched – Golem Technologies

After many months of work, I have finally officially launched Golem Technologies, a website and web application security scanning SAAS application. This is designed to be the world’s easiest security scanner, offering one click scanning (only enter a URL and … Continue reading

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5 Tips for Starting a New Job

In my last post, discussing how to reduce stress related to work, I mentioned that I have recently been offered a promotion, which brings with it a host of new challenges and opportunities. Along with the positive, comes a lot … Continue reading

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Dealing with Stress in Your Small Business Startup

Lately, I have been feeling overly stressed. A number of good things have been happening to me, but along with those good things comes stress. Recently, my company offered me a promotion, which brings with it a host of new … Continue reading

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Conventional Wisdom Will Kill You

I heard this phrase at a creativity seminar, and it caught my eye. Conventional wisdom exists to help mitigate risks. In business, we often use conventional wisdom to reject ideas quickly, but this can be a critical mistake. Some high … Continue reading

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Going Solo: How Much Income Do You Really Need?

If you are like me, and dream of starting a successful small online business one day so you can truly be self employed, it helps to know ahead of time what constitutes success. If you read my about page, one … Continue reading

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Personal Strategic Planning

If you want to accomplish something, it helps to set down your goals in writing. I have never been a fan of New Years Resolutions, but I do find the end of year to be a good breaking point to … Continue reading

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Modern Day Careerism

A lot of people talk about starting their own business. A small percentage of those people actually work towards it, and an even smaller percentage actually manage to start something. Why is this? I was recently in a meeting for … Continue reading

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Web Programming Best Practices

Recently, Patrick had a great post on web coding best practices. I wanted to echo some of his points, and enhance it with a few of my own.  As products have moved to the web, I think some of the … Continue reading

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A Social Media Strategy for Business

Last week, I wrote a blog post about my launch strategy and initial marketing efforts. One of the commenters, Robby Grossman, suggested I also use a social media strategy, which admittedly is something I have not done much planning for. … Continue reading

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