A few years ago we switched our business banking & expense tracking to Found, and it’s made tax season way less stressful by making it “easy” to track, document, and estimate everything throughout the year, so that come tax season we don’t have to go line by line through every card swipe of the year scratching our head’s asking, “what it was actually spent on?”

Since we started using Stan Store (admittedly causally) we’ve brought in $901 in income. If you read our initial blog post about Stan Store we weren’t selling anything at that point but we had specific plans for three ways we intended to make money using Stan Store. Here’s the breakdown of what we’ve earned so far. I’m going to give you a look at how our 3 plans played out next.

By Lyndon We got coffee with some great people this week and while we were chatting they asked what we had learned in 2022. I realized that while Jo and I spend a lot of time reflecting and learning about what we do, that doesn’t always translate to things we share. So with that in […]

Re-evaluate how you use the term “brand” and how to make it effective. Guest Post: Meredith Gaston of ConfidentBrands.co What is Branding? You may have noticed that the term “brand” or “branding” has been thrown around to mean so many different things. It could mean a trademark, a logo, a product, or a service – […]

Last week I had a big realization: I built a business around other people’s needs, I didn’t think to build a business around my own needs. When I started this business, the motivation that fueled me was building a business that would give me flexibility in the case of other peoples’ emergencies. At the time […]

By Lyndon Update April 25, 2023: Follow up blog What We’ve Earned Using Stan Store I’d be willing to bet money that you have gone to someone’s profile on Instagram or TikTok just to follow the links found in their bio. This has basically become the industry standard at this point. A quick google search […]

By Lyndon When I was in grad school I worked for the admissions department, and my job was interviewing potential candidates for our MBA program. One of my favorite questions to ask people was, “What do you consider your biggest professional failure?” This achieved 2 things for me: It threw a curve ball It was […]

By: Lyndon For many people when you say AI they get visions of NS-5s from I, Robot, T-3000 from Terminator, or even the Matrix. They’re all very compelling visuals from Hollywood of how AI is the big bad taking over the world from a fear-based point of view. But what does AI look like in […]

By: Lyndon Some people treat their social media like a slot machine. Each day they go onto the platform, insert their money (your post for the day), pull the lever (post), and watch what happens in hopes of winning. On good days they get all 7s and a post does super well; other days they […]