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Ready to Start A Business? Check Out Pre-Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Dec. 17
One of my passions is helping others live the dream of entrepreneurship that I have enjoyed for the past four years now with iThemes. During the time I’ve been a full-time entrepreneur I’ve had many friends, family and other acquaintances ask me about starting their own business — and living their dreams too. So on Dec. 17, along with 4 other season entrepreneurs and experts, we’re hosting Pre-Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at [...]
At iThemes, Making People’s Lives Awesome Means Web Design Made Easy
At iThemes, our mission is to make people’s lives awesome. In fact, we made a cool display of it in our headquarter’s lobby to remind our team of what we’re here to do each and every day. I know this type of statement is broad … and therefore needs some explanation, so I want to unpack it for you today to illustrate how our company and team fulfills this … [...]
iThemes to Offer $100K in Free WordPress Resources to Educators
After months of discussions and planning, I’m excited to finally announce our Education Program initiative, focusing on delivering high-quality web design tools and training to the education community. To kick off this initiative, we’re launching the iThemes Educators Program Beta with a pilot group of 100 educators — giving them our entire inventory of WordPress themes, plugins and training at NO COST. In essence, we’re giving away almost $100,000 in [...]
Friends of iThemes: Hosting a Great WordPress Meetup in OKC
We’re hosting some great WordPress designers, developers and entrepreneurs at iThemes in our Oklahoma City headquarters this week. We’re calling it our first Friends at iThemes uncamp. The purpose was just to gather our friends together in one place for a couple of days of coworking, collaboration and conversation. That’s the entire agenda besides eating some good food and enjoying each other’s company. Here are the following people here with [...]
Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb Visits the iThemes Offices
This morning, we were delighted to host a very special guest — Oklahoma’s Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb. Lt. Gov. Lamb stopped by to talk with us about our 3-plus year-old, Oklahoma City-based company, learn about what we do, how we are adding jobs and revenue in our state and to meet our team. In his role as lieutenant governor, he was charged by the Governor to be the “small business [...]
Matt Danner Named New Chief Operating Officer
As we continue to grow (we’ve added 5+ people in the last two months alone), we need to start establishing more of a leadership / management structure to help us do what we need to do in an efficient, productive manner at iThemes, PluginBuddy and WebDesign.com. For a while now, I’ve wanted to establish a Chief Operating Officer type of person that could be the “go-to” person when I’m out [...]
We Got Amazon Kindles for Our Team
At iThemes, one of our core values is: “Learn and Grow, then Teach and Share.” Our emphasis for our team as a whole and the individuals in it has been on lifelong learning and on continual improvement and growth. Our team and I readily acknowledge we have not “arrived” nor will we ever. We always have more to learn. More potential for growth and improvement. We can be better teammates, [...]
2011 State of iThemes Webinar May 19
As we roll into our fourth year of doing business (yes, we started this business in Jan. 2008), I’ve found increasingly how valuable it is to transparently communicate with our team and our community about why and how we do things. So this year, I’ll be sharing our 2011 State of iThemes and with it our strategic plan, core values and objectives for the rest of the year (and into [...]
We’re Hiring – Come Work With Us!
We’re always looking for talented people who fit with our unique culture and mission. So we just posted our new Jobs page here. We’re actively looking for a designer and a developer, among other roles. If you fit one of these and are willing to move to Oklahoma City, let us know by filling out the form on our Jobs page here.
Our Lightning Talk Replays from IgniteOKC
Matt Danner and I recently gave lightning talks at IgniteOKC and here are the video replays. I talked about why work shouldn’t be a four-letter word and Matt gave insights into how to be human in a web world, taking cues from our work with our customer community and offering tips.
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