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Four Years and Counting on the Entrepreneurial Adventure at iThemes
In 2008 I started my entrepreneurial journey with the founding of iThemes. This month, in fact, is my four year anniversary of becoming a full-time entrepreneur and living my lifelong dream. Throughout the years as we’ve enjoyed our definition of success and others have seen it, I’ve been increasingly asked by friends and acquaintances about how they can get started in entrepreneurship. Thus, I started StartupSofa to be an online [...]
2011 Year in Review at iThemes
2011 has been an incredible year for iThemes, our team and our customer community. As I sit here on New Year’s Eve and reflect on the past 365 days or so, looking down a long list of things we’ve done, I can’t help but feel a sense of pride for our team’s work and how far we’ve come. It’ll be four years next month that I started iThemes in my [...]
Builder Birthday Bash in Pics
Last Friday we held a childhood-like birthday party for iThemes Builder. (We did it last year too!) At the Builder Birthday Bash, we had a pinata, 3-D birthday cake, Legos and a lot of good old fun, while streaming it to over 100 Builder customers around the world live AND meeting local customers who came by to say hi and be part of the fun (some of whom had bought [...]
Two New Showcase Sites in iThemes Builder
I’m super excited to share two personal sites that have recently been redesigned with iThemes Builder by Ty Carlson from iThemes Creative Services. These two sites have needed an overhaul from my previously lame (self-designed) sites and I also wanted to have personal showcase sites for the cool things Builder can do. (We drink our own Kool-Aid at iThemes.) I’m very happy with the design work that Ty has done! [...]
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 [...]
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