We live in a world of statuses. I’m not talking about your economics status, but what describes you right now? It is a smiley face? Is it a do not disturb sign?
I learned what entrepreneurship is in business school, but accidentally. Looking back, the most powerful things I learned were outside of the classroom. An incredible experience with a great instructor helped me learn that.
At Easy Time Clock, the growth we’ve experienced in the past few years has been largely due to focusing on the right things. We started ignoring what we like to call “special snowflake” circumstances, and instead focused on improving the experience for everyone.
I am the co-owner and CEO of Easy Time Clock. And no, we do not fix clocks. If you need to keep track of your employees, we can help solve that for you. Maybe the origin of your company is similar to ours.
My two partners—Jason and Tim—and I started Clevyr back in 2009, and we’ve learned a lot since then. In the early days, I would go out and get a contract, we would pay ourselves, I would do all the business analysis, then I would hand that over to partners to develop the software and say, “Good luck.” Then it was back out to fish for more business. I was fishing every day!
At Clevyr, we get to play all day every day for a living. We develop custom software, and what I love about what we do is we built a team of people who, even when you ask them something really hard, and they say, “It’s not going to happen,” they still make it happen.
To stay competitive in our market, one of the concepts we really believe in is a continuous evolution of our product. Several years ago we realized a lot of businesses were coming to our escape rooms for team building.
If you’ve never been to an escape room, imagine playing a game of Clue. But instead of sitting around a table with pieces on a board, you’re in a physical room and you have no idea what’s going to happen next.
Every years brings about the talk of goals, growth, and progress. How much do you want to sell next year? How much do you want to spend next year? Will you be able to hire more employees? I’m here to tell you to think bigger. And I speak from experience!
People talk about the entrepreneurial spirit and what drives business owner’s, their work ethic, and their ability to push through obstacles. While I can say I have those qualities, there is more to growing a business than just trying hard.
