Hi, I'm Erica Douglass. I sold my business and "temporarily retired" at age 26. I write here about investing, setting goals, and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, I share lessons I have learned that can help you on your quest for financial freedom!
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Archive for June, 2005
And we made it!
At 6:20PM tonight, we posted the payment that pushed us past our goal (in fact, pushed us even past my extended goal) for June’s revenue target.
I spent some time adding up all of our expenses, and when I finally hit the AutoSum button in Excel, I was shocked to see a much lower number [...]
The rush to the finish line is ON!
Gotta love the end of the month. The end of the month is when we do an all-out rush to meet our revenue targets. We’ll definitely make our target for this month, but to be profitable, we need to make a bit over that. To clear all the hurdles before midnight June 30, we’re [...]
[Read More]Buzz buzz!
Well, it’s 3:15AM and I’m still awake. This is what happens when I drink caffeine. I played 9 songs on DDR just to work up a sweat and hopefully tire myself out, but it didn’t help. I did get a 120 combo on “Blow My Whistle” level 3 (my favorite DDR song), though.
“Blow my [...]
Still hanging in there…barely!
As I expected, it’s been a tough week. With C leaving, Brandon and I have had to hurriedly interview candidates for our new open internship position. (Not that an intern will replace C, but like I said in my previous blog, it’s much more cost-effective that way for now.) We’re also preparing for some big [...]
[Read More]What a way to start a week!
So many things have happened recently that I’m having trouble listing them all! Okay, here goes:
1) C is leaving Simpli (on good terms) to take another job. (We’ll announce this to Simpli customers soon.)
2) That job is in Santa Clara, so he’s moving out here in two weeks! Whoa! (Unexpected!)
3) So now Simpli is hiring. [...]
