There comes a time when you’re doing business and you’re starting to be successful. That’s the exact same time that you start encountering difficulties. Like real difficulties. Think, a lower number of clients (-50%), being sued and other crazy things that can happen.

 

It’s the point where Company Culture and the culture that you built or believe in with all your heart comes into play.

 

You basically have a few options related to how you can reply to the shit that’s being thrown at you by people, surroundings, universe, funny looking up-suited losers, etc.

 

Here’s where you have to choose and make the decision according to the culture you believe in. That’s the only decision that will make you happy.

 

You’ll run out of business soon if you’re not happy or you lose hope. Choose wisely. Care about the Culture.

Long journeys are experiences that shape you, improve you and have you thinking that everything great is in the journey.

 

Our journey at Squirrly has been amazing and continues to be so, every single day, no matter what hardships we may encounter.

 

What makes this trully amazing is exactly what we like in the journeys from every story that we ever read: the characters we meet along the way. I can certainly name a few. Starting with investors who helped us build this great product, the awesome team of customers that has been with us from day 1, the thousands of users who like Squirrly (a lot), our team (that has been growing lately), our partners and those who keep writing about their great experiences with our software.

 

One day I may write up a list of all these people. It will be a very long list, but it really should be there in the source code of Squirrly, for all these great persons that we met and befriended have helped us achieve more then we would have hoped for and we know that we can count on their countinued support.

 

I tip my hat in sign of best regards to all of you who should be on that list,

Florin Muresan

Founder and CEO

Squirrly UK

 

https://twitter.com/florin_muresan

 

Great, I’ve placed a cute little image with a Squirrel right there 🙂

 

My blog is very old and I have a lot of articles on it, close to 500 articles that I’ve written over the years.

 

That’s what usually gets me indexed amazingly fast on Google. Now, there could be a little problem, because I’d switched just recently from florin-muresan.cif2.net to florins.co

 

But I’d still love to see how this here article manages to do if I just stop writing already and click the “Post Article” button.

I am lucky to have such amazing people working with me and Calin at Squirrly UK.

 

These last 2 weeks have been really squirrly, as we’ve grown the team. I’m happy we did, because with so much talent in one office, great things will happen for our customers.

 

Squirrly is about Delivering Happiness to team mates, customers, investors and partners.

Growth Hacking Applied to Squirrly and UseTogether

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Growth Hacking applied to 2 startups from Cluj 🙂 This was presented at the Launch Event of the 9th number from Today Software Magazine. This video is all

Who Are You? And Why Should I Care? by Florin Muresan

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I’m Florin Muresan and I’m a seasoned entrepreneur. Almost all of the stuff that I ever did revolved around building software products. Doing this and

REQUIRED READING

All of the following required reading, as listed in the Syllabus, is provided for free by the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation via the links below:

1. Edward D. Hess, “Growth is the Dynamic Confluence of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Values” Darden Technical Note UVA-S-0196. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2011.

2. Gosia Glinska and Edward D. Hess, “Eyebobs Eyeware, Inc.” Case Study UVA-ENT-0139. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2009.

3. Edward D. Hess, “3 Fellers Bakery,” Case Study UVA-ENT-0137. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2009.

4. Edward D. Hess, “Defender Direct, Inc.: A Business of Growing Leaders,” Case Study UVA-ENT-0115. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2009.

5. Edward D. Hess, Sanju Jacob and Monidipa Mukherjee, “Enchanting Travels,” Case Study UVA-ENT-0144. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2009.

6. Edward D. Hess, “C.R. Barger & Sons, Inc. (A)” Case Study UVA-ENT-0106. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2008.

7. Edward D. Hess, “C.R. Barger & Sons, Inc. (B)” Case Study UVA-ENT-0107. University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 2008.

OPTIONAL READING

In addition to the readings required on the syllabus, you might find the following of my books helpful:

1. Edward D. Hess, Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses, Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2012, which is the book that this Course is based on.

2. Edward D. Hess and Charles F. Goetz, So! You Want to Start a Business?, Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press, 2008. This book was written for people who want to start a business. It focuses on the eight common reasons why start-ups fail and how to increase your probability of avoiding those mistakes.

3. Edward D. Hess, The Road to Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow Marketshare From Within, New York: McGraw Hill, 2007. This book is based on a study of consistent high organic growth U.S. public companies and their defining characteristics—the six keys to their success. Company stories include Sysco, Stryker Corporation, Outback Steakhouse, Best Buy Co., Inc., TSYS, Tiffany & Co., and American Eagle Outfitters, Inc..

GOOD READS

Here’s my additional list of good reads:

1. Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, New York: HarperBusiness, 1993.

2. Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

3. Neil C. Churchill and John W. Mullins, “How Fast Can Your Company Afford to Grow?” Harvard Business Review, 79, no. 5 (2001): 135-42.

when you get comments like these, you’re NEVER having a bad day.

” Squirrly is an awesome WP plugin! ‘Pro’ is well worth it for righting the wrongs of other SEO plugins who promised and didn’t deliver. Thanks so much. The SEO gains are confirmed daily and much appreciated. “

You can read it on our Squirrly page 🙂 It just brightened my day.