Internet Entrepreneur and Weekend Hacker

Why Start Another Business

August 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I had a pretty good run when I sold PCSecurityShield last year to iS3.  Th deal was a good deal for me and hopefully them but I am 44 years old and with way to much energy and ideas to just pack in it and golf.  Especially since I am not that good at golf even though I am just 6 years away from the Seniors Tour …

The last 7 months I have been knocking around with real estate and a few leftover websites but in the past month or  two I have started to turn it back into high gear.  I am again back in the office at 7AM and today it  is  Sat, and I am in the office again and I am thinking long term about building the new business.  I am back and it feels good.

Yesterday I was out at lunch having a meeting with some potential vendors and the VP was telling me about the owner of his company.  How he built his initial business and then sold it for X and  how hugely successful this guy is and that now that he has started a new business he is back in the office at 7AM and is the last one out.  The guy has a plenty of money and doesn’t “need this” but regardless, he is  back at the grind.

It hit me right there as I  heard this guy basically describing me.  Why would we go about doing this again?

Because I want to prove I wasn’t just  lucky the first time.

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PCSecurityShield Sold

August 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Although the new owners of PCSecurityShield have decided not to make any public announcements at this time, the deal for the sale of PCSecurityShield.com was completed at the end of 2008.    I launched PCSecurityShield on Dec 31, 2003 and the site was an Internet Retailer Top 500 website.  The sale comes exactly 5 years to the day after its launch.

I have been asked numerous times whether I regret selling the company and while I miss running PCSecurityShield and the excitement of growing the business, I  say no to that.  I read with interest the blog post regarding the former owner of Delicious.  Of course, like any entrepreneur, you feel that you can do better, but the sale of PCSecurityShield was a great moment for me personally and professionally.

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