Best Places to Work Nomination

We are always working to make sure our company is a place where people look forward to coming to work everyday and everyone enjoys what they do. The Austin Business Journal holds a yearly contest where you nominate your company as one of the best places to work in the greater Austin area. We strive to attain this award [...]

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Office Warming Party

As I mentioned in a previous post, we moved into a new office space and had yet to decorate. As of today, we are about 90% done with our décor and it’s really added a ton of personality to the workplace. We had Joel Mozersky with One Eleven Design come and help us with design, furniture arrangement and [...]

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Charity for Adrenaline Junkies

Once again, I’d like brag on my dashing business partner (the one in the black tux pictured below), JR Kraft. This past Saturday he scaled down the side of the 400 ft tall One American Center located here in downtown Austin to represent our company for a Make-A-Wish charity event called Over the Edge. The event started [...]

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Lemonade Day

Last weekend it was time again for the annual Austin Lemonade Day Tasting. This was the second year Lisa and I have been judges and it is a blast tasting the different types of lemonade. This event is held downtown at the Austin Children’s museum and kids from all over town create their own version [...]

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Formula 1 in Austin

Business is my sport of interest. I can’t say I have a favorite team or religiously watch a sport, but lately there’s a lot of hype in the Austin area about F1 racing and I feel as though I need to start ramping up my knowledge base about the sport. Unfortunately, F1 races aren’t as [...]

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Yoga

I decided I wanted to get some form of exercise other than “running” from meeting to meeting. I didn’t want to do the cliché gym workout so I did a little bit of research and have been giving yoga a try. More specifically, I’ve been doing a form of yoga called Baptiste. What differentiates it [...]

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Build A Intrapreneur

Here’s a buzz word for you: intrapreneurship. A popular term used back in the 80s and early 90s that is starting to gain increasing popularity in today’s businesses. Intrapreneurship has a large place at BuildASign.com and has been crucial to our rapid growth and ongoing success. When most people think of an entrepreneur, they think [...]

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Network Premiere

If you happened to be watching the early afternoon news last week (which you most likely weren’t) you may have caught my interview on KVUE! It was a really great experience — my first live tv interview — and a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about our giving program and philanthropic initiatives. It’s always [...]

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Officially moved in!

About a year ago, we outgrew our facilities and began searching for a place that could contain our rapidly expanding company and also leave plenty of room for growth. Well, I’m happy to report that as of last week we are officially moved in to our new office! The location is not far from our previous office, but [...]

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Reading List

It’s amazing that Amazon.com doesn’t have a tool for compiling a reading list. I spent a good bit of time looking through different alternatives out there and narrowed it down to GoodReads.com and LibraryThing.com — eventually settling on GoodReads.com. They are really similar except the LibraryThing.com interface is clunkier but it has a recommendation engine [...]

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