EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects

Business training and resources for small firm entrepreneur architects.

Entrepreneur Architect Academy 003 | Marketing for Architects

In Session 002, we developed our business and personal life plan. We dreamed big, defined our vision and identified our mission. Today we’re going to put all that information to work. Today we are going to tell some stories, or in the jargon of the business world, we are going to do some marketing. Marketing, […]

Entrepreneur Architect Academy 002 | Your Life Plan: Personal and Business Planning

What do you want to accomplish in your life? Specifically. Do you want to be “rich and famous”? Do you want to spend more time with the ones you love? Here’s another secret that the experts don’t tell you… you can’t do both. People who reach the pinnacle of financial success, in any profession, have […]

Entrepreneur Architect Academy 001 | Personal Productivity

A little past 6AM, tunes from the local radio station wake me from a very deep slumber. (I set the alarm to 6:14, so I hear music rather than the daily bad news report. I am very serious about my “full media blackout“.) I certainly don’t spend enough time sleeping. I’m up late every night […]

Entrepreneur Architect Academy

Back in 2006, I attended an academic program, where each week we explored one fundamental element required for a successful small business. At that point, Fivecat Studio had been up and running for several years. We launched the firm in 1999 and had a very successful startup. As I have mentioned several times in the past, […]

Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas… Looking Forward to 2013

A Fivecat Christmas Every October, my lovely wife and architect business partner, Annmarie McCarthy, starts sketching out the Fivecat Christmas greeting card. It’s been an annual tradition since before Fivecat Studio even existed and each and every year we find ourselves licking envelopes during the very last minutes of “it’s not too late”. Each set […]