Craig Hewitt

Craig Hewitt

Founder and CEO of Castos. Husband to a very wonderful wife, father to two amazing children, and in constant search for the extraordinary.
Oct 15
Don't Be Scared, Do The Hard Things First

Don't Be Scared, Do The Hard Things First

If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know that I recently went on a bit of
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Oct 08
Rails vs Django vs Laravel: An analysis of web frameworks from a non-technical founder

Rails vs Django vs Laravel: An analysis of web frameworks from a non-technical founder

I’ve been deep in the trenches of web development lately.  I decided that if software is in my future
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Oct 01
Building Your Personal Brand

Building Your Personal Brand

What do most of the ultra successful entrepreneurs you know have in common?  Some sort of seemingly unfair advantage that
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Sep 27
Looking into Marketing Analytics

Looking into Marketing Analytics

In my last post I talked about Learning to Code and what that might mean for my future.  It’s
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Sep 12
learning to code

Learning to Code

Just a quick note, as much for accountability sake as anything.  I’ve been looking hard at the market to
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Sep 07
The Power of Systems (and why you probably don't have enough of them in your business)

The Power of Systems (and why you probably don't have enough of them in your business)

Systems.  Yikes.  Sounds like the TPS reports and drudgery of the typical office job are just around the corner, right?
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Jun 29
Software development as a nontechnical founder

Beginnings in Software Development as a NonTechnical Founder

I’ve had a hankering for getting into some software for a long time now, much to the chagrin of
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Jun 06
Notes from the Road - Europe Edition

Notes from the Road - Europe Edition

Well it’s been a few months (terrible to say outloud) since I’ve written here, but trust me I
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Feb 14
Sell Before You Build

Sell Before You Build

There are an infinite number of ways to do things online.  Platforms, tools, frameworks, methodologies, communities, all promise to make
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Dec 15
Buying My First Website(s)!

Buying My First Website(s)!

Today is an exciting day. I just released escrow for to me what is a huge sum of money. I
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Nov 10

Why Creating is So Difficult

We live in a crazy world, don’t we?  All day we sit around constantly being barraged by Slack notifications,
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Nov 03
List Building Project: Part II

List Building Project: Part II

TL:DR – I added 4326 email subscribers to my list in 8 days, and it cost me $362 and took
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