(Photo: Kevin Dooley)
Just for fun, I asked my start-ups (and a few friends) if they’d like to offer y’all a little something special from the holidays. Here’s an incomplete list.
Many are working on top-secret stuff and couldn’t jump in, but a few were game on last-minute notice, so here you go!
They are listed in alphabetical order by company/name:
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Photo + Film + Design + Software. Use coupon “tim2011” for 25% off ANY single @creativeLIVE course til 1/1/12 http://creativelive.com
Email joseph-at-crowdflower.com and we’ll give you free CrowdFlower credits and a free crowdsourcing consultation to get you started on our self-service platform.
Foodzie’s Tasting Club delivers a monthly selection of artisan food products. Gift it and receive a FREE month on your own subscription. Valid through 12/24.
Ed Cooke trained Josh Foer to be US memory champ in 1 yr. He’ll train you if you can learn 500+ words in a week on http://www.memrise.com
Create a free and private website for your family photos this holiday season on Posterous Spaces.
Want a virtual assistant? Get one, FREE, for a year. (From Ramit Sethi of iwillteachyoutoberich.) http://bit.ly/uVjY3M
45% off a year of Reputation.com’s MyPrivacy service ($55 for a year) to protect your digital personal information. You can use this link http://www.reputation.com?code=4HOUR to get the discount automatically or enter the code 4HOUR in the gift code section on our site when buying.
Have a Productive New Year for 50% off – Sign up for @RescueTime for $36/year! – http://bit.ly/RT36Y
3 months free – Shopify Unlimited Plan, first 100 to use the promo code ‘4HOUR’ [value $537]
Happy holidays!
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Thank you for the generosity of you and your entrepreneurs Tim.
Merry Christmas to you and the team as well.
Thanks. Definitely taking advantage of the Shopify offer. Happy holidays!
Tim,
I run one store on Shopify (URL removed), am just about to launch my second (a US variant), and your gift above has given me enough incentive to jump onto the third one!!
Thanks to you, and have a great holiday season!
Dejan.
Thanks for sharing, Tim! Hope you have a great new year 🙂
Appreciate the discounts Tim but seems a lot like affiliate marketing,
Tim you rock my Christmas stockings off!
You have got to love Ramit, he never quite gives anything away for free.
Really interesting start-ups you work with (and have as friends).
Took the 500 hundred word challenge starting from today, entered the VirtualAssistant contest (anyone to join? http://bit.ly/ue7ni6 ) and dropped a mail for CrowdFlower credits.
Thank you, Tim, and Merry Christmas!
just signed up for shopify, thanks for the deals
I’ll add — freshtemp — 20% off temperature monitoring for your restaurant — just call and let me know you saw this.
Thanks Tim, I love rescuetime and shopify is what got us started, cheers!
Hey Tim, Bit random and off topic but 4HB foods very similar to diet required for heavy metal detox. Add some cilantro tincture and you’d be away. Merry Xmas from Matapouri,Northland,New Zealand.
PS: Brickwork didn’t go so well for me for a research project but Elance was impressive. Worth the extra cost in this case. Cheers mate.
I tried out the AppSumo “Wantrepreneur” course couple weeks back, gotta say it was really good. Noah and Neville make making millions look easy… I would definitely recommend it for anyone looking to start.
Thanks for the deals, Tim! Here’s a holiday deal from our startup. It took us a few years, but we changed our business model and we’re finally a true 4HWW biz – thanks again! My fiancee is a Certified Professional Organizer. For years she worked in clients homes to help them get organized, productive, and efficient. She captured all of her systems, tips, and tricks in one program (200+ pages, exercises, charts, visuals, plus a supportive online community forum). It launches in mid-January. We are offering a pre-sale through the end of December for $50 off. (Link is in the website field) Merry Christmas!
Hi,
The book refers to http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/fms but this does not seem to be on the server anymore. Any ideas?
Merry Xmas guys
Great post, thanks bro.
Hey, is the Shopify code only for new accounts?
I signed up about a month ago and would love to trial a few months of unlimited plan especially as we are getting ready to finalise the website and launch.
PS: Thanks a million for the cool links
Ok so how many beers do I owe you now?
Love the more frequent posts recently. Keep em’ coming Tim!
Thanks for the Christmas gifts. Getting back into the groove of things entrepreneurship wise I’m getting started with my fiancee on a new lifestyle business targeting ADHD.
So far after watching the first APPSUMO video reminded yet again on the importance of being consistent in our efforts rather than going for a quick start followed by quick fizzle.
thanks a lot !!! with that shopify coupon code I came quite a bit closer to my goal ;)…
Memrise is a cool thing. While the realisation is not without its bugs, and the selection of words even for the featured demo course (Spanish) is a bit weird, it was really easy to learn some 110 words in one day. Really easy = the combination of multiple choice tests, reading and written translation is very well balanced.
Tim
You rock! Thanks for these Xmas gifts.
Merry Xmas
Leonard
Thank you! I’m checking some of them out now.
Next year, I’d really like your list of recommended gifts again, too. That was great, and I bought some stuff from it. Hopefully you got some affiliate commissions!
So where do you apply the shopify code? I’m in the 30-day trial already and would love to use it, but see no place to do so.
Thanks for the deals. I entered the virtual assistant contest.
Tim, you are the man!
waoo I clicked on all of them!
…good deals! I really liked memrise. Already learned a few French words!
Joyeux Noël every body!
Thanks Tim!
Memrise is a great tool from Ed and the team. What language are you learning from Memrise for the new year?
It’s a interesting concept.
The vendors gain a large email list and the readers get a little something too.
One thing, though. I think it is important to separate the list on which one’s are discounts, giveaways, or contests. There can be some confusion there. Clarifying will help the readers to appreciate what tim has done.
it is good think about which one of these are worth giving away your email address. I found that being Ramit Sethi’s email list is quite painful. You won’t get spammed, but it’s pretty close.
Saying no to all contests. The odds of winning is minimal, but there is a 95% chance of getting spammed to death. I’ll pass.
Also I don’t think I can appreciate free video anymore. It takes effort to create them, of course. But many of them are sub-par, too commercial or void of content.
Everyone has their own thresholds. 😛
I thought CreativeLive, Crowdflower, Foodzie’s Tasting Club, and Shopify was pretty cool. I almost cried when I saw the “beef jerky” package at Foodzie’s Tasting Club was sold out. 🙂 Memrise looks interesting and I’ll give it a try.
Thanks Tim.
Hope you and your family have a wonderful christmas, kwanzaa, hanukkah and/or new years.
Thanks Tim!
I signed up for the 3 months of Shopify, which I was going to sign up for anyway, so it’s perfect timing! Launching 2 businesses at the beginning of the 2012. (not very muse-like, but going to test them to see what sticks).
Happy Holidays everyone!
Had been about to ready to get rolling with Shopify anyway. This was just the push we needed. Thanks!
Memrise’s “one click Facebook login” doesn’t appear to work……
@Jeff: Sorry to hear you were having trouble logging in to Memrise with Facebook. We’d love to help you sort this out – info@memrise.com. I hope it didn’t get in the way of your learning,
Yours,
Greg
Memrise co-founder
Thanks Tim for spreading the holiday gifts.
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Hi Tim, do you know anyone via the net who i can talk to about sewing a prototype for a piece of clothing? thanks, Cathy
Hopefully this is just a fault with Amazon, but it’s saying in the UK it’s not going to be available till 25th September 2012….It would be awesome if that got switched up to January instead (best payday present ever, haha!)
Tim,
Memrise is amazing! Thanks for introducing us to that.
Very for Merry Christmas for you and your family.
Grande Abraço
Theo
@Theo, @Mariano, @David, @Daniel_Kislyuk – I’m really glad you’re enjoying things! Drop us a line at info@memrise.com if you have any ideas for how we can improve things.
Yours,
Greg
Memrise co-founder
I will like to be your partner making some of the recipes in you new book for some of those who can’t cook or have the time
Hi Tim, Thanks for publishing it. The foodzie deal is sweet- practically a two-fer deal.
Nice Tim! Wish you Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your team.
Great to learn about these start-ups!
Has anyone tried the AppSumo business blueprint thing that’s advertised on top right of this blog? Any feedback would be great because I’m really considering paying and going through with it, thanks.
504 Spanish words learnt in 4 days with memrise http://bit.ly/tTTeTz – it really works very well and does take much less time than I would have expected.
Merry christmas to all!
Bought the yearly subscription for Rescue Time. Thank you very much Tim. I wish you and everyone a Happy New Year.
Everything looks great. I signed up for Shopify and just broke 500 words on Memrise. The site is amazing — thanks for the introduction, Tim!
(And speaking of which, how does that thing with Ed Cooke work?)
Tim, were you by chance in Chomrong, Nepal in November?
Thanks Tim, keep us posted on the top secret stuff too
Thanks so much, that’s really generous of you Tim. I’m going to check out Memrise, it sounds just what I need because of my terrible vocab retention skills
Hello Tim,
Nice list with interesting stuff! I think I will have many new-year resolution goals!
Thank you a lot.
Merry christmas to all!
Wow, thanks Tim. I just wanted to thank you for giving us insight on these new start up deals that I would of never known of before. I appreciate it. Great deals and I hope you and everybody on this website had a great holiday season.
Hi there,
From time to time, I read your blog and this comment is actually in response to your November blog that I just finished reading regarding shark finning. I’m a fourth grade teacher here in Beijing, China. My fourth graders just finished writing letters to the Peninsula Hotels three weeks ago after they decided to no longer serve shark fin soup at their hotels. I’ve been going to a monthly foodie event here in Beijing to support various causes while eating at some of the most fabulous restaurants in Beijing, and at the end there is an optional donation foodies are asked to contribute. I was thinking my fourth grade class along with the founder of Beijing Foodies (who has become a friend) would like to team up and raise money for the Nature Conservancy group with Summit Series. It would be great if my students can be eligible for the shark tagging expedition that’s going on in Miami. They are Chinese students, and I want them to be more well-informed on the subject, especially since shark fin soup is served here in China,
Has the goal been met for the Summit Series to protect ocean life, and do you know of any other great organizations that’s trying to raise funds to protect sharks? I want my students to get involved as I grew up living by the beach. Thanks!
Ms. S – 4th grade teacher in Beijing
Thanks for posting these resources Tim.
I think the stop being a Wantrepreneur is among the most important links here.
Nothing happens until you get off your butt and do something!
Nice post