Chase Raz
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Chase Raz is a Professor and Consultant who is currently working on ideating, incubating, and scaling his own businesses ventures.
What is topical in the news as I write this will be but a vague memory, if remembered at all, by the time you read it. Recently, a cybersecurity firm pushed a software update and crashed millions (8.5 million, according to Microsoft) of business computers worldwide. Flights were interrupted creating massive delays, guests were locked out of their rooms at Disneyland, and those self-checkout kiosks everyone both loves-to-hate and hates-to-love were down and unable to accept card payments.
I have been Swedish Death Cleaning for years, and I still consider myself to have an average amount of stuff. Well, I still have more belongings than most because I tend to squirrel was items for household chores and personal hobbies. All of that stashing away of goods adds up to a lot of items.
Welcome to my blog, I’m Chase Raz. This is a place for thinking and a place for understanding. The topics here will range from my professional pursuits of business, technology, and marketing to my passions for science and futurism. I welcome each of you who land on these pages, either through intent or happenstance.
Okay, I’m not here to be negative, but I need you to know something: podcast and blog sponsorships are often fake. No, the other podcast with only 20% more listeners isn’t really pulling in the amazing sponsors they say they are. Are they lying? Not really. See, most of the sponsorships for podcasts and blogs […]
There’s no shortage of thing for me to do in the day. If I could make two clones of myself, all three of us would end up with full time jobs from my existing workload. It’s not that I’m bad at time management or that I’m slow an inefficient, instead, it’s that I’m interested in […]
Nope, nothing’s perfect. The platform powering my stack right now isn’t ideal, especially here at chaseraz.com where I’m using WordPress. I could tell you that I have plans to just move everything over to Webflow, but really who knows… my thinking could change on that in a few months and we’d be right back in […]
For years, I've had difficulty with platform selections for most of my core mission-critical tasks in business. I've belabored website builders, financial software, design software, digital document tools... you name it. I recently posted that I was finishing a current platform stack to be used on an indefinite basis. It felt great and I made major progress. But after having to walk away to address a teaching project, I found myself very unhappy with a number of the decisions I had made. Not
Okay, so I’m supposed to be working on other things right now, but I’ll make this brief. The first step in making any type of impact (in business, in culture, in life) is summed up in the age-old phrase, “Get your house in order!” Although, you may know it better by the more colloquially stated, […]
You want to accomplish something. Whatever it is, you’re going to have to make an investment. You’ll either be investing a lot of time, a lot of money, or a little of both. In this article, I’ll illustrate this concept by discussing modern options for having graphic design work completed for business use. Let’s pretend […]
As a small business owner, increasing prices is really tough to do. Reaching out to existing customers about rate increases is sometimes more painful than being on the other side of that equation. Yes, you read that right: it’s often more uncomfortable to raise your own rates than to be subjected to a rate increase. […]
