Ten years ago, on November 1, 2001, Hen’s Teeth Network was born. The past decade has seen tremendous technological change and let me work with truly amazing people and companies. Take a trip down memory lane with me.

When I started Hen’s Teeth Network, I never imagined the broad range of clients with whom I would work. Fascinating clients: from jewelry to medical marijuana, from children’s books to adult products, from swaddling blankets to grief counseling, from wedding invitations to anger management, from spiritual to religious to political and back again, from stylin’ shoes to hiking trails to bicycling, from podcasts to public libraries, from airplanes to trains to cars, from women’s fashion to medical uniforms, from art galleries to theatrical stages, from rubber stamps to air conditioners, from coffee to lobster to health supplements, from fishing tackle to board games, from financial forecasting to transportation planning, from dating help to parenting help, from home schooling to college course materials, from natural birth classes to Halloween costumes, from one-person start-ups to multi-national corporations to governments. It never ceases to amaze me how complex and interesting every business is, when you take the time to look at it carefully and understand how one business person is differentiating him or herself from his or her competition.

Among HTN’s clients, computers and the web are tools, simply a means to an end. Our mission, from the very beginning, has been: We help our clients improve their businesses by turning the internet and the web into useful tools.

2001

Launching a business less than two months after 9/11 might not be considered stellar timing but it was the right thing at that point in my life. I offered my time way below a living wage but it is better to earn something than nothing and, in those days, full fare work was darned hard to come by. Our web hosting was done on machines in my basement and reliability depended on my constant, personal availability. (more…)