Last week I finally received papers stating that I now own my very own corporation (federally registered in Canada)! Tilted Pixel Inc. is now my 100% owned-by-me corporate baby. As you can probably tell by the reduced posting frequency I’ve been working extra hard to pull together everything related to that while keeping up with the ever-increasing work queue.

Incorporation of the company represents a bit of a graduation ceremony from a small business idea to a serious commitment and a validated business model. Less than a year ago I had a registered sole proprietorship, business cards, a single client, and three oversized photo prints with the company logo (for “exhibitions”). I now have three website projects on the go at any given moment and a solid plan for expanding the company further and further. Keeping the business profitable and growing has been a matter of applying what I’ve learned in my previous ventures and sticking to the fundamentals of building the business one solid block at a time.

What makes Tilted Pixel work? It’s actually a very simple concept, albiet shockingly ignored in the website development world. Tilted Pixel delivers what clients ask for with websites that are built to spec and can be edited by the client rather than requiring the web developer. I’ve invested the past three years into a terrific website development architecture custom built exactly to deliver on this promise. It would have been easier in the beginning to use an off-the-shelf solution, but had I gone this route I would have lost control over the services and capabilities that I am able to offer my clients. The software would have ruled the company. With my architecture I never have to feel restricted since even if a capability is not there I know it can be created.

I’m basically tooting my own horn in this post but this milestone is tremendously important to me and something that I feel like sharing with all my readers Feel free to post stories of your own business start-up achievements in the comments!

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