Archive for October 3rd, 2005
Chris Sacca, one of Google’s business development guys, has an excellent post about how to present an idea: Email Rules. Thesis Statements. What problem are you solving? Differentiate. Follow-up. Google is Bottom-up. Meetings aren’t always necessary. NDAs aren’t a helpful start. Lead with engineering. PR is a distraction. Threats don’t work. Don’t assume we have [...]
Beating the Entrepreneur’s Curse
Business Week: Unlike many of his friends who own small businesses, Alan Tiet, 46, a Vietnamese immigrant and co-owner of Dynamics USA, a Rosemead (Calif.) startup that maintains computer systems for small- to midsize companies, regularly takes vacations. As for those friends, “I think they’re crazy,” says Tiet, who took his family — his wife, [...]
Seth Godin: Make something worth making. Sell something worth talking about. Believe in what you do because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on. Don’t listen to the first people who give you feedback. Don’t give up. Not for a while, anyway.
Use a Federal Tax ID Number Instead of a Social Security Number
Wow, I didn’t realize that sole proprietors could get EINs: An Employer Identification Number (EIN), also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, is a nine-digit number that the IRS assigns to business entities. The IRS uses this number to identify taxpayers that are required to file various business tax returns. EINs are used by [...]
The 104th Carnival of the Capitalists
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists (the 104th!) is up at Drakeview. Wow, two years? Has it really been that long? I hosted on July 26, 2004, December 27, 2004 and January 24, 2005 and will be again on May 8, 2006.
