Archive for October 31st, 2005
Investing in the Future, or Indentured Servitude
Noah Kagan may be onto something with his idea for indentured servitude: Sponsor someone from high-school/college to professional. Not just a scholarship but a life-ship. Still unclear? I am saying you recruit a high-school or college student and mold them into a professional photographer: Pay for their schooling to learn photography, $150 class + books [...]
Are Your Business Procedures Documented?
Frank Ross: Sometimes, as home-based entrepreneurs, we like to store things in our heads. Our heads are good for thinking things through, but are not very good places to store things like procedures. Documenting such routine procedures like order taking, return processing, and shipping procedures has many advantages. First, you don’t have to worry about [...]
Reveries: A funny thing happened to Marlboro cigarettes when the government said it could no longer use mass media to market its products — its ad spending went down and its profits went up, as reported by Nanette Byrnes in Business Week (10/31/05). “Philip Morris does not disclose how much it spends promoting the brand, [...]
The Best Part About Being An Entrepreneur
Does this sound like you? Since most people hate their jobs they spend approximately half of their wakeful life miserable. This is why people max out their credit cards and income. They buy new cars and big houses trying desperately to make their life interesting. The best part of being entrepreneur: I work on things [...]
Kiva sounds very interesting: Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on our website and then lending money online to that enterprise, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course [...]
Don’t Let Ego Kill the Startup
Business Week: For nearly two decades, Jonathan Hirshon has nurtured startup entrepreneurs as a Silicon Valley marketing and communications consultant. Along the way, Hirshon has observed both sorry failures and stunning successes, and he became an entrepreneur himself — founding Horizon Communications, a Santa Clara (Calif.)-based consultancy, in 1995. Though it takes plenty of moxie [...]
Presentations from Startup School
Anthony Cerminaro: For more on Startup School held at Harvard on October 15, 2005, including copies of slide shows and mp3 versions of presentations, see the Presentations (Startup School Wiki) site.
Sarah Bosch continues her reviews this week, with a look at Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start : The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything. Meaning is not about money, power, or prestige. It’s not even about creating a fun place to work. Among the meanings of “meaning” are to Make the world [...]
Small Business Owners Don’t Retire
Startup Journal: For many small-business owners the question of how to handle retirement is easy to answer — just never do it. In a survey of owners about plans for the end of their careers, 46% said they will never fully retire, while 11% don’t plan to retire until at least age 70. Less than [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Triple Pundit.
