Archive for the 'Humor' Category
A Job For Jeeves: Word on the street is that forced retirement isn’t agreeing with good ol’ Jeeves, the butler most recently employed by Ask. Sure, maybe he’s spent his prime with just a few keywords and a search box to guide him, but we think he may have a little gas left in his [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: Sal in New York looks to Doug and Dave for advice on how to protect an intellectual property… Once again the flashback phone is ringing and this time it’s Thomas Edison, America’s most famous inventor… Dave in Cincinnati, Ohio wants to know what the next step is [...]
Internet Business Mastery Podcast
Episode #8 of the Internet Business Mastery podcast is online.
Neville Medhora: Purpose of Experiment: To prove my make money with no money business ideas can work. Hypothesis: It is possible to take less than $10 in startup capital and make money. Experiment: Buy a 24-pack of bottled water and sell it on the side of the road. Possibly utilize the labor of pan-handlers. via [...]
The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists
Rob Hyndman: Guy Kawasaki finishes the week with a hilarious post that reads between the lies of what VCs tell you. If I had a nickel … The others are funny, but number one is most direct: “I liked your company, but my partners didn’t.â€? In other words, “no.â€? What the sponsor is trying to [...]
If Your Wife Won’t Let You Start A Business
Steve Pavlina: Your wife won’t let you start your own business? What’re you… six years old? Have you softened your will so much that you now live only by the voice of the collective: “You will not start your own business. Individuality is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.� Your wife won’t let you? Are you a [...]
Pete: Dane Carlson and Tim Grahl turn their niche blog networks into full time self employment. Both become stay at home dads, blogging in underwear.
Hugh speaks the truth at gapingvoid: Business Porn is just like Ordinary Porn or Real Estate Porn, except instead of it being about the women we wished we could sleep with, or the houses we wish we owned, it’s about all those cool, lucrative, exciting jobs and businesses that we wish we had, instead of [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: This week on School Time, Dr. Jeffrey Stamp explains why keep is simple stupid really works… Craig with Naturally Elegant in Atlanta, Georgia seeks out Doug and Dave’s advice on how he can brand his mineral mud from India… Doug and David talk to Tom of Cottingham’s [...]
A man goes to his bank manager and says “I’d like to start a small business, how do I go about it?” The bank manager leans back and clasps his hands together on his gut and replies “Buy a big one and wait.” via Blue Mau Mau.
My wife and I are expecting our second child, another boy, in a few weeks but we haven’t picked a name yet! Please help! Our name rules: It can’t be popular. Our first son’s name, Emerson, is number 755 on this list. It shouldn’t start with an E. Don’t want to start a trend. It [...]
A reader sent me this story: An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a janitor’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online. This week: Futurist, Watts Wacker helps our listeners identify current and future trends during Possibly Profitable Prognostications… Sue of Cincinnati, Ohio looks for advice on how to jump start her dream of owning a small business that does oral histories…
My blog is worth $125,327.88.How much is your blog worth? Om Malik: Tristan Louis crunches the numbers on the AOL-Weblogs deal. He figures out that at $25 million valuation, each inbound site (as per Technorati) is worth $564.54. Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research, I’ve created this little applet which computes and displays your blog’s worth [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online. This week: Lorenzo with Parable Venture Partners, LLC in Florida seeks out the Brain Brew Crews advice on how to create a buzz about their children’s read along books… Aaron with Treepot, Inc. looks for ways he can raise money to take his company to the next [...]
Chuck at the Work at Home Business Opportunities Blog maybe onto something: When I read this Dilbert comic strip a few days ago, it sounded remarkably like many of the “work at home� job postings I see in Monster, etc. that are really work at home business opportunities where YOU have to pay. It made [...]
Make Money with Your Typewriter
From 1952: 125 Ways to Make Money with Your Typewriter. If you replace “typewriter” with “computer” this sounds like the modern work at home type marketing fluff, but there really are some gems in here: Regardless of your talents, and whether you live in a small rural hamlet or a widespread metropolitan area, your typewriter [...]
Confessions of an Entrepreneur
Anita Campbell’s Small Business Trends is running a column of Hesh Reinfeld’s humor essay Confessions of an Entrepreneur: I found his humor to be intelligent, brilliantly incisive, and of course, funny. The following piece captures the essence of what it is like to be a serial entrepreneur. Hesh Reinfeld: I told my family that I [...]
