Ideas are a dime a dozen. If you have new initiatives being undertaken, and you are not getting the results you need, maybe it is not that the idea was no good. When you open a new seafood restaurant in the neighborhood, and it is not doing well, maybe it is not that there is […]
David Heinemeier: Are you thinking about starting a company in the web space? Step one, don’t listen to Business 2.0 and their How to build a Bulletproof Startup nonsense! They’ll tell you that you need to burn between $1.6 and $4.5 million to get to launch. They’re wrong. They’ll tell you that working on a
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Tyler Galganski of Forever Lazy said: Worry more about getting your idea out there to see if it works, rather than spending your time doing all the bookwork and business plans. Exactly the point of my favorite post 20 Things Not to Do Before Starting A Business.
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Most people want to be known as experts in their fields because they think that it will increase their visiblity and sales. According to the Wall Street Journal, establishing yourself as an expert serves another very important purpose: it causes you to become more knowledgeable about other aspects of your niche. In other words, it
photo credit: themacinator The following is a guest post by Aditya Mahesh. I think one problem area that a lot of small business owners run into is that they try to do a little bit of everything and in turn end up doing nothing exceptionally well. They have a general lack of focus and thus
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 photo credit: neilbetter When creating your own personal brand it is vitally important to make that brand stand out, catch the attention of your audience immediately and cause them to be so interested in the product or services your selling that they almost can’t resist the urge to buy them. So how does one
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photo credit: olarte.ollie Every week I get emails from readers with questions about their businesses. When I probe them for further information, many are hesitant to describe their business idea more fully unless I agree to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement. I almost always refuse and explain that when starting a new business you should
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photo credit: arquera From 37Signals, a reminder that business doesn’t have to be complex: I called them. 10 minutes later the guy came by. He was down the street on another job. We walked out back. I told him what I needed done. He looked around for 20 seconds and said $300. I said “deal.”
photo by Angie Carlson Last Sunday, I had a minor accident that as I attempted to remedy illustrated some basic failing that many small businesses suffer from. While weed whacking my yard, I shot a handful of small stones towards my house and broke my sliding glass door and another window. The outer pane of
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