entrepreneurship
I’ve been meeting up with some very cool people of late. One person in particular got me to thinking about the idea of venture capital and equity sharing. I find myself in the position sometimes (in fact, often times) where I have more ideas than I have disposable resource
entrepreneurship
My dad has a saying that I love: “You can’t steer a parked car” You sort of can… turning the wheel is a bit harder… But I digress – the point of the saying is that it’s MUCH easier to steer something once it has some degree of momentum.
entrepreneurship
This is one of my favourite blogs… This post talks about some of the things one needs to consider when working a part-time “on the side” (or a “5 to 9″ as I like to call it). There are some very interesting points to consider about liability, how to treat
entrepreneurship
I’ve been meeting up with some very cool people of late. One person in particular got me to thinking about the idea of venture capital and equity sharing. I find myself in the position sometimes (in fact, often times) where I have more ideas than I have disposable resource
entrepreneurship
I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put them to in the past week: * Sourcing Adobe Creative Suite at the lowest possible price * Determining routes, pricing,
entrepreneurship
I love the book “The 4-hour Work Week”. A mate of mine just posted in his blog about the beginnings of his adventures in outsourcing, using outsourced workers from the Philippines via oDesk.com to do property research (great post by the way – I thoroughly recommend it especially if you
entrepreneurship
I’ve probably spent too much time watching the stock exchange and the forex market over the past few days… What’s happening in the world economy at the moment is pretty much unprecedented over the past 50 years, and there is lots of reasons come from lots of places
entrepreneurship
Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or venture or mine doesn’t seem to be panning out. When bumps in the road come, my mind spawns a whole range of Plan B‘s,
entrepreneurship
I often talk to people that are absolutely chomping at the bit to start their own business, and the number one pre-startup question I hear in conversation is this: What the heck am I going to sell? Here’s a few ideas and examples of what’s worked for me.
business-strategy
This is a repost from http://www.strategyeye.com/articles/digitalmedia/id/24649416. Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up of anti-monopoly solutions like Skype since the Global Financial Crisis has been incredible (until, of course, Skype becomes a monopoly itself and people move on to the next thing). Voice-over-IP
entrepreneurship
I define the fundamental essence of business as this: Connecting low yield solutions to a high yield problems. In simpler terms, find something that is cheap or undervalued and connect it to a market that will pay enough for it for you to cover your cost of goods, your operating
leadership
Baby Boomer: “Oh yeah, those young tackers will never achieve anything – they are always on their mobiles and that Tweeter thing.” Gen Y: “Those old farts have no idea what’s going on…” One of the saddest things that I often see and hear is the generation gap between Gen