Make ‘Someday’ Happen Today

Here’s what it takes to implement your big idea in 10 minutes a day.
Aristotle observed that every living organism has an inner force, a vitality that propels that organism to be fulfilled. He called that state of being entelechy.
Everyone has an entelechy, a vital force that is yearning to be expressed.  The entelechy of an [...]

5 Startup Tips From the Father of Gmail and FriendFeed

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it.
I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his work on Gmail, he also developed the [...]

Top 7 Hiring Mistakes for Startup Businesses

Avoid these pitfalls and build a team of talented employees.
Building great teams is never easy.
A quick look at the sports world confirms this. Coaches come and go, players are free to seek new teams and owners are free to sign players who fit certain roles within the limits of payroll.
In business, it’s equally difficult. [...]

5 Ways to Keep Abreast of What’s Happening in Your Niche

While learning about things outside your niche is always encouraged too, you should always be on the look out for new strategies and trends that pertain to yours. This will be incredibly beneficial to you for staying competitive. Your thoughts?.
Following are a few tools you should be using to do just that.
1. StumbleUpon
StumbeUpon [...]

12 Reasons for Investing in a Franchise

There are some obvious advantages in investing in a franchise, the most important being that you will be buying into a tried and tested business concept. It may more expensive, (although there are some low cost franchise oppotunities out there), than starting your own business in the same sort of market but it does bring [...]

Places to leave your stamp offline?

Obviously you can purchase advertising space in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc. But lets face it, paying for ad space can get pricey, so let’s look at a few cheaper ways to brand your business away from the computer, because shockingly, some people still don’t spend their entire day on the Internet.
Stickers
Giving your customers free [...]

Five myths about entrepreneurs

Many myths have arisen about entrepreneurs. These ideas are the result of a lack of research and understanding. As many researchers in the field have noted, the study of entrepreneurship is still emerging, and thus “folklore” will tend to prevail until it is dispelled with contemporary research findings.
Here are the five most notable myths:
Myth 1: [...]

Craigslist – From Little Idea To Big Money

The website devouring the classified industry could hit $100 million in revenue in 2009 with a couple of minor changes, with the old-line newspaper industry helplessly watching from the sidelines.
Craigslist looks like what it is, a site launched years ago as a personal project that never forgot its users. Though the powers that be at [...]

Wake Up Call – People Use the Internet to Shop

Results from a survey conducted by Cambridge-based Internet design and marketing company, Netflare revealed some startling statistics about small businesses and eCommerce.
Stats like:
- 23% of sites hadn’t been updated since their launch leading to inaccurate and obsolete content
- Only 8% even had an eCommerce element to their site
- 25% had no way of tracking online [...]

10 ways to get ‘New’ product ideas

1. Solve an existing problem for people. There are thousands of problems in the world. Create a product that can provide a solution to one of those problems.
2. Find out what’s the current hot trend. You can find out what the new trends are by watching T.V, reading magazines and surfing the net. Just create [...]