Another perennial business rule, and it applies to everything you do: features, employees, investors, partners, press opportunities. Startups are often too eager to accept people or ideas into their world. You can almost always afford to wait if something doesn't feel just right, and false ...
You have great ideas, but no time. But that’s okay. At least you’re making small steps towards owning your own business. You’ll worry about how to execute your ideas later. It feels great. It feels like you’re on the path to freedom. 7. Opportunity Your business never gets past...
Get excited about your field of expertise but hate writing blog posts and Twittering? Part of why you’re in business for yourself is creating something from scratch and delighting customers, but the fact is that most business operations just suck. You can’t justify avoiding important tasks bec...
With 2007 right around the corner it is time for me to start this initiative. I am going to be asking questions of entrepreneurs, politicians, nonprofit leaders, and those in the business community about things that impact employment, educating the labor force, new initiatives, and growing the ...
4. Set up a small business payroll system Many online stores start out as a one-person show. But as a small business owner, there comes the time where it makes sense to hire outside help. To do this, you need to establish whether that individual is an employee or an independent co...
We metWebdamfounder Jody Vandergriff back when Webdam was a small but growing company, and we were impressed by its driven nature; the way it felt more like a Silicon Valley startup than most DAMs that we’d encountered up to that time.Recently acquired by Shutterstock, they were growing, ...
But, one too many stumbles away from your core strategy and you wake up to find that you are a small consulting business constrained by the special needs of a few powerful customers—not a rapidly growing web application with a low TCO value proposition based on a single-instance, multi-...
New prospects will visit your site every day (especially if you have useful content there, perhaps in the form of a blog) Of course, you could spend thousands on getting a website designed and created. But for most freelance writers, that’s not a realistic start-up expense. You’ll wan...
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The investors and startups in the smart-contract space promise that the block chain will enable super-fast execution and payment — for example that in healthcare applications, “instead of waiting 90–180 days for a claim to be processed, or spending hours on the phone trying to...