Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
Two Great Talks Every Entrepreneur Should Watch
I’m not really much of a conference guy. Even if I had the money and time to fly all over the world to attend tech conference after tech conference, I don’t think I’d do it.
In terms of interaction, I’ve met tons of great young business owners from around the world online using [...]
How One Book Changed My Career
I don’t know why, but I found myself thinking about this the other day and it kind of blew my mind.
Above is a picture of PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Websites by Larry Ullman, my very first web development book that I purchased in the Summer of 2004. I bought it for $24.99 at [...]
Looking Forward to 2010
I’m not really a big New Year’s Resolution guy. I mean, what’s the real difference between last week and this week? All that changed was the calendar.
But in business it’s a little different. When your fiscal year aligns with the calendar year like ours does, it just makes sense to take [...]
Putting the Pieces Together – Teens, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Unemployment
Everyone is up in arms about the unemployment rate in the US being around 10%.
One of the best ways to create jobs is to encourage small business growth. According to the Small Business Association (SBA), small businesses:
Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
Pay 44 percent of total [...]
The Difference Between School, Work, and Entrepreneurship
Effort. You need effort to succeed a traditional corporate environment. You need it to succeed in academia. You need it to succeed when you start a business. But when it comes to running a company, effort doesn’t guarantee that you succeed like it does in the other two.
When you’re in [...]
snailmailr is Brilliant!
I recently discovered snailmailr, a nifty website that lets you send real mail (i.e. “snail mail”) online for only 99 cents per letter, postage included. As you can see from the picture, the interface is dead simple. You can write your letter with their online editor or you can attach a Word Document, PDF, Powerpoint [...]
How to Judge Anything You Read
I love to read. Almost every day I read blogs, magazines, and books. Much like Mark Cuban, who claims to read 3 hours per day, I make it a huge priority even on the busiest of days to find some time to read:
Most people won’t put in the time to get a knowledge [...]
So You Want to Learn How to Program?
When I guest lectured at James Madison a few weeks back I was asked a couple of questions from students interested in learning how to program. I get those questions in various forms all the time. I decided to write a post about how I’d recommend going from nothing to programming a [...]
Always On Call
The flexibility and freedom you have when you run your own company is awesome. Now that I’ve experienced it for a few years, it’s something I don’t ever want to give up. But there’s a flip side. If you are critical to your company’s operations (and let’s be real, if you’re bootstrapping a small business, [...]
