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Different people have different thinking and develop diverse paradigms regarding their personal lives and their business as well. Some consider it comfortable to run a business which has a home office and the common perception is that less costs have to be incurred if business is operational from home. But, in this time of high…
So we’ve all heard about gorilla marketing and how effective it can be, but how difficult is it? Whoever named it GORILLA marketing definitely knew how brutal it can be. Recently we decided to go to over 1000 different apartments throughout Boston putting fliers under people’s doors, it was exhausting. The most difficult part of…
Five years after the fall of communism, the people of Eastern Europe enjoy more freedom than they have known for decades. In most countries, despite the enormous economic problems in moving to a capitalist economy, their material standards of living have increased as well. But reports from those countries make it clear that they face…
So today I spent almost all day working out of my couch and loved it. I was able to focus very well on everything that I needed to get done. One thing that was extremely useful was making a list of what I needed to get done today before beginning. I started working at 5am today…
As a start up, chances are that you don’t have the budget to hire a CFO so you are the CEO/CFO/COO/CSO and so on. The trick to it is to get lots and lots of help through the beauty that is financial software programs and to take everything one step at a time. Depending on…
Many of us forget about how important all of the legal work is when starting a new venture, but it is critical. Sure it is sometimes difficult to talk about it when your partner is your friend or spouse, but it is a must because it will come back to haunt you later on. There…
This weekend I moved into a new apartment and hurt my back doing it so I spent today resting on the couch and looking into interesting business opportunities. One interesting trend is the growing population of Hispanics in the United States. According to the US Census Bureau, as of July 1 2006 there were 44.3 million Hispanics…
The more entrepreneurs that I speak with the more I find that many of them have a small website, but don’t know much about online marketing and are willing to drop ship so long as you manage the site and marketing for them; all for a percentage of each sale of course. Dropshipping is a…
Today I met a fellow entrepreneur at his “day job”, this was a first for me. A day job and entrepreneurship never really occurred to me as something that could exist simultaneously, amazing. This fellow entrepreneur shared with me that getting a job does not necessarily mean that you have to quit being an entrepreneur, but instead have found…
If you truly care about a meeting you will be on time, it’s as simple as that. Yes, sometimes there are some extreme situations, but 99% of the time you truly have no excuse for being late. If you arrive late to a meeting it does not mean that you don’t care, but that you…
