Where to begin. It’s been almost a year since I have posted to this blog. It’s not that we have quit working on our startup business idea. We’ve been working but perhaps not all that effectively. I recently realized that I have been stuck “thinking big” and “acting big” and losing valuable time in the [...]
Archive for the ‘Business Skills’ Category
April 10, 2012
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The Startup Myth: Thinking Big vs. Acting Small
By Miguel in Business Skills, Entrepreneurship, Small Business
April 19, 2011
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Five Reasons not to Freelance
By Miguel in Business SkillsIt’s easy to romanticize being in business for yourself and being a one-man (or woman) show. But it’s more difficult than it sounds. To borrow from the 17th Century poet John Donne, “no man is an island.” People are just not born to work alone. Here are just a few reasons why: 1. It’s very [...]
April 5, 2010
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What’s Your Vision?
By Miguel in Business Skills“The trick in life is to decide what’s your major aim. … Once that’s settled, you can get on with the happy, orderly process of achieving it.” -Stanley Goldstein Our vision is to give owners of very small businesses and self-employed professionals like accountants, lawyers and architects cutting-edge identity design and marketing support via a [...]
Tags: 37signals, business plan, Business Skills, imagination, Jason Fried, vision
March 2, 2010
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Earn Money While You Sleep
By Miguel in Business SkillsAs designers, we are generally not known for our business acumen. Generally, we’d rather be designing someone else’s project than figuring out how to make more money for ourselves. Here is a fascinating interview via Mixergy.com with a bootstrapping design entrepreneur who built WooThemes into a $2+ million annual business. WooThemes, is a blog template, [...]