Archive for the 'entrepreneurs' Category

Lessons Learned - The Make or Break Decision

Thursday 1 February 2007 @ 04:04 am

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Getting back to my series of lessons learned while making money, it is time I dove in to the biggest lesson provider and money making adventure of my life so far.
It was in 1991 when I got started making primarily one [...]

Pitch4Profit Contest - Fast Track to the Dragon’s Den

Sunday 21 January 2007 @ 11:19 pm

Today I received an email from Sean Wise announcing a way for entrepreneurs [sorry I assume this is for Canadians only] to move to the front of the line for the popular venture capital show Dragon’s Den.
…those looking to apply to be on Dragons’ Den Season Two have an interesting opportunity to “get to the [...]

Hiring - Go with Trust or Experience?

Thursday 18 January 2007 @ 07:36 pm

I have to hire someone to do a bunch of installations of WordPress. This raises an interesting question as it seems to put me into a choice between hiring someone I know and trust or someone who is a pro and experienced WordPress person. A possible third option would be to outsource it via eLance [...]

Pipeline Profits - Let’s Take Another Look

Thursday 18 January 2007 @ 06:34 am

A couple weeks ago I took aim at Pipeline Profits. Just to clarify it wasn’t because I thought what they were selling didn’t have value, it was because the way they were selling it was designed to create false hopes and liberate people from their money; whether the system was right for them or not.
I [...]

Building a Business is Like Dancing Underwater

Tuesday 16 January 2007 @ 11:29 pm

I’m finding the transition from an employee or even self-employed mentality to a business building mentality to be a bit like dancing underwater.
What is relatively simple to do as an employee or one man shop becomes a whole new ball game, with layers of complexity in a real business.
A Real Business is all about [...]

Ways to Make Money - A Paperboy

Tuesday 9 January 2007 @ 09:58 am

Now this article is going to date me so for all you young Internet whipper-snappers who are reading this, hang on to your hats - here comes a history lesson.
When I was about 11 I got my first job as a paperboy - I know that is a terribly politically incorrect term, but that’s [...]

Ways to Make Money - Lessons Learned From Jobs I’ve Done

Thursday 4 January 2007 @ 10:32 pm

I was reading over Yaro’s business timeline and it got me thinking about how I got to this point of my life. Yaro’s version, I printed it out, is about 17 pages long and I’m a lot older than he is, so I’m going to have to edit the story dramatically or Greenpeace will be [...]

Best of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs

Wednesday 3 January 2007 @ 10:13 am

There have a been a couple Carnival of Entrepreneurs in the last 2 years, but Ben from Startup Spark has taken up the project and he’s doing it right this time.
I submitted my Internet marketing cautionary tale, Pipeline Profits: Tempted? If so You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich! to this weeks edition and I [...]

Snowman VC: “I’m Gonna Need a Latte”

Tuesday 19 December 2006 @ 05:50 pm

A little peak into the world of Mr. Snowman the venture capitalist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZwu2A4Ays8

Thanks to Sean [aka Snowman Dragon ] for sharing.
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Working On Your Busines - Rather than In It

Tuesday 19 December 2006 @ 09:49 am

Last week I went to a free seminar put on by the local Business Link.
Quick tangent: in my city there is an excellent resource for entrepreneurs called the business link…probably deserves its own post, but you may want to be on the lookout for small business support from you municipal or state/provincial government. Micro [...]