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Advertising is Negotiable…Really
As some of my ventures have grown and required the need for advertising and marketing expenditures I quickly realized that advertising inventory is regularly negotiable. Even big companies like Google Adwords and Overture regularly offer coupons for new customers. A quick search will turn them up. Other small networks allow you to [...]
Deferred Compensation
A great trick I uncovered this summer is ‘deferred compensation’. Say I have a great new idea for a business that is going to change the world. Whenever I tell someone about the idea they get really excited and want to know how to help. However, I do not have all the [...]
Business plans?
One evening I had the privilege of having dinner with David Friend, a serial tech entrepreneur, and currently the CEO and founder of Carbonite (a new back up solution that keeps all your personal data safe). He had a very interesting perspective on business plans. He had never made a business plan for [...]
Bootstrapper Economics
I was walking around my house yesterday and had a flash of inspiration. It may be nothing or it could be a new award winning economic model. The goal of economics is to take complicated situations in our society and break them down into simple frameworks. For instance, you know intuitively (and [...]
Entrepreneur Bootstrappers
I am very excited to be one of the contributors to the bootstrapping column of Mindpetals. Bootstrapping is not a buzzword, individual technique, or get rich quick scheme. It is a philosophy of entrepreneurship. Bootstrapping is the truest form of entrepreneurship, doing more with less is the central tenet.
Why is this important?
When someone wants to [...]
Mock Up Site: Alternative to a Business Plan
If you are attempting to start a venture that will require some sort of internet presence you may be able to find a way to impress potential investors without the need of an in depth business plan.
How do you do it? It is pretty simple. Just buy a professional looking website template and logo template [...]
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