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| » Back to categories | Small Business Trends The On-Again Off-Again Entrepreneur A trend I am seeing increasingly is what I dub the “on-again off-again entrepreneur.” The on-again off-again entrepreneur is someone who moves back and forth between being employed and owning his or her own business — multiple times. It’s not an either/or question: either being an entrepreneur your whole life, or being employed your whole life. More frequently these days, people are doing both at various times, moving in and out of entrepreneurship as the exigencies of earning a living force their hands. April 6, 2006 |
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 | Searchblog From Pull to Point: How to Save The Economist and The Journal from Irrelevance The night after the conference ended, I decompressed in my hotel room with Jonathan Weber, my editorial partner in the Industry Standard, and Steve Ellis, who runs an innovative music company called Pump Audio. Talk turned to what constituted "quality writing" in a journalistic sense. I'm not without a dog in this particular hunt, as it's been the central premise of both my previous magazine launches, and is at the center of a new venture I'm noodling now that the conference is over. October 11, 2004 |
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| | Searchblog From Pull to Point: How to Save The Economist and The Journal from Irrelevance The night after the conference ended, I decompressed in my hotel room with Jonathan Weber, my editorial partner in the Industry Standard, and Steve Ellis, who runs an innovative music company called Pump Audio. Talk turned to what constituted "quality writing" in a journalistic sense. I'm not without a dog in this particular hunt, as it's been the central premise of both my previous magazine launches, and is at the center of a new venture I'm noodling now that the conference is over. October 11, 2004 |
 | TechCrunch Don’t Blow Your Beta I’ve seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release. In addition to my personal experiences with companies, I recently wrote “What Annoys You Most About Betas?” on Crunchnotes to help me prepare for this post. The comments to that post give a lot of direct feedback from early adopters and much of that information is reflected here as well. January 9, 2006 Web Apps 101: Your Three Point Success Plan Building a web app is easy. Building a successful and profitable web app is where most people fail. In this new series of articles, I will share valuable strategies and tips for building successful web apps. I’ll be covering everything from powerful marketing strategies, how to build a quality team, tips for great customer support and finally, exit strategies. Building a web app is no different than launching any other product - it needs to be backed by solid business principles. You’ll need funding, a real audience, a solid monetization model, a marketing plan, quality support, and good project management. March 22, 2007 |
 | How to Change the World The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning. December 30, 2005 The Art of Schmoozing The Guy Kawasaki Theory of Schmoozing version 1.0 was ad hoc: get to know the people that you need for a specific deal. It was short-term and focused.Version 2.0 is ad infinitum--maybe even ad nauseam. It's taken me twenty years, but I've figured out that it's much easier to make a sale, build partnerships, create joint ventures--you name it--with people that you already know than with people you just met. February 01, 2006 The Art of Creating a Community I admit it: I’m a user-group junkie. I got my first taste of user groups when I worked for Apple—speaking at their meetings was one of my great pleasures. Their members were unpaid, raging, inexorable thunderlizard evangelists for Macintosh and Apple II.Now that I gotten that off my chest; I can move on to the topic of this entry: how to create a kick-ass community. I anticipate many comments to this entry, so I am warning you in advance that I am going to modify and supplement this entry frequently. RSS readers beware! :-) February 14, 2006 |
 | Found Read The 1st Year is theHardest Just in case you missed it: On July 5, GigaOM celebrated its 1st Birthday. In Om’s humble tribute to his first 365 days as an entrepreneur, Found|READ’s indefatigable leader, and muse, reflected on his biggest lesson of all: that the work of a founder is non-stop; “no pauses, no breaks, no time to stop and smell the roses.” As Om now knows, a founder’s life is filled, mainly, with attempting new things, recognizing one’s mistakes, and making adjustments. “Each day was different, each situation unique… we all learned how to deal with whatever came our way.” Which is why he is always drawn to baseball analogies. Pitch. Analyze. Adjust. Like a pitcher on the mound. Which, ultimately, is just what a founder is — the person who puts the game in play. Not that all of you don’t already know this, but on the occasion of my friend’s anniversary, here’s to all of you who put the game in motion. You give the rest of us a reason to take the field. July 10, 2007 |
 | Web Worker Daily 6 Tried and True Ways to Make MoneyOnline So you want a job that allows you to work from home or café while connecting online with people around the globe? But none of our new ways to make money online suit? Consider whether one of these more proven pathways to earning income online might be right for you. July 10, 2007 |
| | Small Business Trends Working On, Not In, The Business How often have you heard a trainer or consultant say that as the owner of the business you should be working “on it” rather than “in it?” I’ve said it often myself. Fortunately, no one has ever asked me exactly what that meant. It appears to be a cliche or phrase that has become accepted although not clearly defined or understood. October 16, 2007 The On-Again Off-Again Entrepreneur A trend I am seeing increasingly is what I dub the “on-again off-again entrepreneur.” The on-again off-again entrepreneur is someone who moves back and forth between being employed and owning his or her own business — multiple times. It’s not an either/or question: either being an entrepreneur your whole life, or being employed your whole life. More frequently these days, people are doing both at various times, moving in and out of entrepreneurship as the exigencies of earning a living force their hands. April 6, 2006 |
