Oh yeah, you knew this was coming from me at some point, didn’t you. This is the 21st Thursday column “the aloha lady” has written for Leon (thank you for loving me Leon!) and it’s February, just two days after Valentine’s Day, so I’m taking my shot. Now don’t roll your eyes. Be brave, be open-minded…

In entrepreneurship, it is not the end of the world if you cannot get venture capital. Without any funds from venture capital, you still could launch your product or services by bootstrapping your business. Guy Kawasaki has posted an article called The Art of Bootstrapping which talks this exact topic – how to pull off…

Getting a website on the net as a novice isn’t exactly cake. It requires registering a domain name (example.com), hiring a web designer, and paying a monthly fee to host the site. A content management system is also preferable over paying a web designer hourly to make updates when he can fit it…

Most of the Entrepreneurship articles focus on why you should start up your own business. This article Why I Quit Entrepreneurship and Got a Real Job by Rob takes a different spins. He talks about why he left entrepreneurship and re-joined the corporate world again. He discusses what have he learned – in summary: Entrepreneurship…

Sam Decker, at Decker Marketing, gives a good tutorial at the beginning of 2006. Actually 12 of them for us to work on them every month to arhieve one goal – what to say ‘No’. Actually, I found saying ‘No’ is hard, especially when I have just started working. Throughout my career, I found out…

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger has a nice post on some lessons he have learned from his 3 years of blogging. Some of them are really true, and this is a must read if you are blogging, if your blog to be a hit – no matter if you commericalize your blog or not: Be Lucky Work Hard Use…

In an article called The First Year: 7 Lessons Learned, James Archer from Forty Media talks about what he has learned about running a business. They are some good tips: Lesson 1: Don’t forget to plan for success. Lesson 2: Don’t let the Good keep you from the Great. Lesson 3: Don’t deliver junk. Lesson 4: Long hours? Poor…

Chris Campbell from Praticletree has given a very practical piece on starting your own business in US. Bottomline is that you have to deal with paperwork, legal and accounting which is pretty troublesome if you haven’t encounter this before. This article gives an overview from business genesis, accounting, to legal – linking to some good…

No matter if you are in business or personal life, you need to deal with emails. Some people underestimate the importance of carefully dealing anything related with email. Making mistake in your email will definitely make you look bad and even kill off your credibility. Kim Komando has written an article on 8 email mistakes…

Chetan Dhruve has published a ChangeThis Manifesto called Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator, which suggests a idea on putting voting system for choosing leaders by subordinates. He describes some examples of why elected person is a leader but appointment of the management job will lead managers to be dictators: … When…

There’s a great post over The Lazy Way to Success about how to start a business without money. Fred Gratzon shows you that all you need is not money, but is your knowledge and passion on the business. He have bootstrapped two businesses from no business experience and knowledge on the field, to being successful…

At Thinking Faster, Jeffrey Phillips introduced his mental framework on solving problems. He uses an analogy of a wedding cake, which has different layers, and they are distinct yet inter-related to help him decide how to categorize and solve problems: At the top – Strategy Next down – Process / Culture Next down – software applications / tools At…

Before you decide the Pareto Principle is true and can be used to guide your actions, I want to ask two important questions. Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? And can you do so in advance? And does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions?

Economic is an essential topic for life. If you are working, understanding economics will help you understanding how are the products and services of your company relate to the markets and consumers. Why some products can mark the price so high and still there are demands on purchase? How services and products decrease its value?…

Keith Robinson over Lifehacker has done a feature article on starting a business without any venture capital or borrowing money. He have started his own company a while ago without third party investment or borrowing money, and it is good to read the first hand tips from him on this front. Ten tips at your…