One of my favorite bloggers, Steve Pavlina, has done a good piece on warning about mistakes that people usually make as a self-employed person. He uses couple of good stories and his experience on discussing his ten mistakes: Selling to the wrong people Spending too much money Spending too little money Putting on a fake front Assuming a signed…

Alliance for Nonprofit Management has a quick frequently asked questions on strategic planning. So what is strategic planning? Strategic planning is a management tool, period. As with any management tool, it is used for one purpose only: to help an organization do a better job – to focus its energy, to ensure that members of the…

This article, Marc Hedlund has written a lot of quick tips and wisdom on many aspects on entrepreneurship. From things like starting up, coming up with ideas, managing people, releasing product, to dealing with money, he has couple of good points for each of those aspects. The one that I really want to quote is…

Kurt Williams has done a good piece on describing the close relationship between startups and overtime. It is often startups “encourage” developer to sacrifice their personal life to work over 9 hours per day. However overtime may not worth because eventually it will burn out employees and it may only have small temporary gain on…

When you start a business, there are chances that you try to search how to be successful while the bussiness already in operation. This is a part of business growth but it is a hard and neverous task. D. Keith Robinson and his co-founders in their business has the similar stage right now – how…

I just love the free stuff – Bruce Judson has kindly released his book Go it Alone to his home page. This 229 pages long book talks about how to quit your day job and start-up a business and be an entrepreneur – in specifically, a go-it-alone business. What does it take to launch your…

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…

Every weekday, my reoccurring wish is not suffer through another traffic jam. Every two weeks, there is an urge to be independent and to control my own destiny. Every month jealousy rages when the media celebrates another start-up company with an un-extraordinary idea. And every year there is a realization…time is slipping…

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…

Presentation Guru Guy Kawasaki introduces a rule called 10/20/30 PowerPoint rule in one of his recent blog posts. What is it? He describes, “a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.” He mentions this is extremely important rule to follow when you…

Gus Mueller, the guy behind the popular Mac notepad application VoodooPad, has given 7 Lessons on becoming an independent programmer – or in the other word, a software entrepreneur. Those are good insights and authentic advices as he has gone through his journey from hobby to build up an incorporate business: Think small and make…

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…

Evan Williams at EvHead has a good post on how to launch a successful web startups by using ten rules. His track record speak for itself on this – he was co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, makers of Blogger. Ten (well, actually eleven) rules from him are: Be Narrow Be Different Be Casual Be Picky Be User-Centric Be Self-Centered Be Greedy Be…