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Archive for January 2008

January 19th, 2008

Oh Crap Situation 9: The Neighbors

Business is booming - your store really sets the standards for hobby shops.  In fact, you are only several months’ income away from actually purchasing your building (as opposed to renting).  Things are going spectacularly - that is, until new neighbors moved in.  I am not talking about just any neighbors - I am talking […]

By Jim Gordon -- 4 comments

January 18th, 2008

So I Was Thinking About the iPod…

Visualize the iPod.  You know what it looks like.  It’s a small, simple plastic m4a player (I think the format is m4a) that essentially started the “simplify” trend - in my opinion, at least.  As entrepreneurs, do you think this is a constructive design direction?  Is a lack of artistic design something that people want […]

By Jim Gordon -- 3 comments

January 17th, 2008

Finding Time Sometime Later to Manage Procrastination

So I was talking to Miki from Leadership Turn and we happened to discuss procrastination. Long story short, I was called an amateur procrastinator and invited to elaborate on my newbie procrastination methods. Considering there is a bit of a generational difference, I may have fewer stories - but let’s begin with the […]

By Jim Gordon -- 13 comments

January 16th, 2008

Creative Ways to Advertise

A clever yoga ad from Hong Kong:

Tags: advertising, creative_ads, hong_kong, Marketing, yogaShare This

By Jim Gordon -- 2 comments

January 15th, 2008

Hard Times With Hard Drives

This picture shows a hard drive. A hard drive stores information. They are also supposed to work when you order a new one. Here’s the thing - I am on my SECOND hard drive within a month and it came broken in the mail… AGAIN. Now I am not talking about just […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 14th, 2008

Sunday Young Entrepreneur Links

Young Republican entrepreneurs and business professionals prefer Ron Paul.
In Phoenix, Arizona, Ron Paul won the GOP vote for young professionals with 80% of the vote. That’s a pretty significant percentage. According to the website, “Paul opposes the war and most government spending. He wants to dismantle the Internal Revenue Service and what he […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 13th, 2008

Oh Crap Situation 8: The Hard Drive

You have just opened up a non-franchise store and you’re done moving things in (finally) and are about to open.  You have everything set up so when you scan the product, it registers its availability on your network server.  Every other computer in the store reads the information from the server so you know it’s […]

By Jim Gordon -- 4 comments

January 13th, 2008

So What is the Average Entrepreneur Salary?

I did a bit of searching and found that the average salary for an entrepreneur who starts a succeeding business is around $39,000-$61,000, which is pretty significant for anyone who is fresh out of college. The source of this information is from the WorldWideLearn website. Here are some other interesting statistics:
According to the […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 11th, 2008

Fortune’s “Hiring Your First Employee”

CNN recently posted Fortune’s article titled “Hiring your first employee” as a response to this submitted question:
How does an entrepreneur go about hiring his or her first employee? What should be the first employee’s role - administrative, sales or technology? Must an owner offer a piece of the company to the employee?
I pulled out […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 10th, 2008

Top 7 Fatal Assumptions for Online Startups

Continuing with my 2-day Top # post marathon - this is the top fatal assumptions for online startups. 
The internet is easy.  It just sits there waiting for you to use it.  When you don’t want to browse or do work, it says hey, that’s cool with me, I’ll just chill here for a while.  The […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

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