December 13th, 2007
I don’t plug websites, and I don’t want any of my posts to come across as such. However, I ran across this site called the Club E Network. I’m going to start off by telling you what this is - then I will go to everything I don’t like about the site - […]
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December 11th, 2007
Today, I will show you the wrong way to write a “Market” section of your business plan. The italics will be the plan, while the plain text will be my comments. Since this is the first installment of my business plan series, shall we begin with the basics?
Step 1: Make product
Step 2: Promote product
Step 3: […]
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December 8th, 2007
You’re 19, you have the perfect idea for a business, but you have no investors. You need a front of over $50,000 to get your business started (which is pretty cheap), but the only people from whom you can ask money is your family. Like any business, you aren’t 100% sure if it will take […]
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December 4th, 2007
If you haven’t heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it goes something like this:
If you put an infinite amount of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, all hitting random keys, they will type up William Shakespeare’s complete works.
Let’s apply this to business startups. If you put an infinite amount of young, ambitious entrepreneurs in […]
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November 30th, 2007
Oliver Bishop (left) of Steak Media and Dan McGuire (right) of Broadbean Technology (web 2.0verkill?) were announced as the winners of the Young Entrepreneurs Award, as chosen by the Growing Business Awards. This was the first time the judges announced two winners for the Young Entrepreneur Award. Hats off to them! […]
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November 30th, 2007
For the 1 reader who lives in South Dakota, you’re in luck! According to CNN’s 10 Best States for Starting a Business, it costs the least to start a business in the bustling state of South Dakota. South Dakota, with a population of - uhmm… five… apparently has the cheapest property tax, utilities […]
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November 26th, 2007
That’s right, I said it. Young Entrepreneurs have the ability to create better businesses than the older generation. Do we have more wisdom? Probably not. Do we have more business experience? Eh, not really. In this age, businesses are driven, displayed, marketed, and sometimes even conducted on the internet. With the younger generation growing up […]
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October 19th, 2007
There are two very simple things you can do this weekend to become a better young entrepreneur.
1) Read Seth Godin’s Bootstrapper’s Bible
2) Read this post by Young Entrepreneurs of America
Congratulations, you are now a better young entrepreneur. That was rather simple wasn’t it?
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October 16th, 2007
Good news everybody, according to London Stock Exchange there are 20,700 more of us.
There has been a big rise in the numbers of people under 25 who set up their own businesses, the survey by Barclays has revealed.Estimates say that 20,700 businesses were started by this age group in the first half of 2007, compared […]
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October 12th, 2007
The end is in reach, the bulk of the work is done, and there’s only the minor details left to see it through. Or is there? These minor details are usually the final 20% of you’re project. It’s a tedious, time-consuming, chunk of work outstanding.
It an essay that needs rewriting and proof-reading
It’s a fantastic event that […]
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