Do you need a Sandillow?
Are becoming an entrepreneur? I am not sure if I ever wasn’t (?) an entrepreneur but the last 2 months have put my creative juices into overdrive. 2005 saw me buying and selling surfboards through Craigslist, selling silver bullion on ebay, and starting to use google adsense as a primer into online advertising. In 2006 I hope to expand on the knowledge I gained from those 3 experiences and march ever closer towards my goal of becoming a millionaire in only a few years.
In order to get there I strongly believe you need to surround yourself with people who are willing to share your excitement with whatever you are trying to accomplish. I have been feeding my drive through reading blogs like Yaro’s and Steve Pavlina’s, but more importantly through my friends. Within the last month 3 people close to me have begun entrepreneurial endeavours of their own. Cesar, Kevin and Courtney, and my brother have all jumped in, feet first, to the world of online entrepreneurship.
Cesar, for starters, has been mentioned several times within this blog. A former co-worker, he is in the transition stage of moving from Honolulu, Hawaii where he had a steady job as an engineer, to L.A., where he plans to stay job free for as long as possible. Check out his blog at FleetheCube.com where he discusses how he is becoming an online entrepreneur. His current projects are working on domain state, building content based niche web pages, and thinking or more creative ways to park his domain state like his page BuyiPodVideo.com.
Kevin and Courtney - Kevin is my old college roommate who lives in Chi-town with his fiance (Courtney). He an I have big plans for the future, involving business ventures, but for now we are learning what we can with our respective jobs; he trades options on the CBOT and I am an engineer at a BioTech. He and his fiance have also been developing a great little product that I think will be a huge hit, especially here in Hawaii. The basic idea behind it is a pillow you can take to the beach that breathes and is comfortable. The real design is in the pillow case which is removable for use with your favorite pillow. I won’t try and describe it much more, I just direct you over to their great site at Sandillow.com. He is on his way learning about the ins and outs of both product design and marketing.
Lastly my brother, Jeremy. He has really jumped into the online business world and is taking on multiple projects at once. He is currently investing a lot of time into managing product sales on eBay, trying to find his market and make a name for himself. Check his products out at his eBay site. Along with that he is developing several other sites with great potential. Jeremy has a very creative side which he is trying to explore and capitalize on. There will definitely be more to write about in the not so distant future. I have also joined forces with him and we have come up with a great online venture we hope to publish and promote within the next month or so. Stay tuned for more on that.
These 3 people are just a sample of those I love to surround myself with. People not afraid to take the risks associated with entrepreneurship. All of us want financial independence and the ability to be our own bosses. Go check out all their sites and help support their projects. Spread the word even. As for what you should do after that… Find some people with similar goals and feed off of each others drive. Knowing someone close to you is trying their hardest will only make you want to succeed more.
Aloha,
Erik
2006 is the year of the online entrepreneurs
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[...] NavigationHome Archives January 2006 Categories Current Events (1) Productivity (3) Reviews (1) Site (3) Stuff On Other Blogs (3) Things That Piss Me Off (3) Translation (3) StatsBlogs that link hereView my profileSubscribe: RDF or RSSPowered by Wordpress Links43 ThingsAmazon wishlistOKCupidOpera User I Read TheseSteve PavlinaSuccess Begins TodayGood At Everything To-DoBy priority:Buttons/info/layout in navPHPCurrentlyJoin Google AdsenseInstall SimpbookCSS/HTML/XHTML validate home : about : contact : admin « Unable To See : Saturday, January 14th, 2006 - What the hell is a Sandillow? Yesterday, I link-exchanged for the first time, with the esteemed Erik Vossman. Maybe now I’ll have more than zero people reading my posts! On the same day, he posted about entrepreneurialism. Is that even a word? Yes it is, I looked it up. Anyway, in this latest article, he talked about the importance of surrounding yourself with people enthusiastic about entrepreneurialism. Well, I guess the same concept could apply to stamp-collecting or golf. It got me thinking about my business. Hah, you thought this was just a personal blog, didn’t you? No, soon I’ll post my translation prices for all to see. If and when I get my book(s) published, this will be like the “Author’s Official Blog”. Then, people can find out that you don’t have to be smart or interesting to write a good book! I have some business plans for the future; I plan to work for a few companies on the ladder, starting with DramaQueen, working my way up through Digital Manga and into the big big time (TokyoPop, VIZ, Dark Horse, ADV…). But this is all for experience and establishing contacts. Alright, and for capital. How can you start a business without capital? That’s what I plan to do. I’ve been researching Studio Proteus and others like it, and plan to write a much more detailed article for Wikipedia than the one currently up. But my dream is to build a studio just like them. License the manga, translate, letter, and typeset it, and then hand it over to a big company like TokyoPop for printing and distro. Now, I’d never be able to do this whole job by myself. First off, I know absolutely nothing about licensing a manga. Maybe the company I sell it to would handle this part? I can translate fine, but if we started handling multiple projects I’d need some helpers. Then, you come to the fact that I can’t letter worth shit. I think my handwriting is very nice, but it ain’t comics material. I figure, after a few years of working for the big companies, I’ll have enough contacts and capital to pull together a studio and license a small manga. I can work my way up from there. The name? Evil Eye Studios. I settled on that a few years back, after finishing the first draft of Eden Green and its sequel Violet Sky. For those of you who haven’t read the manuscript (maybe 10 people have), the main character (villain?) is a teenager with an eye tattooed on her forehead, psychosomatically lending her psychic powers. Combine that with the fact that I’m a Hiei fangirl, and it makes sense. Mom says it’s a gross name. I don’t get that at all. So in about fifteen years, when you go to buy the latest manga, check inside and see if there’s an evil eye watching you from the credits page.Posted in Site, Stuff On Other Blogs, Translation by FekketCantenel | [...]