This past year I have flown a lot, I mean a lot. Over 115,000 payed miles one United alone, 3 free flights on United, and a couple random flights on Northwest and Hawaiian. All in all about 150,000 miles spent in the air. And the year isn’t over yet! During that year in the air …
Entrepreneurship
Interesting Articles About Weblogs, Inc. Early Days
I’ve been doing a bit of researching on business models and plans for building an online media and entertainment company and stumbled across a few interesting articles about Weblogs, Inc.’s early days when Jason Calacanis was a pie in the sky dreamer it seems like. The article was found from this reporting and deals with …
Paul Graham and Mistakes that Kill Startups
From his bio it says “Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer.” He co-developed the “first web-based application, ViaWeb.” He also sold that web-based application to Yahoo, described the spam filter basics used by most filters today, is writing a new programing language, and also helps run a venture capital firm specializing …
Making Money Brokering a Domain Sale
I just read an interesting article about over at Tyler Cruz’s blog about a domain sale he brokered. He made a pretty penny at it too. You could call it right place at the right time, but it was definitely an opportunity that most might not see and very very few would actually have gone …
Teach Yourself How To Write a Business Plan
In response to my previous article asking should I go to business school I’ve jumped full force into researching what it takes to start a legitimate business in the eyes of investors. True, if you’re making money hand over fist who cares if you have a well defined structure. But if you want to truly …
Is Real Life Business Experience Better than B-School?
I’d like to start out by saying IMHO, real-life anything experience is more valuable than what you can learn in schools. With that being said. I’d like to follow that quickly up with saying going to school, whatever it is, can help you in ways real-life experience can’t. So which one is it? I’ve already …
Do you think it’s worth $100 Million?
First off I want to say that I didn’t spend more than a minute at the site. Just long enough to sign-up and notice that during sign-up and right afterwards the site doesn’t tell you what it’s about. The site I’m talking about is Geni.com and was recently talked about over at Tech Crunch. I …
Comprehensive Blog Sale Article
I found this post via problogger, I know shocking, blog news found first on problogger.net, but I had to share this with you all. Since my audience is predominantly Internet entrepreneurs I thought you can never have too many buying and selling websites articles. I mean, most of us would sell off all our Internet …
An Example in Sales – Buying and Selling Surfboards
I was able to buy and sell surfboards using the online classified community craigslist.com. If you live in an area where people move in and out a lot there is probably something that everyone sells when they move and those coming in buy when they arrive.
How to sell Gold and Silver on eBay
Precious Metals have long been the medium for exchange. When the dollar is down precious metals are up. Until recently I only thought Silver and Gold Bullion were for Kings and Queens But did you know you could go down to your local pawn shop or jewelry shop and chances are pretty good their are Bullion for sale.