Running a Small Business – Free Tools | Wizkid Sound. Running a studio is more than recording bands. It's scheduling, project planning, invoicing, and everything else that goes into any other small business. But producer/engineers have to be cool while doing the business side of things. Otherwise you lose your aura of awesome. When we first started out, I signed up for just about every web account I could get my hands on that might potentially help us run our business smoothly. There wasn't really much business to manage, but I sure was ready for it. The running joke became, "Hey Dan, I found this website that... " After two years running Wizkid Sound, we've got the tools down.
Scheduling - Google Calendar Dan and I share two Google Calendars, one for scheduling at the studio, and the other for sharing events that we might both be interested in, like concerts. Project Planning - Basecamp Basecamp from 37Signals is an excellent project planning tool. Contact Management - Highrise Invoicing - Freshbooks Yawn. Taxes - Outright In Conclusion... SXSW session recap: Jason Fried of 37signals. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone. Ed Levine's New York Eats: David Chang Is So Stressed Out. Sometimes, just when you thought there was nothing left to write about a subject, someone comes along and writes such a good piece you can only shake your head and wish you had written it yourself. That's how I feel after reading Larissa McFarquhar's profile of David Chang in this week's New Yorker.
Chang seems to have allowed McFarquhar almost total access as he and his staff prepare to open Momofuku Ko. If you're interested in food and chefs and people in general striving to do something meaningful in their lives, you must read this piece. Chang reveals himself to be a genuinely tortured (and conflicted) if well-meaning soul with generously spirited impulses, prodigious talent, and impossibly high Thomas Keller–and–Daniel Boulud-like standards.
And as I have written many times over the years, the man can flat out cook, even if he won't admit it to himself. After the jump, some quotes from the story highlighted in the press release the New Yorker sent out. Under Pressure Momofuku Ko. How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) NOTE: I’m no longer blogging, but rather sending my thoughts, advice and insider information to my friends via email. If you would like to get my thoughts by email visit www.jasonnation.com to signup. [ UPDATE: This post caused some big debate over at TechCrunch. I respond here with the blog post titled "can you work at a startup and have a life? " I updated #11 to make my point a little less harsh, more true to my true feelings ] The HowTo team at Mahalo has been an amazing surprise effort. We didn’t plan on making howto articles, but when we built various how to search pages we realized that many howto articles were, well, lacking.
I’ve got a bunch of tips on how to do this for business. Buy Macintosh computers, save money on an IT departmentBuy second monitors for everyone, they will save at least 30 minutes a day, which is 100 hours a year… which is at least $2,000 a year…. which is $6,000 over three years. Get an expensive, automatic espresso machine at the office. Thingamy: stuff to run your business. Fractals of Change. Entrepreneur.com - Business & Small Business. Enterprise Nation | Homeworking information, inspiration and connections | Homeworking information, work at home, homeworking jobs, opportunities. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.
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