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46 Ways To Start A Business With No Money. Most people who want to start their own business don’t have a ton of money laying around and it’s probably one the most common questions I get emailed about: How can I get started without a lot of cash? Well I’ve put together a list below of the best ideas I’ve heard and personally used. I hope you find it useful! The three basic strategies to starting a business without much money are: Delay the normal “business starting” activities like incorporating, hiring, renting office or retail space, etc until AFTER your business has started earning money. This is known as bootstrapping.Doing everything yourself and spending your personal time instead of hiring an expert.

(Takes longer but costs less.)Using some neat tricks and little known deals below. Start With The Easy Stuff: Eliminate Expenses Don’t rent an office! Legal Stuff and Incorporating Make a website for your business Getting a Logo Don’t hire a fancy graphic designer. Accepting Credit Cards Creating Info Products What did I miss?

Outils pour entrepreneurs

Vis ma vie d'entrepreneur. Trouver le nom de sa startup | Creation d'entreprise ! | Guilhem Bertholet. Lorsqu’un enfant naît (ou quand vous adoptez un chat ou un chien, ou que vous mettez à jour un iPhone pour la première fois), vous lui donnez un nom… Il en va de même avec une entreprise, et même avec votre projet. Pas de nom pour votre startup ? Dépêchez-vous d'en trouver un pour officialiser la naissance !

Je suis en effet toujours assez embêté lorsque je parle avec quelqu’un de son projet, et qu’on doit utiliser un « nom de code », ou pire, pas de nom du tout. En fait, la seule raison pour ne pas avoir de nom à votre projet, c’est que vous n’êtes pas sûr du besoin auquel vous voulez répondre. Dès que vous avez un tant soit peu avancé, et que donc vous savez plus ou moins sur quel marché vous allez agir, il est temps d’avoir votre nom et de commencer à le crier au et fort. Avoir un nom, très rapidement, c’est en effet : Sauf que voilà, sauf à être un génie du « naming », trouver un nom relève parfois de la galère, et dans son souci de perfection, on peut y passer plusieurs semaines.

The Story So Far | Struct.ca. For this week’s iDevBlogADay post, I’m going to take a detailed look at the history of Trainyard, from its humble beginnings to its current position high up the App Store charts. Yes, there will be sales data. This’ll be a long one, so settle down and enjoy In the beginning Trainyard started out as a couple of scribbles on a notepad in May of 2009. You can read a detailed description of that process in my Trains on Paper blog post, but I’ll summarize it here. At the time, I was prototyping ideas for Flash games, because I’d been doing professional Flash development for four years and so it was the only game making technology I knew really well.

One day, while sitting on the train as during my daily commute, the concept for a game involving trains filled with paint came into my head. The familiar As an avid iPhone user since it first came out, I had wanted to learn to develop for it, but I thought it would be way too complicated. Preparation Winter At this point, it was October 2009. With a Little Help From His Friends. In early 2001 he tried to launch his own Internet company, and to redeem himself. “It had to have the potential to be as big as Napster,” he says. “Otherwise it wasn’t interesting to me.” He realized his electronic address book was getting out of date.

Maybe everyone could use help keeping theirs current. Could that be a company? Eventually, Parker and some partners managed to land some seed money from Sequoia, the prestigious Silicon Valley venture-capital firm. He began to hang around with some of his newfound San Francisco friends, including night owl Jonathan Abrams, a programmer who had launched Friendster in 2002, in part to help people hook up. One day—in a scene fictionalized in The Social Network—Parker saw Thefacebook, as it was then known, on the computer of his roommate’s girlfriend, a student at Stanford. Matt Cohler, who joined Thefacebook shortly after Parker, is awed when he thinks about that pivotal e-mail. “Why do we all put up with it?”

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How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application. The Digg/Ferriss Connection.