Legal. The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. One of the best things I ever did was quit my day job and become self-employed. I’m so happy with it that I’m recommending it to everyone: my kids, my friends, my sisters. One sister has already started her own fitness business and I’m strongly urging the other to go out on her own as well. And while being your own boss can be scary and a little risky, it’s not as difficult as people think.
Is that all there is to it? Let’s briefly look at some of the things I’ve learned, in hopes that it’ll help you on your journey to freedom. First: Can Anyone Be Self-Employed? But … I think there’s a fallacy that those who start their own businesses or work on their own are somehow born with an “entrepreneurial spirit” that the regular workaday employees just don’t have that. I think that’s a load of crap. And I don’t think anyone really likes being told what to do, and working on someone else’s terms, doing things someone else wants to do.
10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups. Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes. This is part of my ongoing series “Startup Advice” If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here.
In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. Here are some lessons to avoid common traps. 1. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. 2. Don’t believe me? 3. Why? I know that 6-12% is more than most senior executives who join start-ups get. 4. 5. 6.
Starting A Business – 6th Month Review. Well here we are again, another month's review, though admittedly this month is going to be looking back across both June and July as I totally missed the "5th month" review completely.
Incidentally, while the numbering of months will stay the same, this is going to be the last "Starting A Business" post. Half a year in, I think that the business is well and truly 'started' - so from now on these posts will be called "Running A Business" - which seems more appropriate! (edit: I've decided to wait until after the 1-year mark to do this.) The Business So here's a rough guide to what I've been doing for the last two months, which have been admittedly rather quiet on the blog-front.
In Detail To say that the last couple of months have been difficult would be the understatement of my year so far! The highlight of the last couple of months was definitely the feature in .NET Mag (one of my 2009 goals). My biggest failure has been still not launching the new design for this blog! Goals for August. 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups. Thinking about starting a business? Here is why you shouldn’t! How Gen-Y Startups Use Social Media to Shatter the Status Quo. Greg Rollett is a 20something marketing guy who helps 20somethings live a Rock Star Lifestyle through leveraging social media, nontraditional education and embracing social change.
He also helps the homeless Rock (for Hunger). Find him on Twitter, @g_ro. With 22.7% of 16-19 year olds unemployed and the financial and corporate landscape contracting right in front of them, the so-called Y Generation (Gen-Y) currently has the opportunity to take a strong hold on today’s business landscape. And it seems that they intend to. Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full-time job and 70% of today's high schoolers plan on starting their own companies.
To this group of current and upcoming entrepreneurs, social media is playing an increased role in all aspects of their business. Using Social Media Of the 30 entrepreneurs profiled for the 2008 Inc Top 30 Under 30, 18 have personal or business Twitter accounts and 19 host personal or corporate blogs.