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Advice and Insights for Entrepreneurs

Advice and Insights for Entrepreneurs

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Fan Page List - The List of Official Facebook Fan Pages & Twitter Users Cassandra Daily In this month’s edition of First Fridays, we introduce you to Ivan Fatovic, the founder and CEO of Modamily, a new online community created to facilitate introductions between responsible, like-minded adults committed to co-parenting a child. Ivan was inspired to start the platform when he noticed a significant number of family members and friends delaying marriage and children to focus on their careers—a trend that’s not just happening within his social circle but is also becoming widespread among Generations X and Y. His belief is that co-parenting, in which two people who may never intend to marry or cohabitate agree to share responsibility for rearing kids, could protect children from growing up in households of discontent. If you had to choose one word or phrase to describe Modamily, what would it be? Co-parenting…helping people fulfill their dream of becoming a parent on their own terms. How do you define success for your enterprise? I wish I had the experience of being a parent.

7 Ways to Help You Finish Any Project Are you good at starting something new, but struggle to finish? If you are like me, you develop incredible plans. Big ideas. Remarkable dreams. It’s a great place to begin, but it’s not enough. The Tunnel of Awesome One summer my next door neighbor and I decided to build a tunnel in our back yards. An army shovel is basically a large spade with a short handle on it. His parents typically grew a vegetable garden every summer, but for some reason they didn’t that year. I know what you are thinking. Wrong. A Dying Dream We began what felt like the most important project of our lives taking turns digging with our much-too-small shovel. By lunchtime we were beginning to grow tired, and before dinner we quit. And we did what so many people do, we moved on to the next big thing. It was the first of many “incredible projects that would die without being completed. How to Become a Finisher When we start something new we often begin with an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

21 Free Tools to Help Your Small Business Succeed As small business owners we are always looking for tools to help get the job done at a low cost. Well nothing beats free! It’s truly amazing how powerful some of the free online small business tools are out there. If you’re not taking advantage of at least a few of these resources then you are missing out. These tools cover a variety of topics but almost every business probably uses their services in some way. Enjoy and let us know what tools you use in the comments. 1. This powerful product ends the challenge of storing and syncing files and documents on different devices and computers. 2. Allows you to create and collaborate on documents that you can access anywhere. 3. Great for taking notes and drafting blog posts. Find reporters who are looking for certain information & quotes for stories in your field that you can help them with. 5. A well done and extremely comprehensive Q&A site where you will find answers from high-level entrepreneurs, ceo’s and executives. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

What I’ve Learned: My Journey as an Entrepreneur One Month Before My 30th Birthday All my life I have been an entrepreneur. It’s something that runs in my family. It’s a mentality. A drive. It’s wanting the most out of life and creating something. I have always said that I wanted to be a millionaire by age 30. Five months ago I lost one of the most important people in my life. I can’t put 29 years of my whole journey into an article but I will list the most important lessons I have learned as an entrepreneur that can hopefully help those of you who are trying to start a business and be ‘successful.’ My name is Pablo Palatnik and I am the CEO of ShadesDaddy.com, currently one of the largest internet retailers of sunglasses in the world. For the past 12 years or so I have been obsessed with selling things online. I have many stories like that but that’s not what I’m here to write. Do What You Love – Love What You Do Cliche, right? You Don’t Know Everything Build a Good Team Around You If you think one person builds a company, you’re wrong…oh boy are you wrong. Find a Mentor

Internet Passion Creates Successful Young Entrepreneurs There is no question that some of the best opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs are in the Internet sector. Having a passion for creating something from nothing has led many young people to work in this quickly developing arena. Hurdles faced by entrepreneurs in the traditional business world, such as those relating to experience, education and financial resources, have been lowered or completely removed in the online world. In many ways, the advent of the World Wide Web has produced a blossoming of opportunities for young business people. Those who have tasted business success online at a relatively young age typically share some common characteristics, including: They Aren’t Afraid Of Hard Work As with most undertakings, the hallmark of success on the Internet is hours and hours of hard work. They Trust Themselves And Their Instincts Some Internet marketing entrepreneurs are told that they “can’t” many times along the way. They Are Willing To Take a Risk They Know Who They Are

BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is. Nick Hanauer, self-described "super-rich" entrepreneur, gave a pretty compelling TED Talk about how the middle class—not the super-rich—are the real job creators. But TED, which has released over 100 different political videos in the past, thought this one was too partisan and chose not to release it. We didn't notice any flaming partisanship in it. We normally love TED, and were surprised they didn't think this talk was TEDworthy. Under pressure from the Internets, TED finally relented and released the video. The National Journal led the initial charge pushing the controversy angle. Chris Anderson, from TED, offered this official response to the outcry and posted the talk for everyone to see. Next bit of Upworthiness:

Independent Book Store Provides The Same Services As Amazon The Harvard Book Store‘s new owner, former tech executive Jeff Mayersohn, is using digital content to enhance the bookstore as well as offering a speedy and inexpensive delivery service to local people. A recent article in Forbes explains: Essentially, Jeff installed a printing press to close the inventory gap with Amazon. The Espresso Book Machine sits in the middle of Harvard Book Store like a hi-tech visitor to an earlier era. A compact digital press, it can print nearly five million titles including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as out of print titles. We’re talking beautiful, perfect bound paperbacks indistinguishable from books produced by major publishing houses. This books on demand service gives customers access to previously inaccessible titles, books that are no longer under copyright, out-of-print, or hard to find titles, which can be requested and printed within minutes. Harvard Book Store

Learning How to Code to Build Your Business with Tim Raybould of Capography Tim Raybould is the CFO of TicketLeap, a venture capital backed startup that provides ticketing and box office solutions for event hosts, and recently founded Capography with the objective of replacing Excel as the standard tool that startups use to maintain their capitalization table. Capography saves companies time and money by making maintaining a capitalization table extremely easy. With no previous programming experience, Tim learned Ruby, built Capography himself and launched the company, all while working a full-time job! In my interview with Tim, he talks about how Capography can help entrepreneurs, provides great advice on learning how to code, starting a company without quitting your job, and raising seed stage funding.” Listen to the full interview: Podcast: Play in new window | Download Interview by: Mike helps startups through mid-size companies with capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and strategy. Awesome People + Awesome Places Category: Entrepreneur Interviews

Crear una empresa en 3 horas por 71 euros Cuando planteo por aquí que cualquiera puede crear un negocio en Internet y ofrecer sus servicios o algún producto siempre surge como excusa “es que hay que darse de alta como autónomo”. Y como estoy trabajando/estoy en paro ahora no puedo hacerlo. Y crear una empresa es peor porque hay que poner 3.000€ y estoy yo para poner 3.000€. Al final estos comentarios, y alguna conversación con alguno de los participantes en la iniciativa Cink Emprende , me han hecho adelantar algo que ya tenía previsto hacer de cara a mi proyecto de generar mi propio empleo en este año: crear una empresa allende nuestras fronteras. Es una idea a la que venía dándole vueltas desde hace tiempo, entre otras cosas por las “facilidades” que tienen en España los emprendedores. Constituir una empresa en España Supongamos que se te ocurre un negocio basado en Internet, algo simple, en el que los usuarios se dan de alta (y pagan) para recibir un curso online. - Pagar cada mes tu cuota de autónomo.

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