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Business

You’re Pretty Much Always Right

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In order to survive in business you need to be right, all the time. You need to be certain that your vision is clear. You need to be certain that your revenue model is sound. You need to be sure that you have a marketing, promotions and growth plan which will allow you to maintain a positive cash flow. You need to be right about your risk of unforeseen crisis, and you need to be right about your responses to these crisis’. If any of these things go wrong, you will find yourself on the street.

Maybe Corporate Life Isn’t For You?

By JC on March 2nd 2010 in Career 23 comments

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We’re all trained to be nothing but drones; we’re dispensable robots with the worst corporate culture I’ve ever experienced – everyone mopes around with a permanent upside-down smile. The only perk to my job was that I got to wear sweatpants every day. I really like wearing sweatpants.

Building an Untemplater Business

By Kendra Kinnison on February 25th 2010 in Entrepreneurship 20 comments

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Today, I own interests in 8 different ventures – in a variety of industries and at different levels of maturity. Some of my businesses are well on their way to supporting my Untemplater lifestyle, while others will take much longer and much more work to get there. For many of you, focusing your efforts on one business will be preferred. For the serial entrepreneurs among us (myself included), you’ll now have a framework to use to evaluate each business opportunity that comes your way.

Going going, back back…to school?

By Jon Yang on February 25th 2010 in Career 12 comments

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As passionate people, sometimes all it takes is an introduction to something we’ve never tried before to spark a new hobby, or even a new career. While it’s possible to learn gain new interests and new skills by meeting people, going online, or just fumbling around on your own, the structure and regimented pace of a class can help you commit the time to really learn instead of always putting it off for “next weekend.”

For those who don’t want to build the next Facebook

By Jun Loayza on February 23rd 2010 in Entrepreneurship 24 comments

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What if you don’t want to build the next Facebook. There are many ways to work for yourself; Chris Guillebeau’s Ebook describes how you can work for yourself and generate a small amount of income spread out through diversified companies.

It’s a job offer, don’t get your panties in a bunch

By Rich DeMatteo on February 17th 2010 in Career 28 comments

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How often have you seen people freak the hump out when they receive a job offer? All the time, right? I mean, I have. Each time I’ve received an offer, I’ve ran around screaming at people, dogs, even caterpillars telling them how “amazing” and “perfect” the job and company is.

The last thing I want to do is burst your bubble, but sometimes that excitement and optimism can greatly cloud your vision, resulting in you accepting and starting a job that really isn’t for you.

Your team is more important than the idea

By Jun Loayza on February 16th 2010 in Entrepreneurship 12 comments

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So far, you’ve identified a pain and verified your idea by speaking to investors, entrepreneurs, and potential customers. Entrepreneurship is not a one man show, so lets go find you some teammates that compliment your skills, your passion, and have the ability to lead your startup to success. After all, the number 1 reason an investor invests into a company is because they trust and believe in the startup team.

Are you the ideal candidate?

By Andre Charoo on February 9th 2010 in Career 19 comments

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Have you ever thought to yourself: “I would love to go that school, but they wouldn’t accept me”; or “I would love to apply to that position, but, I don’t fit their requirements”; or “I would love to start a company, but I don’t know if I have the skills necessary to do it”? At [...]

How to test if your startup idea will succeed

By Jun Loayza on February 9th 2010 in Entrepreneurship 29 comments

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On our previous post, we reasoned and gave examples of why it’s better to Solve a Pain than to Follow Your Passion.  Now that you have taken a week to develop some ideas for solving pains in your life, it’s time to put them to the test. The smart entrepreneur never charges into battle without [...]