Brad Isaac, from achieve-it!, has a thought provoking article titled 10 Steps You Can Take To Guarantee Failure and he makes very valid points on how you can guarantee that you will not achieve your goals. However, being a positive kind of guy, and having learned a few years back from reading Bringing Out the [...]
Archive | May, 2006
Announcing a new Home Business Carnival
Today, I went out looking for a Home Business Carnival, but could not find one. So I created one! The home page for the carnival is at hosted here at Start a Side Business and entries can be submited at Blog Carnival. I purposefully kept the rules simple and I will try to fit as [...]
Analyzing ‘Side Business’ trends with Google Trends
A few days ago, Google released Google Trends. Basically, this is tool that can help you analyze how many people searched for a given Search Term over time. Where it gets really valuable is that it provides the ability to display several results when the search terms are separated by commas. Of course, this not [...]
Hardest lessons for startups?
In a talk at Startup School 2006, and later in a more developed essay Paul Graham lists what he sees as the most overlooked problems that plague most startups. In a nutshell, here’s his top 7: Release early Keep pumping out features Make users happy Fear the right thing Commitment is a self-fullfilling prophecy There [...]
Don’t be an employee
In his latest article on lifehacker, Keith Robinson gives his first impressions of what he has learned during the initial phase of starting his company. Here are my key takeaways on how it applies to starting your side business: Don’t be an employee:you’ve got to be thinking for yourself, and act like you are in [...]
